This incredibly insightful article from the Atlantic might explain why there are so many items for me to report week after week after week after week. It’s long but well worth your time. The Nationalist’s Delusion One hundred thirty-nine years since Reconstruction, and half a century since the tail end of the civil-rights movement, a … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 9
Author: Eva Paterson
This Week in White Supremacy (and Misogyny): Week 8
The first item on this list was so appalling that I had to add it. Trump gleefully predicts death of two women on Supreme Court. Trump nominee Brett Talley appears to have defended the first KKK. Facebook (still) letting housing advertisers exclude users by race. Trump nominates mostly white men to federal bench. White man … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy (and Misogyny): Week 8
Oppose the Tax Bill: Campaign Finance Reform is a Civil Rights Issue
Governor Gray Davis. Remember him? He was recalled in 2003 and replaced by The Terminator, yet another person from the world of entertainment who thought he could govern. When Gray Davis was Governor, the California Legislature passed a bill that would have required law enforcement officers to keep records of the race of those stopped. … Continue reading Oppose the Tax Bill: Campaign Finance Reform is a Civil Rights Issue
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 7
Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends. The health crisis of Latinas and Black women. A Black working class man would have to call 80 therapists to get an appointment. A middle class white woman, only 5. What is wrong with this picture? Meet the moguls-in-the-making as THR unveils its 24th annual list … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 7
This Is Us
No, this is not about “the Big Three”, Kevin, Kate, and Randall - although I love that show. This morning I read that college educated women and people of color were responsible for the electoral victories that repudiated Trump and, more importantly, Trumpism. A year ago, I was in a hotel in Reno. Comey’s ugly … Continue reading This Is Us
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 6
ICE targets Cambodian community. Advancing Justice files class action lawsuit . Paul Manafort helped implement the notorious GOP southern strategy in 1980 by arranging for candidate Ronald Reagan to speak at Mississippi’s Neshoba County Fair, which is seven miles from where civil rights workers Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney were murdered by white supremacists in 1964. In late … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 6
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 5
John Kelly asserts that the Civil War could have been avoided if people had been willing to “compromise.” He defends Robert E. Lee on the basis of states' rights. Border Patrol Detained A 10-Year-Old Undocumented Girl With Cerebral Palsy After Her Surgery. Nurses returning from Puerto Rico accuse the federal government of leaving people to … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 5
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 4
Greetings, Between the EJS 17th annual Gala, Puerto Rico, DACA betrayal, and kneeling football players, it has been hard to keep track of the madness. Here goes. 1. Immigration raids in sweep of sanctuary cities. 2. Racial slurs are painted on the walls of buildings in the Air Force Academy. 3. Flint, Michigan - State … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 4