On 17 October 1961, a peaceful protest by Algerian migrants in the Paris region was met with overwhelming police force.
Tag: racism
Well this seems bad: In the assistant principal’s office at Hobgood, the officer telling Garrett not to get the kids was Chris Williams. Williams, who is Black, had been a Murfreesboro cop for five
Very interesting piece on how the story we tell about redlining and postwar housing loans is a bit more complicated than previously discussed. But new research shows that the maps very probably did no
Texas’ Stasi-like Republican Party has also sought to fire any educator teaching about racism under the scare words of CRITICAL RACE THEORY. They have done so. But that also leads to backlash when people realize that their beloved teacher or principal has been fired for doing such things as discussing slavery. Take the not so […]
I have no interest in playing Oppression Olympics. What happened to Gabby Petito is horrible and should spark a national conversation on domestic violence. However, those who point out that the media
Wow, who could have guessed? Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outs
In a racist society, science and technology and medicine automatically becomes racist in practice. It’s not just the Tuskegee Experiments either. Here is a grotesque and horrifying example of this right now. Jordan Crowley was born with only one shrunken kidney to clean his blood. As he gets older, his one kidney gets sicker. Jordan […]
I can’t believe that no one has posted this on the front page yet.
Huh, funny how this continues to happen. When Sabrina Hendricks was about to start fifth grade at Walker Upper Elementary School in Charlottesville, she got upset after finding out that most of her fr
At the core of all policing in the United States is pure, unadulterated racism. Lots of white liberals don’t want to believe this. But the historical evidence in favor of this point is pretty overwhelming. From slave patrols to locking Black people up for “vagrancy” during Reconstruction to the War on Drugs, it’s been a […]
A year since the murder of George Floyd and the biggest Black Lives Matter protests yet, white support for Black lives has….declined. In both cases, the deterioration in support is noteworthy be
One of the most remarkable battles in the culture war is presently happening in Austin, with basically a full-fledged war happening between liberal current students and Black football players at the U