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Guilty, Guilty, Guilty… And so it went, as the judge read 9 of 9 guilty verdicts for Travis McMichael, the first, and clearly most guilty, of three men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. But I suspect many Blacks (and, to be fair, many whites) were so relieved after hearing that first guilty verdict, they probably… Read more.
Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders football team hours after The New York Times detailed emails in which he had made homophobic and misogynistic remarks, following an earlier report of racist statements about a union leader [‘Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires,’ Gruden wrote about… Read more.
Canada’s aboriginal sin America has been reckoning with the legacy of its “original sin” for centuries. This reckoning has been notorious – and often deadly. But it might surprise many to learn that Canada has been reckoning with the legacy of its “aboriginal sin” for just as long. This reckoning, however, has been tame and relatively suppressed. Indeed, it’s easy to… Read more.
I have written many commentaries effectively ridiculing the culture at Fox News as a cross between those dramatized in The Stepford Wives and Peyton Place. Here for example is what I wrote in “Women Complain Fox News Head, Roger Ailes, Has Dick for Brains,” July 20, 2016: _________ Close friends will tell you that I… Read more.
Much is being made about the disparate impact Covid-19 is having on black communities throughout the United States. No less a person than the surgeon general highlighted this in black and white during a recent White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing. It was notable enough that Surgeon General Jerome Adams was the only black on… Read more.
Donald Trump’s record of racism dates back decades. He sowed it in the 1970s in joint ventures with his daddy to discriminate against blacks seeking to rent in their apartment buildings. And, with all due respect to his birther conspiracy, he reaped it most notoriously in the late 1980s in full-page newspaper ads, in which… Read more.
The Dalai Lama is the most famous migrant in history. Of course, he’s a self-professed holy man. So you’d think he would be using his moral authority to support migrants everywhere. But nothing could be further from the truth. The Dalai Lama is an anti-migrant hypocrite [H]e said that refugees to the European Union should ultimately return home,… Read more.
Of course, only an asshole like him would do so. President Trump’s dismissal of Haiti, El Salvador and all of Africa as ‘shithole countries’ whose inhabitants are not desirable for U.S. immigration shocked people around the world and provoked swift condemnation. The president made the remarks Thursday during a White House meeting with lawmakers and suggested… Read more.
During a 2007 “pilgrimage” to Serbia, I visited several towns on the outskirts of Belgrade. In each one, I got the impression that mine was the first (real) black face people living there had ever seen. They invariably greeted me with stares, which made me feel like a Martian visiting Earth for the first time.… Read more.
