Scalia Would Have Voted to Keep School Segregation
By GottaLaff Supreme Court "Justice"? In an appearance at the University of Arizona, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia "said he likely would have dissented from the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of...
View ArticleSummit Watch- Harkin: Whenever I hear the word "pool", I think "segregation."
By GottaLaff Tom Harkin: Nine out of ten of Republican ideas are in the Senate bill that are in the House bill... We're very close on this. As for an incremental approach: You can only do reforms if...
View ArticleVIDEO: Texas Apartment Complex Refuses to Rent to Muslims
By GottaLaff The climate of hatred and racism in this country is nauseating. Segregation is not a thing of the past. The post VIDEO: Texas Apartment Complex Refuses to Rent to Muslims appeared first on...
View Article"Confederate History Month" Declared By Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell
By GottaLaff Click on image to enlarge: In case you haven't heard, it's "Confederate History Month", or as I like to call it, "Boy Howdy, We Miss Slavery Month". H/t: Joeyess The post "Confederate...
View ArticleMississippi county schools ordered to comply with desegregation order
By GottaLaff For those hippie stoners who want to relive the sixties, here you go: A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping...
View ArticleVIDEO- Arizona passes strict illegal immigration act; "Pro-discrimination"
By GottaLaff As Tiggrr1 says, Arizona's Anti-Immigration Bill puts Arizona in the same boat as segregationists in the 1960s. He's right. 1964 to be exact. Watch: Via the L.A. Times: Arizona lawmakers...
View ArticleArizona Watch: Racial profiling is a reality
By GottaLaffRacial profiling has been going on for some time in Arizona, thanks to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, as we've posted over and over. Today the L.A. Times is reporting that very same thing, and it's...
View ArticleIllinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez arrested at Washington immigration rally
By GottaLaff Los Angeles surpassed its 100,000 count at their immigration rally, per CNN. Gutierrez was in D.C.: Police arrested Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez at an immigration rally outside the White...
View Article"Freedom did not lead to a decline in racism; it only got worse."
This is a quoteworthy quote for Quote-O'-The-Day. And I quote: Bruce Bartlett writes, "as we know from history, the free market did not lead to a breakdown of segregation. ... Thus we have a perfect...
View ArticleWalmart segregates books based on race
Bob Dyer has a terrific post up at the Beacon Journal's Ohio.com. Please read all of it, but here's the gist: Walmart is segregating their book displays. They have all their black books here, and all...
View ArticleBlack segregation in US drops to lowest in century
Lots of interesting stuff further in the article. Emphasis mine. WASHINGTON — America's neighborhoods became more integrated last year than during any time in at least a century, says a broad array of...
View ArticleHow Southern Republicans Aim to Make White Democrats Extinct
Georgia House Minority Leader, State Rep. Stacey Abrams, wrote a piece for U.S. News and World Report that is a must-read: Across the state, legislative maps are drawn to split voters along artificial...
View ArticlePhotOH! Slavery, racial segregation and 2012 elections
Via The more things change... H/t: @FereJohn The post PhotOH! Slavery, racial segregation and 2012 elections appeared first on The Political Carnival.
View Article"Charter co-locating at our school will harm... our democracy... It will...
We enrolled our twins in public schools and, for a short time, in a private school. The reason we switched to a private elementary school for two years is that our neighborhood school lost funding for...
View ArticleWhat I will not write about today
One of TPC's contributors, Andy Marquis, linked me to a couple of the items that I will not write about today, and I included his comments. See, sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened...
View ArticleCartoons of the Day- Jackie Robinson
Via. The post Cartoons of the Day- Jackie Robinson appeared first on The Political Carnival.
View ArticleWhat I will not write about today
Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood...
View Article50 Murders In The White House
The White House in question is on the segregated campus of the Dozier School for boys, a reform school in Marianna, Florida. The building was described by one of the former attendees as a torture...
View ArticleMissouri Governor Once Tried To End Desegratation
When Jay Nixon was attorney general of Missouri he filed a motion to end desegregation claiming it was not cost effective. The Washington Post reports: Nixon's position infuriated the local NAACP,...
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