Scene between the National Guard and Black men, Chicago Race Riot, 1919
Tag: race
I recently read Charles Blow’s new book, where he urges Black northerners to move back South to concentrate their political power. It’s a super book and LGM readers should check it out. On
This is just sad given the history of baseball among Black Americans. Looking around Memorial Stadium before Game 1 of the 1983 World Series, Philadelphia Phillies star Gary Matthews saw a lot of Blac
This piece on how whites, especially those without college educations, are willing and happy to end American democracy to protect white supremacy has gotten a lot of attention. That’s good, but it misses the bigger point. This is not the first time American whites have ended up democracy in order to protect white supremacy. The […]
Has anything changed in the last half-century in the reality of American segregation. Not really. It’s just de facto instead of de jure. After all, Connor and Maddie really do deserve the best s
History is a battle between sides wanting to tell different stories. Some of those sides stand for justice. Others stand for repression. At Montpelier, James Madison’s home in Virginia, those wh
I never expect anything from the cops, but this is hardly different these days then, say, attempting to write a history book that people will read about slavery and having fascists cry about “critical race theory.” The city of Fort Lauderdale has fired its police chief Larry Scirotto, who has been in office for less […]
There is a very long history of whites passing as non-whites when it works for them. Rachel Dolezal is perhaps the most infamous example of this in recent years but there are many others. One question
There’s been this weird shift in LGM comments, especially since the elections last month in Virginia, that telling the truth about society is bad because it alienates voters. There’s even
The backlash politics that have dominated the nation since 1968 and have only gotten worse since 2008 constantly force Democrats to try to appease whites. But given that both working class whites and rich whites are now basically a fascist force, what’s the point? In other words, how much do we hurt people of color […]
Is this a Cleetus safari? It might be. But we do have to figure out what on earth is going on in south Texas, with its amazing and horrifying transformation from being a Hillary stronghold in 2016 to
Don’t little Maddie and Connor just deserve the best education, by which I mean not having too many of those kids in class with them? I can’t imagine anything as important as that…..