The United States recently turned 250 years old, and racism is a significant part of this history. Our country was founded during an era in which slavery and racial hierarchy were embedded in law and society, and shaped American institutions for generations. Over the past 60 years, we’ve collectively made significant progress toward greater equality. […]
Read more "What to do about racism?"America is being taught how to accept fascism again. And like before, the greatest threat isn’t the extremists themselves—it’s the millions of people willing to accommodate them.
Read more "Why America’s Comfort Breeds Complicity with Hate"“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on”
Julia Ward Howe
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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Indifference is not an option 