Category: Slavery
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In Their Defense, Corruption Just Comes “Naturally” To Conservatives
Where corruption’s concerned, both sides don’t do it because both sides can’t. They don’t have the means. Put aside political labels for a second. Ideology may inspire corruption but without the money and power to realize those inspirations, ideology is a nice car without an engine. Those with money and power have the tools required […]
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Now That The Republicans Have Their Crown Jewel, They Have No Idea How To Keep It
Ya can’t blame Republicans for always making rookie mistakes. When it comes to being good humans, they’re rookies. At best. They’re an object lesson in what happens when you do things for all the wrong reasons. They’ve focused on ending Roe v Wade – and “privacy” as a “thing” in American jurisprudence – for fifty […]
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What IS “Freedom” Anyway?
“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose” was Kris Kristofferson’s answer to the question (he wrote the song “Me And Bobby McGee”). I’m not sure I agree with Kris. I mean, sure, what he’s referencing is a certain kind of freedom – the one where circumstances box you in so you might as […]
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I Hereby Declare War On Greed
Of all the deadly sins, only one matters. In a sense, every sin – deadly or otherwise – flows from this one: greed. Greed is the triumph of “me” over everything else in the universe. One’s sense of self-worth is disconnected from reality in the worst way possible. “I alone can fix it”. No one […]
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Russia Won’t Subdue Ukraine And America’s Right Wing Won’t Subdue The Rest Of America
Someone should write this down so we can all remember it next time: whenever humans fail to learn the lessons history’s trying so desperately to teach us, it’s a dead certainty that humans will repeat those exact mistakes again and again. Megalomaniacal “leaders” who think they can “rule the world” ALL inevitably fail. No one […]
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Vladimir Putin Wants To Live In The Past; So Does Every Single Republican
Regardless of whatever political system he grew up in, Vladimir Putin is the poster boy for conservatism. Communism may fit on the left side of the political spectrum but its execution never smacks of progressive values. I betcha that never in his life did Vlad Putin ever embrace communism like a faith. The only thing […]
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The Jewish Experience And The Black Experience In America Aren’t Similar But They Aren’t That Different Either
Today, ABC News suspended Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks from “The View” after Whoopi “insisted that the Holocaust was “not about race,” but rather “man’s inhumanity to man.” Whoopi didn’t help herself any when she went on the Stephen Colbert show to do damage control. Look, in realpolitik terms, Whoopi is absolutely right: the larger […]
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Black Americans Understand America’s Promise More Than White Americans Ever Have
The whole American franchise – our experiment in human self government – rests upon one thing: the vote. That’s where the self-government starts. If you screw with the vote, you’re screwing with the whole concept of self-government. If you stop some people from voting because of their race or creed in favor of others (because […]
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