The Ironies of Southern History: Yesterday and Today
A bit of a history lesson first, before I really get started. As has been previously stated by people far more eloquent than myself, our recent national turbulence has antecedents that stretch back...
View ArticleIrreconcilable Differences
Over half a century ago, Arizona’s native son, Barry Goldwater became the Republican nominee for President, launching a campaign that presaged the modern conservative movement. Every subsequent...
View ArticleIs This The Third Reconstruction?
Legendary Southern historian C. Vann Woodward noted, in a collection of essays entitled The Burden of Southern History, a great truism about the nature of activist movements. I first read these words...
View ArticleAssassination, secession, insurrection: The crimes of John Wilkes Booth,...
Donald Trump broke new ground as the first president—the first American, period—to be impeached twice. However, thinking of him solely in those terms fails by a long shot to capture how truly historic...
View ArticleThe Majesty and the Horror of the Senate Trial
Seven GOP Senators. It wasn't enough. A majority of 57 total did the right thing. If the law was a simple majority, he'd be convicted.Never ever would I have thought that after all that evidence,...
View ArticleDiversity is Not That Simple
Politico has published an interesting interactive study of the venerable old icon of this country, Uncle Sam. Many people want him revamped and recalibrated for the modern day. I’m reminded of the...
View ArticleTrump is back, he's rabid as ever, and the GOP is sure to be collateral damage
Fresh off his Senate GOP acquittal, Donald Trump reinserted himself into the national political arena with none other than a 625-word screed lashing out at GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as a...
View Article'I don’t want to eat our own': Senate Republicans fret over Trump-McConnell...
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell first saw Donald Trump's pointed screed skewering him as a “dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack,” he laughed, according to CNN. That's certainly the...
View ArticleLindsey Graham's heading to Mar-a-Lago to reason with Trump. It's a master plan
It's already doomed, which is why Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is the perfect person to head south on a mission to soothe the mangy ruffled feathers of Donald Trump.Here's how CNN frames the...
View Article‘Waving the bloody shirt’: Conservatives resort to a time-worn tactic to...
If you watched Republicans on the Sunday news talk programs this weekend, you could be forgiven if you experienced a surreal, out-of-body feeling seeing every Republican official invited on for...
View ArticleI'm Finally Coming to Terms with My Southern Ancestors' Role as Slave...
After considerable time, I’ve started coming to terms with some facts about my family that I’ve inferred from research into our genealogy. I started digging into the subject a couple of years ago...
View ArticleWho really owns the whip hand?
Who Really Owns The Whip Hand?So, we won the election, despite what a majority of Republicans believe, but can we actually govern? Let's consider:1.We have 243 voter suppression bills proffered in 43...
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Leaving Behind a Legacy
It was pointed out to me recently that I’ve been writing here for fourteen years. I gravitated to this site in the beginning because of my massive dislike of then-President George W. Bush and our role...
View ArticleWhite Blame
"Should ALL White people be blamed for something that happened 200 years ago?"No, not BLAMED - it's being responsible to what we know NOW. I am a White person inviting my fellow Whites who may have...
View ArticleLooking at the Pandemic Through Responsible Eyes
Let me begin this way—so that no one accuses me in the comment section or elsewhere of being heartless, callous, or cruel. As President Biden reminded us late last week, the sheer death toll of the...
View ArticleDr. Joey "Don't Say Gay" Hensley (TN Senate R) tries more mischief for KKK...
A noted piece of work, State Senator Hensley, a Sons of Confederate Veterans member, decided there were so many new ways to get a KKK founder’s statue to stick around in the usual battles of Tennessee...
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Republicans went all in some time ago
Will the Republicans play out their hand, or are they bluffing?In case you haven’t noticed, the Republicans have gone all in, Texas hold’em style. Trump was the catalyst. What they stand for is no...
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2021 is the Bicentennial of Two Remarkable American Women
As this year’s Women’s History Month draws to a close, we should continue celebrating women’s accomplishments, along with highlighting the urgency for continuing progress. The inauguration of Vice...
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Why Market Driven Capitalism hates infrastructure and socially beneficial...
The more market/profits driven capitalist elements have gained control over government over recent years, the less percentage wise has been spent on infrastructure, anti-poverty, and quality of...
View ArticleVictory at Appomattox
The confederate lost cause is a persistent “white wash” of history.W.E.B. Du Bois' first published writing on Reconstruction was a 1901 Atlantic Monthly essay entitled "The Freedmen's Bureau."This was...
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