The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to end affirmative action in higher education is much more than just a bad ruling; this is an embarrassment on a global scale.
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The “Ivy League” is a group of slavery-infected institutions that will be happy to abide by court rulings that would decrease the admittance of Black students.
Democrats are fighting a political war with worn out tools. I don’t advocate that we stoop to the levels that Republicans have but I do suggest that a real reassessment be taken so that we can start winning again.
A year in which there are only three races for governor’s seats, all in the Deep South, wouldn’t normally create a lot of political speculation. Kentucky’s popular Democratic incumbent may have a tough race, and chalking up Louisiana and its neighbor to the east to a Republican would be typical conventional wisdom.
Imposing their holier than thou views, folk who have done everything but licked lightning want to create an unrealistic world view.
Voter suppressors and election deniers understand that fact and it’s that understanding that motivates them to engage in the erection of barriers to the Right to Vote.
The history of the belief of white privileged arrived on the shores of this country with the arrival of the Pilgrims in New England on November 11, 1620. It was then further enshrined in the U.S. Constitution in 1776 when Thomas Jefferson penned “all men are created equal.” Given the fact that Native Americans were labeled as savages and Black people had already been enslaved since 1619, Jefferson really meant that all white men, more so if they owned land, were created equal.
What to the slave is the 4th of July
Trump is a joke but not a funny one; he’s a dangerous joke!
When I was asked by then-Charleston Mayor Joe Riley 23 years ago to chair the steering committee to develop his vision of establishing such a museum in Charleston, I thought of the countless slaves that were stolen from their homeland, stripped of their identities, and brought to this strange land in shackles. But I also thought of the African Americans who rose above the circumstances of their ancestors and their countless descendants eager to honor their memories. I said during my dedication remarks that IAAM tells the story of perseverance through the middle passage, resistance to enslavement, triumphs over Jim Crow, and significant contributions to the greatness of this country.