Culture Warriors category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald takes issue with Donald Trump’s recent claims that white persons were badly treated after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. A snippet:
Or to believe it.
Because the Civil Rights Act – the Movement itself – didn’t just make life better for Black people. It made life better for poor white people too, no matter what the anger mongers might say. It gave them voice in elections and the tools to compete in the marketplace. It broke down walls and made America better. Particularly in places like my home.
His entire article is worth the few moments it will take you to read it.
Aside:
Trump’s remark provides another bit of evidence that Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party.
Foxy Shady 0
Sam and the crew delight in a Fox News interview that goes absolutely not how Fox wanted it to go.
American Stasi 0
He’s an American citizen, but he looked as if he might just possibly could be of Hispanic descent, so ICE agents rammed his car.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme. Here’s bit of the cadence:
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*Mark Twain.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
The killing of a Minneapolis woman, Renee Good, by an ICE agent this week, was a tragedy, due to a situation created by Trump as a political stunt and a show of force in a state that he lost in the last election, all aimed at getting revenge on Governor Walz, who has called Trump out as a dangerous, power-mad, corrupt and petty fascist.
While it is impossible to know what went on in the mind of the ICE agent as he fired multiple times, at close range, into Good’s car, I find Kristy Noem’s version of events hard to believe. Based upon what I saw on video of the event, I imagined my own narrative of what might possibly transpire in a similar situation. My version seems as likely as the version created and pushed by the government.
Misdirection Play, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Sal Rodriguez discusses that furor over welfare fraud in Minnesota. He notes that, though Somali immigrants are being targeted by the Trump maladministration, (emphasis added)
The founder of the organization, a white American named Aimee Bock, was convicted of her crimes. Dozens of others involved in the scheme have pled guilty. Most of those involved were of Somali background.
So why, one wonders, are Somalis getting all the blame publicity? Rodriguez suggests that the answer is quite simple:
Methinks the full article. is worth your while.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At The Charlotte Observer, Justin Perry notes that
Then Perry masterfully dissects the duplicitous thinking behind Vance’s remark.
His piece is worth the two or three minutes it will take to read.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Eric Foster decodes de code.
American Stasi 0
From the Youtube page:
A Texas federal judge wasn’t buying ICE’s story after bodycam footage exposed a wildly exaggerated arrest. In a scathing ruling, the Bush-appointed judge blasted DHS for pushing a “largely fictional” case that could’ve sent a Honduran immigrant to prison for 20 years — all after an agent injured himself while smashing a car window. The case was thrown out, but the disturbing implications for civil rights and unchecked immigration enforcement remain. Rick Strom breaks it down.
American Stasi 0
From the Youtube page:
While anyone even suspected of being an undocumented immigrant is facing the threat of violence from Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s ICE agents at any moment, U.S. citizens, as predicted, are also getting caught up in the lawlessness these thugs are operating with and are becoming victims of the same brutality as their fellow community members. Rick Strom breaks it down.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via The Sacramento Bee, LZ Granderson reminds us that the Founders lied to themselves as well as others. He points out that
He goes on to remind us that that lie persists–indeed, is being perpetuated–today. He argues persuasively that the Trump maladministration’s attempt to eradicate DEI is yet another attempt to (you will pardon the expression) whitewash America’s history.
Follow the link for more examples of the whitewashing.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, Jodi Bondi Norgaard expresses concern over the ethnic and national slurs, invective, and insults that have become routine under Donald Trump and his maladministration. She has qualms about what this behavior may portend.
Methinks her concerns may not be misplaced. A snippet:
So we must ask, as citizens and as humans: What kind of society do we want?
The Rule of Lawless 0
Harvard law professor Noah Feldman argues that
Follow the link for the evidence.
Republican Family Values 0
Writing at The Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law, reminds us that mean for the sake of mean seems to have become the overriding Republican family value. Here’s how he opens his piece:
The entire article is worthy of your attention.
