If Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum defeats Rep. Ron DeSantis to become Florida’s next Governor on November 6, it will be an embarrassing defeat for Donald Trump and the Fox News fiends supporting the Republican’s campaign. It will be a tremendous victory for Sen. Bernie Sanders and those who have persuasively argued that the Democratic Party […]
Trayvon Martin
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The ICE-men Cometh: Trump’s Wrath Towards Dreamers
If nothing is done to help the Dreamers before then, March 5th will be remembered as a national day of shame.
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What Would Martin Say to Mia?
That loud sound you heard yesterday was not another false ballistic missile alert, but the noise of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rolling over in his grave as Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) very tepidly criticized Donald Trump on CNN’s State of the Union. Rep. Love had a look of absolute fear on her face, as […]
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The Cost of One’s Soul
Sometimes people have to be explicitly told they’re not wanted around–and even then, they still don’t seem to get it. Yes, there was plenty of morbid humor to be derived this week from the travails of now-former White House staffer and one-time reality-TV star Omarosa Manigault, ousted from what appeared to be a make-work position […]
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After Charlottesville, A Time for Choosing
C’mon everybody This is your life I’m talking about a revolution We gotta organize We don’t need no segregation We don’t need no race New age revelation? I think we got a case –Prince, “Sexuality,” 1981 You know who you are. Not the white nationalists, the all-wrong “alt-right,” the folks who want to make America […]
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Another Brick in the Wall: The End of Black and Latino Republicanism
Remember Marco Gutierrez, the right-wing hack who hitched his sorry star to Donald Trump last year? Gutierrez gained infamy when he told MSNBC’s Joy Reid: My culture is a very dominant culture. It is imposing and it’s causing problems. If you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner. […]
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Gone Too Soon
It has been five years…but it could have happened yesterday. It could happen again tomorrow. February 26 will be the fifth anniversary of the slaughter of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old Florida resident who was slain by a member of the “neighborhood watch” who assumed he was a criminal. Martin’s death triggered a national conversation–one that […]
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A Silent Scream at Standing Rock
Stop being surprised by how little coverage the Dakota Access Pipeline protests are receiving in US broadcast and cable media. As I noted last month, were it not for Lawrence O’Donnell and Joy Reid of MSNBC, the efforts by the self-described “water protectors” of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to prevent Energy Transfer Partners–the parent […]
