Racism

When I graduated from high school in 1971, I was pretty much an apolitical slug. I didn’t know much of anything that was swirling around me in society at that time, despite the fact that U.S. [...]

I’m riffing off a couple of ideas from Ibram X. Kendi and Caitlin Johnstone in this blog post. Ibram X. Kendi Ibram X. Kendi defines racist as “One who is supporting a racist policy [...]

Good evening, my name is Terrell McKinney.   I reside at 5319 N 30th st. Like many, I come here today to speak out against the current budget proposal from our mayor. I reside in the most [...]

Can we have a conversation on race? What are the racial topics that are clearly off the table for whites when they approach the issues of the racial divide and the high level of racism in the [...]

On July 19, the San Diego Union-Tribune, once one of the most blatantly racist, conservative, daily newspapers in the U.S. (now it’s a little better under current ownership), printed an essay [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== The Revolutionist: Film & Discussion (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vRzEkndJs0 June 2019 Sanders: Trump wants socialism for corporations and rich people In a [...]

I used to watch MSNBC almost every day for my daily dose of anti-Trump news, even though the station is chickenshit, not nearly progressive, and has virtually no Chicano voices on a regular [...]

The need is great… Food banks plead for help “[T]he country is experiencing some of the highest food insecurity numbers on record” [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== Henry Wallace, FDR’s vice president, argued 75 years ago that Democrats had to go big on economic and social and racial justice. That’s still true. [...]

During the past week I have seen several African Americans on television, including the twenty-first century stepin fetchit, Stephen “Screaming” A. Smith on ESPN, express their admiration for the [...]