If we are brutally honest with ourselves, we must acknowledge that slavery never really ended. To be sure, in the United States, Black people were released from official bondage with Emancipation, and countries today have no official slavery provisions. Nonetheless, it should be clear to all with critical faculties that
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Politics and its Discontents: History’s Judgement
If you don’t know the tragic story of Emmett Till, you can click here to read something I posted about him a few years back. It is the kind of history that Ron DeSantis doesn’t want Florida students to know about, as I noted in a recent post. Fortunately, Joe
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Driving The Point Home
If you don’t get this, please see my previous post. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Who Needs Reparations?
According to the ‘new’ history to be taught in Florida, it may be African Americans who owe white America reparations, given the ‘benefits’ that slavery conferred upon them. Sound ludicrous? Not in Ron DeSantis’s world. Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Meanwhile, In The Land Of Corrupt Backroom Deals
H/t Patrick Corrigan I’m sure that Premier Ford hopes no one is monitoring his ongoing corruption and his destruction of much-needed Greenbelt land. Star readers puncture that illusion. Ford on defensive over probe Doug Ford criticizes auditor general over Greenbelt investigation, July 13 Dear Doug Ford, please don’t mistake the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Straight-Pride Guy’s Disappointment
As Kermit the Frog said, it’s not easy being green. H/t Dean Blundell Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Things Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Want People To Know
JAMES BALDWIN addresses the University Of Cambridge during his epochal debate with William F. Buckley in 1965. Oratory and content of the very highest order. To listen is to learn. H/t Michael Warburton Keeping both Black and white people ignorant of their history is the main strategy of the Florida
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Just A Victim Of Circumstances?
Fate can be cruel. It is not unheard of to be going about, minding one’s own business, when a person of unknown provenance accosts you and demands a photo with you. Results of such encounters can vary. There was, one may recall, an incident in 2002 when the Mayor of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Atticus Said It Best
Interestingly, that is exactly what Marlon Brando was talking about in 1972, when he refused the Oscar for Best Actor (The Godfather). He was opposing the portrayal of Native Americans on the screen. To make his point, he sent his refusal via Sacheen Littlefeather. As I recall, she was
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Are You Listening, Mr. DeSantis?
Of course you aren’t. H/t Michael Warburton Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Political Theatre Writ Large
For those unfamiliar with the death of Chuckles the Clown on the Mary Tyler Show, please click here. The episode ranks as one of the funniest in television history, its dark absurdity
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Canadian Vulnerability
Were it not for the willfully stupid and ignorant, the unhinged, and the extreme in our midst, I really would be less concerned about the benighted domestic decisions the Americans make. But because of the four aforementioned blights on our Canadian landscape, I do worry that those decisions have an
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: If Only The Truth Could Set Them Free
But judging by Donald Trump’s approval ratings, it does no such thing: This is how you beat Donald Trump: 1. Destroy his brand. 2. Expose his lifetime of lies and failures 3. Humiliate him as the absolute loser that he is day after day after day after day. Recommend this
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Reflection On This Canada Day
While there are many who would tell us that Canada feels broken, it is only so to those who get their news from demagogues and their ilk. There is, however, much to be reflective and humble about, and this country does a pretty solid job of cultivating both. Not for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Complementary Videos
I think the readers of this blog will have no problem understanding why the second video naturally follows the first one: NowThis @nowthisnews ‘He wants to create a kind of passive, ignorant population’ — Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat is sending out a warning about FL Gov. Ron DeSantis, comparing him to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Democracy Is Fine, Until It Isn’t
I don’t post on a daily basis anymore, partly because I have other things keeping me busy and partly because I do wonder if anything good can come from a frequent barrage of of my deep-seated cynicism. I see little to inspire hope in the world, so why simply
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Advice For The Ages
Since most of us no longer attend Sunday services, we do not benefit from wise, well-considered homilies. The following advice from the philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1959 resonates now more than ever, and would be a welcome message from most pulpits today, except, of course, from the hatemongering and crazed
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: See No Evil
The evil would be the visibility of homeless people. The ‘solution‘ that had been sought by Barrie City Council was an odious bylaw that would have outlawed individuals giving food, drink and other succour for those living on the streets. Essentially, it was a “don’t feed the wildlife” approach,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Where Is He Now?
Were you to go down the right-hand side panel of this blog, you would see that Pat Robertson appears in 30 past posts. That I did not acknowledge his recent passing is attributable more to the fact that I’ve been busy lately rather than to a loss of interest in the crazed old evangelical,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Adding Fuel
In the debased species known as humanity, it perhaps is not surprising that the very wildfires consuming us have become fuel for yet more deranged people and their ‘theories’. Here are two of my favourite examples of our ongoing slide into social, political and spiritual senescence: The embers of one
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