Yes. And that’s the way non-white voters want it. A Democratic presidential campaign field that was once touted as the most diverse in history has been whittled down to six candidates on its debate stage, all of them white. [Black congresswoman Barbara Lee] says the Democratic National Committee’s rules for determining who can participate in… Read more.
Archives for 2020
Ghosts of Nightmares Past: #OscarSoWhite…Again!
In my Sunday commentary on the Golden Globes, I noted that Oscar governors were praying to avoid nominations that would trigger another season of #OscarSoWhite memes. To be fair, though, they were not relying on prayer alone. Because Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy’s first black president, initiated A2020 in 2015 to diversify the entertainment industry… Read more.
Golden Globes Kicked Off Movie Awards Season with a Dud. Duh.
I’ve been lobbying for years for movie awards shows to go the way of musicals on TV. And, that winners are so invariably lily white is the least of my complaints. I even attempted to put perennial complaints about #OscarSoWhite into perspective in “#OscarSoDiverse,” January 27, 2017. Granted, this attempt might now seem naïve given… Read more.
Brits just gave Yanks another reason to envy them…
Related commentaries: Harry and Meghan… Jared and Ivanka… Read more.
Harry & Meghan Withdrawing from Royal Duties – to Join the Celebrity Circuit
Of course Harry and Meghan have had enough of royal duties in England. Because they’d rather be making celebrity appearances in America. Harry & Meghan Withdrawing from royal duties King Edward VIII shocked the world when he announced his abdication in 1936. Now Harry and Meghan are announcing theirs. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex… Read more.
After Betraying Syrian Kurds, Trump Now Betraying Venezuelans
Washington was abuzz last year with predictions of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s imminent ouster. But here in part is how I pooh-poohed those predictions in “Maduro Defying (and May Outlast) Trump, Just Like Assad Did Obama (and Castro Did Kennedy),” May 6, 2019: ____________________ Trump would have you believe that [opposition leader] Juan Guaidó is… Read more.
Australia Is Burning. Please Help!
I’ve been lamenting the normalization of apocalyptic wildfires for years in commentaries like “Wildfire Redux: California Burning … Again,” October 25, 2007, “Texas Is Burning,” September 7, 2011,” and “California Burning: ‘The New Normal’?” August 2, 2018. More to the point, in “Wildfires Rivaling Hurricanes,” October 10, 2017, I alluded to the way climate change… Read more.
Trump Targets Iran to ‘Wag the Dog’ – Just as He ‘Projected’ Obama Would Do
President Trump has spent much of his presidency maligning US intelligence agencies as corrupt and incompetent – often in open and notorious ways. But he has proven time and again that he is immune to charges of hypocrisy. Only that explains him citing intelligence gathered by those very agencies to justify this: US President Donald… Read more.