This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital.
This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
in her former life Megyn Kelly led the cheers at the old-timey lynchings. blond, pony-tailed, peppy, all-American Christian girl-next-door screaming "Lynch them! Kill them! We know we are better than you are--we are WHITE. Dark skins! Die!"
Everyone should note how frightened white supremacists are of American
history. This is an acknowledgment of the power of just the memory of Harriet Tubman & other heroic figures in our collective past.
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
COMMENTARY: Gov. Jared Polis (D) removed a standard line from Tina Peters' clemency letter which reads: "I believe you will be successful upon your release."
If Peters is successful in helping President Trump overthrow American elections, that will be Polis' legacy.
America is not really a constitutional republic because discriminating against Black people is a violation of the 14th amendment, and that didn’t stop Jim Crow, or modern day efforts to make Black people second class citizens
The Voting Rights Act was built on an assumption by its authors (primarily Abe Fortas and Nicholas Katzenbach) that the South would only act in racist ways if allowed to and so had to be stopped from doing so at all times forever, and holy shit was that assumption dead on. -OS