There is a growing racism in American society and American politics. Today the United States has a thriving, if somewhat tenuous, black middle class. By conventional measures of income, education, or occupation at least a third of African Americans can be described as middle class, as compared with about half of whites. That has change …
Franklin Graham Franklin Graham, the son of the famous televangelist Billy Graham, and the well-remunerated[1. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/04/franklin-graham-says-covid-19-tent-hospital-wont-discriminate-gay-man-says-refused/.] president/CEO of Samaritan’s Purse. Graham himself drew a salary of $636,451 in 2018, according to the organization’s IRS filing,[1. https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/581437002.] and that’s on top of the full-time salary he gets as president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic …
Around 10 members of the Goyim Defense League came to Austin from Florida this past weekend, hanging an anti-Semitic banner on a MOPAC overpass near the Shalom Austin Jewish Community Center on Saturday and then walking around the heavily trafficked 6th Street. “They were all wearing t-shirts with big swastikas and hats with the same,” …
Extremism is the reality that Texas has lovingly preserved: in politics, in religion, in enforcement (there are more crimes against humanity by police and sheriffs in Texas than in any other state) while education, health, family life and security remain low. The more hate a person can spew is the passport to political office, and …
Along with Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the conspiratorial pro-Trump Republican from Georgia who took office earlier this year,[1. https://www.rawstory.com/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-2655362494/?e=idefinancial@yahoo.com&utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8120&recip_id=625236&list_id=1. Ref. https://www.rollingstone.com/t/marjorie-taylor-greene/. Cf. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greene-gaetz-pac-low-on-cash-1243482/. Cp. https://www.rawstory.com/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-2655353170/?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=5#cxrecs_s.] the members who participated in these conversations or had top staffers join in included Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), …
At a training session last week, a school administrator with Carroll ISD in Southlake, Texas, tried to advise elementary school teachers on how to follow new district guidelines for the vetting of books. The guidelines were issued in an attempt to align with a controversial law in Texas that seeks to restrict discussion of race …
A majority of Iowans delight in white nationalism euphemistically styled “America First,” and white supremacy. A major Klavern of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is headquartered in Boone, Iowa. A primary cell of the American Nazi Party is found in Charles City, Iowa. The KKK has openly worn their robes and called on …
In a country that prioritizes individual freedom as much as the U.S. does, citizens do not have the right to harm their colleagues or their colleagues’ families, friends and communities. One person’s right to a healthy life is greater than another person’s right to a specific job. The government (state and federal) has been requiring …
Woe is Texas for its Legislators’ Ignorance In the cause of “pro-life” some Republican Texas lawmakers are seeking to provide for the potential execution of women who have abortions and the doctors who provide them, taking from the legislation off Nazi Germany (1940-1945) Texas Republican Representative Bryan Lee Slaton has introduced the “Abolition of Abortion …
For his 12th birthday, Gavin Roberts only had one request: get vaccinated against the coronavirus that killed his dad last year. When he reached the legal age to get the shot on Sunday, his wish was finally granted[1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99kik0xjnck. Cp. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/12-year-old-nj-boy-gets-covid-vaccine-for-his-birthday/3285194/.]. Alice Roberts, Gavin’s mother, told NBC New York[1. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/the-emotion-reason-this-12-year-old-nj-boy-wanted-covid-vaccine-for-his-birthday/3285252/.] that her son’s decision was …