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Reverend Dr. William Barber II on reclaiming the moral high ground and building a majority coalition around issues of social justice

By Mark | September 2, 2014

Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, History | Also tagged abortion, affirmative action, assassination, Barack Obama, Brown v. Board of Education, busing, Charles Koch, Charlotte, Christianity, civil disobedience, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil War, Committee on Equal Employment, economic justice, Emmett Till, entitlements, family values, Forward Together Moral Movement, George Wallace, guns, health care, higher ground, homosexuality, JFK, Jim Crow, Kevin Phillips, Koch brothers, labor, LBJ, Lee Atwater, Medgar Evers, Medicaid, Medicare, MLK, moral fusion, Moral Monday, morality, Netroots Nation, North Carolina, Otto Scharmer, Plessy v. Ferguson, political strategy, populism, poverty, prayer in the school, progressive politics, public education, race and poverty, racism, reconstruction, Redemption Movement, religion, religious right, RFK, Richard Nixon, Rosa Parks, snake line, social justice, Southern Coalition Leadership Conference, southern strategy, states rights, tea party, voter suppression, voting rights, William Barber | 18 Comments

Would the Republican leaders of yesteryear have engaged in birtherism?

By Mark | August 28, 2012

I find myself, for some reason I don’t quite understand, watching grainy, old footage of William F. Buckley this evening, instead of doing something that I might actually enjoy, like reading the motivational affirmations of Old Spice pitchman and rising action star Terry Crews. I think, subconsciously, the seed was planted earlier today, when I […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-intellectualism, birther, Chris Matthews, conspiracy theories, fear mongering, fear tactics, Gore Vidal, Hurricane Isaac, Lee Atwater, lying, Newt Gingrich, Nixon, Noam Chomsky, Pat Buchanan, race, race baiting, rat fucking, reality deficient, Reince Priebus, RNC, Terry Crews, wedge issues, William F. Buckley, Willie Horton | 33 Comments

Welcome to Blandsilanti

By Mark | June 3, 2009

Last night, the Ypsi City Council met to, among other things, determine a course of action relative to the proposed Ypsitucky bluegrass festival. As I’m sure most of you know, there’s been a little bit of a hubbub over the name, which was proposed by the Depot Town CDC. Some think, given that the word […]

Posted in Ideas, Mark's Life, Observations, Other, Rants, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Appalachia, Blandsilanti, David Kircher, David Ware, Demetrius Ypsilanti, Depot Town CDC, Human Relations Commission, Kentucky, Kintuck Day, race, shortsighted individuals in power, the "tucky" suffix, the anti-tucky contingent, things found offensive to the Turks, Ypsitucky | 83 Comments

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