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The Trump administration moves to roll back the clock on housing discrimination.
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At The Roanoke Times, Betsy Biesenbach pens an eloquent rebuke to those who profess that flying the Stars and Bars is “about heritage, not hate”; she notes that symbols cannot be detached from what they symbolize.
A snippet; follow the link for the rest:
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Kyle Whitfield looks at an Alabama candidate’s recent campaign ad and concludes that some things never change.
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Strange doings in the State of Washington harkening back to Ammon Bundy’s occupation of a national wildlife refuge three years ago. Here’s just a bit from the story; follow the link for the rest.
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The Rude One dismembers Nikki Haley’s defense of the Stars and Bars. (Warning: Language, all of it warranted.)
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Celebrating a white Christmas, the Alabama way: Kyle Whitmire of AL.com comments.
Here’s a bit:
Now the Alabama Supreme Court says obscuring that monument is illegal.
Follow the link for much, much more.
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In The American Scholar, Robin Kirk, who served on a committee about Confederate monuments for the city of Durham, North Carolina, considers the import and future of those monuments to treason. Here’s a tiny little bit, in which he discusses the toppling of the statue that led to that committee (emphasis added):
I commend the article to your attention. It’s a long read, but a worth-while one.
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At Psychology Today Blogs, Thomas Hills looks at the impeachment inquiry and partisanship and the factors that are contributing to the latter.
Here’s a snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest. It is worth your while.
The implication may be that no one has objective access to the truth and all sides are equally wrong. However, that is the wrong take-home message.
The “there is no truth” argument is of course exactly what the guilty side of any argument would like you to believe. . . .
Elsewhere in the article, he argues that the roots of this political conflict go back to the Vietnamese War.
I think he’s right about the roots being in a war, but he missed the war by about 100 years.
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The Charlotte Observer reports on racists who mail it in.
Be sure to watch the video, even if you don’t read the whole article.
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At The American Scholar, Elizabeth D. Samet takes a deep look at the history and meaning of the South’s Confederate monuments and the recent raising of a monument to Ulysses S. Grant at West Point. An excerpt:
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Facing South takes a deep dive into North Carolina’s gerrymandering and, in particular, how it has affected judicial elections. It seems that North Carolina Republicans have decided that, if you can’t win ’em, gerrymander ’em.
An excerpt:
The effort to redraw judicial election districts began in the spring of 2017, when (Former state Rep. Justin–ed.) Burr introduced a plan to quickly redraw districts for judges and prosecutors around the state. An early map would have placed more than half of the state’s black district court judges in a district with another incumbent, according to NC Policy Watch.
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I fear that Alby may have a point.
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Thom reflects on the return of overt racism to public discourse and muses as to what extent “social” media has contributed to it.