The Confederacy Comes to Washington

History doesn’t repeat itself — it mutates. The Confederacy may have lost the Civil War, but its ideology—white supremacy, authoritarianism, and a rigid social hierarchy—never died. It survived Reconstruction, outlasted Jim Crow, and embedded itself in American life. Now, it’s reemerged not as a rebellious region, but as the ideological engine of the federal government […]

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The Achievement Gap Myth

In every national dataset, in every educational analysis, Black Americans are routinely measured against white Americans—and almost always declared to be behind. Lower scores on standardized tests, lower wealth accumulation, fewer advanced degrees. The assumption baked into these statistics is that white achievement is the default American norm. The “achievement gap” becomes evidence of deficiency. […]

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