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Boy, talk about racial profiling. Because only racism explains white cops breaking up a typical fight at a suburban mall by comforting the white teen while cuffing the Black one… The viral video clearly shows the (bigger) white kid was the aggressor. Moreover, it shows him on top pummeling the Black kid when two white… Read more.
Graduate students use Critical Race Theory (CRT) to examine the myriad ways race and the legacy of racism affect a person’s life experiences in America, especially with respect to education, employment, housing, healthcare, and the criminal justice system. But Republican propagandists have reframed it as a liberal plot to impose the guilt of 19th century… Read more.
And nobody can deny that it has worked like a charm… Remember that purportedly incriminating call on which he was caught telling the president of Ukraine, “you need to do me a favor, though”? Or the far more incriminating one on which he was caught telling Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, “I just want to… Read more.
The prevailing view is that Whoopi Goldberg chose a Jewish stage name to curry favor with the Jews she believes hold all the power in Hollywood. But I always thought she chose it to identify with them as a fellow race of people who have been perennially oppressed by white folks. Then came this: On… Read more.
Trust me, Donald Trump, Howard Stern, and Vince McMahon have nothing on Joe Rogan when it comes to rich, savvy guys peddling raw and (often) reckless entertainment to ordinary people. And, notwithstanding giving performer Neil Young top billing, I used to like propagandist Joe Rogan. Granted, my affinity stems from his relatively wholesome days hosting… Read more.
To his victims and their sympathizers, teenager Kyle Rittenhouse is a White vigilante who committed double murder. To his defenders, he’s a folk hero who lived out their gun-rights fantasies. Rittenhouse acquitted Gun violence has become such a feature of American life that no one should be surprised that a jury acquitted Rittenhouse. But the following from a CNN… Read more.
There seems no denying that, the more Donald Trump humiliates Republican men, the more they seem to want to kiss his ass. This has been the most stupefying feature of American politics since 2016. Senator Ted Cruz infamously put a fetishistic twist on cuckoldry in this regard that is just too perverse for words. Of… Read more.
America is experiencing the spasms of an increasingly kinetic (second) civil war. So think whatever you will of Russian ransomware attacks and Chinese rhetorical bullying. The only things Americans have to fear are Americans themselves. And “the culture wars” now raging over things like Critical Race Theory and the National Anthem should be far from… Read more.
President Trump reportedly thought his MAGA insurrectionists looked too much like a motley crew of rowdy rednecks. He was pissed. He wanted them to look more organized and uniform, you know, like Hitler’s Brownshirts (aka Storm Troopers). Trump’s disdain for his Rednecks Never before in the history of politics has a leader shown such overt disdain for… Read more.
Christie, the commentator Chris Christie, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, is a regular commentator on the top-rated Sunday talk show This Week. On today’s episode, he and fellow commentators discussed Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the presidential election to Joe Biden. Here’s the indignant way Christie chimed in: The conduct of the president’s… Read more.
