by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 6, 2023 | • Politics, On Liberalism, Racism
Woke, in other words, means being aware of these social crises and wanting to repair them, to make a more happy, loving, egalitarian society. Here’s the Truth – If You’re Anti-Woke, You’re Pro-Bigot “So in Florida, we say very clearly, we...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 12, 2022 | • Politics, Racism, The Republicans
MAGA Nation is Fighting a Race War Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says only “non-whites” can get anti-viral COVID treatment. It’s a lie, which, like all MAGA-conservatism, stokes racial...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 13, 2021 | • Politics, Racism
Opinion: Jon Gruden’s emails not just an NFL problem. They’re symbolic of societal white grievance. If you want to fully understand why Jon Gruden resigned Monday after a trove of racist and misogynistic emails was unearthed like a giant vat of radioactive...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 12, 2021 | Racism
Opinion | The NFL’s racism problem is a lot bigger then Jon Gruden Just days ago, Jon Gruden seemed unassailable, assumedly untouchable. But as of Monday, he resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. A favorite of Vegas franchise owner Mark Davis, he was in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 20, 2021 | • Politics, Racism
Ibram X. Kendi on What Conservatives-and Liberals-Get Wrong About Antiracism Listen to this episode from The Ezra Klein Show on Spotify. “What if instead of a feelings advocacy we had an outcome advocacy that put equitable outcomes before our guilt and...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 18, 2021 | History, Quotations, Memes, & Lessons From Life, Racism
“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 8, 2021 | • Politics, Racism
Colonialism is built on the rubble of a false idea of ancient Rome | Aeon Essays At the dawn of the 20th century, Italian patriots were struggling to overcome a profound inferiority complex. Ever since 1861, when Giuseppe Garibaldi unified the country’s...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 22, 2020 | • Politics, Racism
Perspective | The truths ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ tells about white people I was probably 15 or 16 when I first read Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird.” I may have seen the movie before then (one I have watched countless times since)....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 16, 2020 | • Politics, Black Lives Matter, Racism
Ibram Kendi, one of the nation’s leading scholars of racism, says education and love are not the answer It’s a Wednesday night at a bookstore in a well-off part of Washington, D.C., and every seat is taken. More than 100 people spill into the aisles or...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 2, 2020 | • Politics, Joe Biden, Racism, The 2020 Presidential Race
Biden’s Racism Is More Veiled Than Trump’s – But No Less Real When it comes to race, Joe Biden’s record and rhetoric reflect the broader hypocrisy of U.S. politics. While Biden rightly criticizes Donald Trump’s racism, he then praises...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 6, 2020 | Domestic Terrorism, Racism, Terrorism
The FBI Just Put White Nationalists and Neo-Nazis on the Same Threat Level as ISIS The FBI has elevated racially-motivated violent extremism to a “national threat priority,” in yet another sign that the U.S. government has finally woken up to the threat...
