Well, they’re at it again in Jena. This time it’s 1st Amendment rights that seem to be nettling the powers-that-be. LaSalle Parish Schools Superintendent Roy Breithaupt has told a group of students […]
US MSM starts to catch up on Jena…why so slow…?
Finally. On Monday, July 30th, NPR’s All Things Considered broadcast a story on the Jena 6. Other than coverage of the first trial of one of the defendants, Mychal Bell, by a […]
CU and the Churchill Affair: how did this happen in the first place?
The wait is over and the inevitable has happened: the University of Colorado yesterday formally dismissed Professor Ward Churchill. Interim President Hank Brown explained, in an open letter to the school’s donors: […]
What are they supporting…? Russell Simmons and Al Sharpton loud on Vick, mum on Jena…
So. Russell Simmons, Al Sharpton, and PETA have all signed a letter condemning dog fighting and calling Mike Vick out for his indictment in a dog fighting ring. Well and good. Dog […]
Jena 6 update: The NAACP finally gets involved, the good old boys have some fun, and whites in Jena say “we’re not like that, that’s them people over there” yadda yadda…
When Doug Marlette died July 10th, bringing to an end his wonderful comic strip about the South, Kudzu, most of us who “don’t hate the South,†as Quentin Compson would say, were […]
Scroguely Works: Cry, the beloved country
Cry, the beloved country by Alan Paton, first published 1948, 320 pages, ISBN 978-0743262170 (Schroguely Works is our new feature on books of interest to thinking-minded folk.) “There is a lovely road […]
The mockingbird’s song isn’t heard in Jena, LA….
Today is the 46th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee’s iconic novel about Southern race relations, To Kill a Mockingbird. This particular anniversary seems a bittersweet one, since the Jena 6 […]
Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!
By Robert Silvey Any discussion of race in America must begin with the fact that for 388 years African Americans have been victimized, and for most of that time they were treated […]
The Jena 6 and the “old” South; or, plus ca change…you know the rest….
“You can’t understand it. You would have to be born there.” – Quentin Compson, Absalom, Absalom, referring to the South Too often those of us born in the South fall back upon […]
Nifong disbarred: justice is served, if only in small doses…
Mike Nifong made America a worse place. He stirred up a racial firestorm in a town where blacks had longstanding reason to mistrust the white power structure. He cynically played on the […]
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