Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2020

Who will Trump's cultists blame when they finally understand they've been conned?

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(Be aware:  NAC is going away soon ) Donald Trump's entire "career" in and out of politics has been one long, sustained confi...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

BOOKS: George Yancy's Backlash.

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Let's take a brief break from music to mention recent reading. I've made reference to George Yancy's Backlash on more than o...
Friday, August 28, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Structural racism, white fragility, and my old school.

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In my previous life as a thoughtful and periodically fashionable essayist, one forever attuned to local foibles and frivolity, there’d be...
Friday, August 21, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: When love and hate collide – or, my father and the governor.

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"A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's t...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER: This three-hour documentary film about George Corley Wallace is a must-watch.

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I didn't expect to embark this week upon a long-delayed detour through the life of George C. Wallace (1919-1998) in order to process w...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Idiot Wind.

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Look, everyone -- Mayor Greg Fischer is becoming famous for incompetence all over the world! Bourbonism know longer means what you thou...
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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Sunday Fact Fest, Episode 01: Racism is "The Lingering Legacy of America's First Cookie-Cutter Suburb."

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Looks like Hell for Certain, at least to me. The Lingering Legacy of America's First Cookie-Cutter Suburb , by Winnie Lee ( Atlas ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Texas Rangers? "The team’s name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen."

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Something else I've learned today. The argument is convincing. Just call the team the Texas Horny Toads from now on, and be done with...
Friday, July 10, 2020

More dismal than Ayn Rand? "Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics."

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Photo credit: Slate . Meet the man credited with public choice theory -- which means being given little real choice when it comes to ol...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Master race? Look at them. I see better specimens floating in the toilet each morning.

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Three men indicted in the death of Ahmaud Arbery ( CNN ) The sooner they rot, the better. In the meantime, gimme some plywood and a ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: I suppose even the racists, fascists and bad actors need their own craft brewery.

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Among other things, COVID-19 has proven to be the most effective (albeit inadvertent) truth serum of my lifetime. The virus is especial...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

COVID-19 has Dixie on its mind.

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Just because Charlie Daniels has become a filter-less spittoon of repellent MAGA dogma in his old age DOESN'T mean he didn't make...
Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude's video clip: "This is us."

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"Eddie Glaude, the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, speaks to American culture, racism i...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Losing basketball games to dogs, or why "This Is Going to Get Worse."

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Burmila's thoughts are angry, gloomy, dark and largely accurate -- and the melancholy isn't confined to Trumpism. This is Goin...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: I'm a citizen of the universe, but I can't take a photo to save my life.

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While lounging at Pints&union on a recent Saturday afternoon I found myself chatting with estimable local photographer David Modica. ...
Thursday, June 06, 2019

On abortion, a few more links to add to the blog omnibus.

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I have a few links to add to the post of May 17. On abortion, a blog omnibus:  Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days and other thought...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Lisa Gill's clueless anti-Semitism? It's in the water -- and the most offensive term of all just might be "politician."

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I've never met Jeffersonville city council representative Lisa Gill, but last week she pushed the wrong button -- more than once. ...