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Mark’s Covid Diary… June 16, 2020
Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged agent provocateurs, ANTIFA, Arizona, bleach, Boogaloo, Costco, COVID-19, crisis gardens, Donald Trump, Enrique Neblett, Florida, food delivery, George Floyd, gun reform, gun violence, health disparities, inequality, Jaws, kale, Katrease Stafford, Kroger, lungs, masks, milkshakes, Monica, political violence, privilege, public health, race inequality, racism, school shooting, Shake Shack, structural racism, Texas, violence on the extreme right 42 Comments
Is Michigan’s Justin Amash going to help Donald Trump win reelection?
Michigan Congressman Justin Amash, the former Republican who made news last year by voting with Democrats to impeach Donald Trump, announced today that he is seriously considering a third-party run for president, as the candidate of the Libertarian Party. While he certainly has a right to do so, I, like others, can’t help but think […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, anti-vaxxers, authoritarianism, Ben Rhodes, Donald Trump, Freedom Caucus, hypocrisy, impeachment, Joe Biden, Joe Walsh, Justin Amash, Libertarian Party, Libertarianism, Presidential politics, Tara Reade, tea party 71 Comments
SAE, the only national fraternity to have its roots in the antebellum South, is once again at the center of a story on racism
As I’m sure you know by now, a video surfaced a few days ago of well-dressed, white University of Oklahoma fraternity members singing together on a bus about how there will never be a black person in their frat – Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE). “There will never be a nigger at SAE,” the men sang […]
Judge Carlton Reeves, sentencing three white men to prison for the murder of a black man in Mississippi, delivers a powerful speech on the legacy of lynching
In the early hours of June 26, 2011, 18-year old Deryl Dedmon, who had been drinking with friends, drove his pick-up truck over a man by the name of James Craig Anderson in Jackson, Mississippi, killing him. Dedmon was white. Anderson was black. Dedmon fled the scene of the crime, but, thanks to surveillance camera […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, History, Uncategorized Also tagged 100 Years of Lynchings, A New History of Mississippi, affirmative action, Andrew Goodman, Carlton Reeves, death penalty, Deryl Dedmon, Dylan Butler, Emmett Till, Equal Justice Initiative, George W. Lee, hate crimes, Jackson, Jafrica, James Cheney, John Aaron Rice, Lynching in America: Confronting the Terror of of Racial Terror, Mack Charles Parker, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Mississippi, Mississippi: An American Journey, n-word, race, race and poverty, racism, slavery, University of Michigan Law School, Vernon Dahmer, white power, Willie McGee, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America 9 Comments
Stuff you likely won’t hear about at the Ypsi Historical Society, Volume I: The presence of the KKK in the 1920s
On occasion, I find that it’s easier to steal content than to write it myself. And, just now, I was given a terrific opportunity to do just that when my friend, the local historian Matt Siegfried, posted the following two newspaper scans to the South Adams Street page he maintains on Facebook. From the November […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged anti-immigration, cross burning, Great Migration, immigration, KKK, Matthew Siegfried, race, racism, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Daily Press 29 Comments
