Our New Postracial Myth, by Ibram X. Kendi
"Just as you can recognize an impoverished country by its widespread poverty, you can recognize a racist country by its widespread racial inequity."
Michelle Alexander’s Brilliant Intro to “Beyond Vietnam”
"We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy.”
Before George Floyd—Dred Scott in Minnesota
"In 1857, on March 6th, Dred Scott was found to be "not a person." This finding by the Supreme Court of the United States was ridiculed inside the country and abroad."
Chris Hedges | The Return of American Race Laws
The central tenet of fascism is always that war cleanses society and that the “virtues” that war inculcates in its combatants and survivors provide a new moral vigor.
Chris Hedges | The Return of American Race Laws
The central tenet of fascism is always that war cleanses society and that the “virtues” that war inculcates in its combatants and survivors provide a new moral vigor.
Freedom Rider: Fighting for Southern Human Rights by Margaret Kimberly
The South, where more than half of the Black U.S. population lives, has based its economic appeal on the stinginess of its social safety net, the relative poverty of its people, and the savagery of its criminal justice system. Capitalism truly turns morality upside down. By Margaret Kimberly Black Agenda Report December 14, 2016 Mississippi More
Greg Palast | The Election was Stolen – Here’s How
Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives.
Chris Hedges | The New Slave Revolt
These striking prisoners are far more effective, and far more threatening to the corporate state, than the outside multitudes entranced and manipulated by the Donald Trump andHillary Clinton Goon Show.
Marjorie Cohn | Trump’s Blindness Toward Slavery, Jim Crow
The head of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent compared police killings of African-Americans in the United States to lynchings.
The Crisis: Where Is the World Headed?
Capitalist values are also antithetical to democratic ones. Like Christian ethics, the principles of republican government require us to consider the interests of others. Capitalism, which entails the single-minded pursuit of profit, would have us believe that it’s every man for himself.