Politics and its Discontents

I have done a great deal of reading in the past couple of years on The Civil War, slavery, Reconstruction , the Jim Crow laws that followed ...

 Most have probably heard about or seen the video of the violent confrontation occurring in Montgomery, Alabama the other day. A riverboat w...

I don't know about you, but I have always felt deeply uneasy about fervid professions of patriotism, especially the kind that Americans ...

I wonder if Americans realize that is how their country is seen by the rest of the world , in no small measure thanks to their having electe...

So says the always fearless and indefatigable Cornel West . As I watched the following, I couldn't help but think that if one feels dism...

There is much more graphic video available online, but the following succinctly shows the horror of being black in the United States:

An Entire Black Family Nearly Excuted By #Police Because A 4 Year Old Kid Walked Out Of A store With A Barbie Doll Without The Family Notic...

I recently wrote a post entitled, The Vindication of Colin Kaepernick , in which I opined on the decision by Nike to use the former NFLer ...

Colin Kaepernick is someone I admire. As previously noted in this blog , the former NFL player, whose decision to protest police brutalit...

There's no country like it, eh?

When we talk on the phone, my good friend Dave in Winnipeg often talks about the twin 'curse' of intelligence and education. Life wo...

Colin Kaepernick speaks a truth that, unfortunately, too many of his fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge. UPDATE: Thanks to The Moun...

ATLANTA — A white Cobb County police lieutenant has been moved to administrative duty for telling a white woman during a traffic stop, “Reme...

This may not surprise us, but it should still horrify us. In the middle of a crowded bar, Adam Purinton yelled at two Indian men to "...

From Facebook: Three Racists attack innocent Black man while yelling "Get out of my country!" Is this what they mean when they say...

All along, Trump seemed like a twisted caricature of every rotten reflex of the radical right. That he has prevailed, that he has won this...

Over at Northern Reflections today, Owen has a timely reminder via Henry Giroux of what Donald Trump really stands for: fascism, hatred, b...

Yep, that would be Fox News. Watch the following 'deep' sociological discussion between Bill O'Reilly and Donald Trump as the fo...

This, from our enlightened cousins to the south. H/t Let Freedom Rain