As I write, Washington D.C. is an armed camp. 25,000 National Guard members are ready to defend the U.S. Capitol during Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony on January 20. Meanwhile, people are still dying of COVID-19. Incoming President Joe Biden is...
Ayanna Pressley
White People Have Denied That They Are Racist For a Long Time
After Donald Trump told U.S Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, Tlaib, and Omar to “go back” to their own countries, I heard and read a lot of conservatives say something similar to Fox News commentator Brit Hume: Trump’s “go back” comments were...
Trump is Manufacturing Racial Fears
Peter Beinart, writing at The Atlantic, is on to something when he writes, “In the past, the president riled up his base by exploiting violent incidents in the news. Now he just manufactures his own controversies.” Here is a taste of...
Trump Has Found His Ticket(s) to Relection
Trump has been waiting for a moment like this. After watching some of his rally last night in Greenville, North Carolina, it is clear that the president thinks he has found his path to re-election in 2020. Trump hopes to...
Does Donald Trump Want Frederick Douglass to Go Back to Where He Came From?
Some of you may remember that Donald Trump thinks Frederick Douglass, ex-slave-turned-abolitionist, is still alive. Douglass is not only alive, but he is doing “an amazing job.” (I am not sure if any corrected him on this. For the record,...
759,935 American Voters Pulled a Lever for Members of “The Squad” in 2018
In 2018: 110,318 voters in New York’s 14th Congressional District voted for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This district is 18.41% white. 267,703 voters in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District voted for Ilhan Omar. The district is 67.39% white. 165,355 voters in Michigan’s 13th...