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The man stands 12 feet tall, eyes closed in what might be pain or transcendence, chains falling off his outstretched arms, scars striped across his muscled back. Opposite him, a woman on a pedestal cradles an infant and thrusts a document into the air, her face calm and resolute. With those figures in the forefront,… Read more.
On March 18, President Trump declared America at war against Covid-19. More to the point, he took great pride in hailing himself a “wartime president.” Except that, Trump has been so incompetent on this front, Joe Biden, his Democratic challenger for the November presidential election, has had just cause to repeatedly dismiss him as follows:… Read more.
Seven years ago, I predicted that commercial pressure would eventually force Washington team owner Daniel Snyder to abandon the racial slur. I compared the team name to other unthinkable ethnic slurs. I argued that Native Americans deserved the same respect as other groups, given that whites’ genocidal killing and land confiscation were arguably worse than… Read more.
In other words, there’s no need for BLM protesters to turn into lynch mobs, especially just to exact vigilante justice on Confederate monuments. It is self-evident that President Trump is fighting yet another losing battle. For reasons that can make sense only to the white racists he panders to, he’s trying to protect and preserve… Read more.
Evidently, Trump is still smarting from the way the media mocked him for hiding in the White House bunker from George Floyd anti-racism protesters. But he’s also still reeling from ex-military leaders rebuking him for using US soldiers in that infamous photo-op He clearly hoped the latter would make him look like a military strongman,… Read more.
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.
