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...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 16, 2019 | • Politics, Racism
Tulsa race riot – Wikipedia and more…. Elaine Massacre of 1919 – Encyclopedia of Arkansas The Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 12, 2018 | • Politics, Racism
America’s Problem Isn’t Tribalism. It’s Racism. Read: How to teach white kids about race A large number of Republican candidates, led by the president, ran racist or bigoted campaigns against their opponents. But those opponents cannot be said to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 23, 2017 | • Politics, Racism
John Wayne was a racist asshole who dodged military service during WWII …from a Playboy interview in 1971. John Wayne was a fraud and a complete piece of shit. He dodged the draft, then built a mythology as a war hero in World War II. He turned his friends in to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 31, 2017 | • Politics, Racism
Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of...
