It seems we’re observing this MLK Day in a time warp. Because America today looks so much like the Jim Crow America MLK spent his life fighting to change. Observing MLK Day in Jim Crow 2.0 America America is on a schizophrenic march towards the Promised Land of MLK’s famous dream. On the one hand, America elected the first Black man as… Read more.
Civil Rights
Tennessee Legislature Expels Black Lawmakers for Protesting Weak Gun-Violence Bill
Tennessee legislature expels Black lawmakers On Thursday, the Tennessee legislature expelled two Black lawmakers. But it spared a White one. Why did Tennessee expel lawmakers? They have earned the moniker the “Tennessee Three.” That’s for protesting a flawed bill to combat gun violence. It said nothing about guns. And, of course, they were protesting in the wake of… Read more.
John Lewis, Civil Rights Pioneer, Is Dead
Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then carried a mantle of moral authority into Congress, died on Friday. … On the front lines of the bloody campaign to end… Read more.
Saudi Women Granted Right to Drive. Hooray…?
Yes, this is cause for celebration. Saudi Arabia was the only country still denying women this basic human right. Granted, women there are still living in a time warp. But they are getting their panoply of civil rights with more “deliberate speed” than women, to say nothing of blacks, in America got theirs. Saudi Arabia has… Read more.
The Beatles were Civil Rights pioneers?
I have always been a bigger fan of the politics The Beatles advocated than of the songs they sang. I especially admired their anti-war views which, to their credit, they actually sang about in songs like Revolution and Give Peace a Chance. But it seems I may have just cause to become an even bigger… Read more.