2021 archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Dan Patrice suggests that renting out the National Guard to the highest bidder is not a good thing. A snippet (emphasis added):
Follow the link for context.
Making Memories 0
A Connecticut high school student added more memories to her yearbook, as well as got her portrait taken again–full-face and profile. Here’s a bit of the story:
According to a Glastonbury Police Department report, school administrators in May “reported the discovery of an Adolf Hitler quote which was incorrectly attributed to George Floyd,” the Minnesota man killed last year by police.
We are a society of stupider.
The Slave Patrol Amendment 0
Sam, Emma, and Howard University Professor Carol Anderson discuss the true origins of the Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
Aside:
When I was in college, I worked a summer job with my local health department for three years. The health department’s facility had two men’s rooms, two women’s rooms, and two water fountains. It took me a while to realize that they were legacies of Jim Crow–that, at one point, they had been labeled “White” and “Colored.”
Later on, I remember my father’s saying to me shortly before he passed away, “I’m glad those days are gone,” in a clear reference to the Jim Crow segregation that both he and I grew up in.
But those days are not gone. merely in uneasy abeyance, and there are many that would bring them back.
The Apology 0
CNN’s Jim Acosta admits a mistake.
That’s a great point, comparing Trump to a clown is most definitely an insult to clowns.
Follow the link for the rest.
Do the Math 0
This doesn’t add up. The protest is in no way based on reality, but it does show how susceptible some persons are to right-wing lies and race-baiting.
We are a society of stupid.
And of the hate-full.
