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Fallout from the KKK and other white supremacists rearing their ugly heads in Charlottesville last weekend is taking many forms. Most notable is the way cities across America are removing monuments to Confederate leaders as if they were suddenly emitting a deadly airborne virus. Remarkably, no less a person than President Trump is acting as… Read more.
Bree Newsome, the woman who climbed a flagpole and removed a Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol, said she wanted to help America reconcile with its racist past. Newsome, 30, was arrested Saturday after using a harness to climb up the Columbia grounds 30-foot flagpole as officers yelled for her to come down. She was handcuffed… Read more.
Wimbledon got underway at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club yesterday. It is generally regarded as the most prestigious of the four major Tennis championships (aka Grand Slams). Truth be told, I have never understood why. I understand regarding it as the oldest – given that it was founded in 1877. But even that seems hardly… Read more.
That White kid who massacred nine Black people in their historic African Methodist Episcopal Church last week is clearly insane (even if not legally so). What I don’t get is why it took this for putatively sane South Carolinians to recognize the racist pride (for some Whites) and insult (to all Blacks) that flying the… Read more.
