The Secesh category archive
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Thom comments on the Trump maladministration’s persecution of Ilhan Omar and the implications thereof.
Aside:
I’m a Southern boy. I grew up under Jim Crow. I went to segregated schools. I know naked racism when I see it.
This is naked racism.
Originalist Sin 0
“Originalist” Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has just published a new book, So Ordered, a defense of the doctrine of Constitutional originalism (a misnomer if there ever was one, but I digress). At the legal website, Balls and Strikes, Madiba K. Dennie debunks de bunk.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As I have observed before, Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and consumed today’s Republican Party. As further evidence, in a longer article about the Trump maladministration’s pursuit of Ilhan Omar, Michelle Goldberg notes, almost in passing, the obvious:
For Trump and his movement, real Americans are defined by race and ancestry.
Follow the link for the context of her comment.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
David points out that the racism of today’s Republican Party is now out in the open.
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Thom explains how Doanld Trump’s campaign against Haitian immigrants is rooted in racism and how the Republican-controlled Supreme Supremacist Court chose not to see the truth when it was right there in front of their faces.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority manufactured to legitimize it continue to exact their toll.
American Stasi 0
Starting with a video of an American WWII veteran, who says that he fought against concentration camps 80 years ago only to see them being established now in his own country, Rick Strom reviews a litany of abuses by the Trump maladministration’s hooded KKK secretive police.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As my old professor of the early fedeeral period was fond of pointing out, “History is irony.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jackie Calmes details how Donald Trump is making racism great again.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice that todays Supreme Supremacist Court has openly exchanged its robes black robes for white (my phrasing, not his).
No summary or excerpt can do his piece justice (just like today’s Supreme Supremacist Court can’t seem to do justic–oh, never mind). Just go read it.
American Stasi, Privatization Scam Dept. 0
Scripps News’s Patrick Terpstra follows the money. A snippet:
ICE was bringing them to Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest immigration detention center. An obscure company called Acquisition Logistics LLC won a $1.2 billion no-bid contract to stand up the soft-sided facilities designed to house thousands of migrants.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
An excerpt:
A society moving forward doesn’t need to erase its history. It needs to understand it . . . .
The Past as Prologue 0
Phenix S Halley steps into the Wayback Machine and offers a glimpse of the America that the Trump maladministration would make great again.
Afterthought:
It’s the America I grew up in.
I don’t want to go back.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Field explains why today’s Republican Party is determined to gut out the vote.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
I’m a Southern boy. I grew up under Jim Crow and attended segregated schools. I know how to decode de code.
Today’s Republican Party wants to bring those days back.
Indeed, they’re not even trying to you-will-pardon-the-expression white wash it any more.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
If you don’t like historical fact, well, heck, just go with historical fiction.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald grieves the Supreme Supremacist Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. He notes the role that events in Alabama, from Selma to church bombings to the murder of civil rights activists, had in leading to the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s, then laments:
That Alabama would erase the brave, peaceful, legacies of Lewis and Martin Luther King and so many more is not surprising. That the federal courts would ignore those moments of hard fought freedom, the acts that gave meaning to the promise of equality, is something else.
It is heartbreaking, a halt to the progress of the 20th century, a twisting of the arc of the universe away from its just destination.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom talks with David Daley about the Supreme Supremacist Court’s efforts to gut the Voting Rights Act and the legal fictions created to you-will-pardon-the-expression white wash the ruling.