An article about the day back in 1957 when Louis Armstrong decided that the time had come for him to speak out on racism.
Definitely worth reading.
Category: Human rights
White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots
“Americans want to believe that the surge in white-supremacist violence and recruitment has no roots in U.S. soil, that it is racist zealotry with a foreign pedigree and marginal allure,” wrote Adam Serwer in April 2019.
When in fact, he argued, “a strange kind of historical amnesia has obscured the American lineage of this white-nationalist ideology.”
The Rules of the Gun Debate
It is almost as though the debating rules for the gun debate in the US are designed to ensure that the debate is never resolved.
Twenty people were killed in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas on August 4, 2019. Just as I finished proofreading this post at around 0215 on August 5, 2019, my phone received a notification of a different mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
Sigh.
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