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At The Charlotte Observer, Justin Perry notes that

. . . In a speech last month at the conservative AmFest 2025, Vice President JD Vance said “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”

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.

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At the Las Vegas Sun, Eric Foster decodes de code.

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Via The Sacramento Bee, LZ Granderson reminds us that the Founders lied to themselves as well as others. He points out that

The only way to justify writing “all men are created equal” while maintaining an economic system that represented the antithesis of Montesquieu’s teachings (that slavery was wrong–ed.), was to tell future generations of Americans a fairy tale that people of color were savages without virtue – or even better, to convey that they didn’t even need to be acknowledged or considered.

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.

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Sam and the crew point out that the Trump maladministration’s racism is in plain sight.

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Thom explains how Nixon’s southern strategy came full circle and consumed today’s Republican Party.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

A century and a half ago, men dressed up in masks to terrorize, capture, torture, and sometimes kill folks whose skin was darker than theirs.

And today, men are again dressing up in masks to terrorize, capture, torture, and sometimes kill folks whose skin is darker than theirs.

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*Mark Twain.

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Via the Washington Monthly, Paul Finkelman looks at Donald Trump’s proposed immigration “policy” changes and hears a rhyme from the past. Here’s a tiny bit (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.

Beginning with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the U.S. established a pattern of limiting immigration and naturalization based on race, ethnicity, and geographic origin. In 1924, Congress severely limited total immigration, preventing it entirely from some countries, such as Japan and China, and dramatically curbing it from southern, eastern, and central Europe. For more than a century, the U.S. has been a haven for those fleeing persecution, war, famine, and disaster. The Statue of Liberty still had on her pedestal the words “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” However, the Immigration Act of 1924 closed the doors to America for most of those huddled masses.

And the Trump maladministration moves to close that door once more.

America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to rationalize it continue to take their toll.

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*Mark Twain.

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ICE agents taking black man into custody.  Man says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Via the Sacramento Bee, Stephen Mihm hears a rhyme from another time when America closed the golden door to huddled masses yearning to breathe free because they just weren’t white enough.

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*Mark Twain.

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The evidence continues to mount that Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” has come full circle and that today’s Republican Party is the party of the Secesh.

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    Thom hears a rhyme
    From another time
    When men in hoods
    Roamed the woods,
    With crosses ablaze
    Through nights and days.

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*Mark Twain.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Anita Chabria conjugates the latest con from Donald Trump’s Ministry of Truth.

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The Trump maladmnistration wants them darkies to know their place.

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Stray Thought 0

Today’s Republican Party does not want to govern.

It wants to dictate.

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At the Washington Monthly, Richard D. Kahlenberg peers behind the sheets of a recent action of the Trump maladministration and concludes that

Trump’s new enemy appears to be racial diversity itself . . . .

Follow the link to find out why he reached that conclusion.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The Secesh are rising again after all these years, but doing so oh so politely.

Jarvis McKenzie was simply waiting for his work ride at 5:30 a.m. on July 24 when a white man fired a rifle over his head and yelled “you better get running, boy!”

Details at the link.

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Profiles in Kowtowing 0

Man cutting grass in front of the Supreme Court.  Voice from inside the court says,

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Trumpling History 0

Family in the Smithsonian in an exhibit room adorned with stocks, whips, shackles, nooses, and the like.  Man reads from legend,

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Sam talks with Ari Berman about how John Roberts’s Supreme Supremacist Court has been working to gut the Voting Rights Act that, per the Encyclopedia Britannica, “aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.”

America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to take its toll.

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David comments on Donald Trump’s efforts to whitewash–you will pardon the expression–America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the doctrine of racial superiority that was fabricated to rationalize it.

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