Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

Opinions

The Farce of July

     This social malady is present in the jokes about nooses and the insistence of those who tell them. Forget that there have been thousands of lynching’s and that the racialized terror continues to traumatize communities of color. This buffoonery insists that it is not racist to joke, even when the jokes are about hate crimes. Some are inspired to mock the murder of George Floyd, posting photos of themselves kneeling on each other’s necks to mimic the murder of George Floyd, or to make jokes about not being able to breathe…

Opinions

The Language of Vote Suppression

The language of vote suppression has played a crucial role since emancipation placed the issue of suffrage, the suffrage of a newly emancipated people, at the forefront of public debate.