2016: White Voters And Racism In The Age of Trump And Sanders | Blog#42
This primary season has been filled with talk about angry white voters;
This primary season has been filled with talk about angry white voters;
The acrimony, this election cycle, has been palpable
America has had to downsize life in the last few years.
Ta-Nehisi Coates in his Atlantic piece, dated January 19th, 2016, asks, “Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations? The Vermont senator’s political imagination is active against plutocracy, but why is it so limited against white supremacy?”
Baltimore It wasn’t long ago, just over three months, in fact, that we were glued to our televisions,
Hillary Clinton gave her long-awaited economic speech this week.
Paul Krugman’s post in reaction to the Greek referendum
I was relieved after a very long period of mostly silence, interspersed with a few non-committal statements on the TPP, to read Professor Krugman’s blog post curated below. But that relief is tempered by the timing and temperature of this position statement.
Patrice is, in many ways, typical. A low-income woman, she’s struggling to find affordable housing in Milwaukee. The 24-year-old single mother of three shares a two-bedroom apartment with her mother, her three young children and her three siblings. It’s on the same block as abandoned buildings and memorials for victims of shootings. The back door … Continue reading Evictions are as bad for black women as prison is for black men | The Washington Post
This web page contains curated news beginning January 1, 2019 through the end of the year. During 2018-19, I maintained a running post called “Things Trump Did While You Weren’t Looking NEW! I am currently chronicling Things Biden Is Doing Before Leaving Things Biden Is Doing Before Leaving | Blog#42 I would love to do … Continue reading Things Trump Did While You Weren’t Looking [2019] | Blog#42