No Sympathy for Trump Supporters Who Express Regret

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No Sympathy for Trump Supporters Who Express Regret

Poor Helen Beristain! She voted for Donald Trump. But now her undocumented husband has been deported to Mexico by Trump. Now she cries tears heavy with a Jack Daniels' sadness, a sadness most wives would prefer not to drink.

She thought Trump would deport only people with criminal records—the “bad hombres,” as her fuhrer called them. “I don't think ICE is out there to detain anyone and break families, no,” Beristain told CNN affiliate WSBT in March 2017, shortly after her husband, Roberto Beristain, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Is Donald Trump Boning Kellyanne and Omarosa?

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Is Donald Trump Boning Kellyanne and Omarosa?

That question is not unfair. It is not malevolent. And it certainly is not sarcasm.

That question is a political and moral question, as legitimate and valid as any sensible motion an attorney presents in a rape case. That question is about the character of the Lucifer behind the White Evangelical Christian cult. It is about the grand wizard of the Republican Party, about the fuhrer of your United States. About Donald Trump as septic tank and toilet.

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Rule No. 1: Arm Yourselves

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Rule No. 1: Arm Yourselves

 

“A man’s rights rests in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” (Frederick Douglass)

After Charles Cotton, a Houston attorney and National Rifle Association board member, blamed the slain pastor of Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for the massacre that occurred at the church on June 17, 2015, a tornado of outrage engulfed his comments before he had time to delete them.

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A Plea to Blacks on the Issue of Self-Defense

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A Plea to Blacks on the Issue of Self-Defense

 

“Some blacks would rather be shot by their enemies than shoot their enemies.”

Sometimes, the relationship between the old and the new is like a bad marriage. The old inside the marriage want to get out; the new outside the marriage want to get in. Yet, the new may not grasp that the marriage is bad for them too.

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Cuban Racist Angry That African American History Museum Excludes Clarence Thomas

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Cuban Racist Angry That African American History Museum Excludes Clarence Thomas

Some questions require a yes and no answer. If a neighbor asks “Do you own the Irish terrier you take for a walk every evening?” to say no is not completely accurate, even if your husband or wife paid for the dog. A complaint by Ted Cruz would probably elicit such a response.

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Rejecting the Birth of a White Evangelical Christian Jesus

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Rejecting the Birth of a White Evangelical Christian Jesus

When Labor Party member Lizzie Blandthorn, a member of Australia’s parliament, who is based in Pascoe Vale, north of Melbourne, displayed a black doll in a Christmas nativity scene, she received congratulatory comments, such as “I think it is fantastic …” from Wendy Odgers and “I love that you are depicting Jesus as he most likely was considering the part of the world he was born in.” from Maggie Palmer.

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Thanksgiving in Black

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Thanksgiving in Black

Everything has an opposite: Every mountain has a valley; every knife spurns a fork; every night turns to day.

Thanksgiving Day has its opposite too—the National Day of Mourning, which honors native ancestors and the struggles of native peoples. The National Day of Mourning began in 1970 when Wamsutta (Frank B.) James, an Aquinnah Wampanoag elder, gave a speech near the Pilgrim’s first meeting house in Massachusetts.

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Columbus Day Terrorism and Indigenous People’s Day

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Columbus Day Terrorism and Indigenous People’s Day

On October 10, 2016, many Americans celebrated Columbus Day, a day bathed in controversy. The holiday is so controversial that Columbus Day has been replaced with Indigenous People’s Day by Albuquerque, New Mexico; Seattle, Washington; and the Portland, Oregon, Public School System.

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Paula White, Donald Trump and Plantation Christianity

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Paula White, Donald Trump and Plantation Christianity

On November 18, 1978, more than 900 members of the Christian evangelical and Pentecostal cult, the Peoples Temple, died in a mass murder-suicide at the demand of their white false prophet and cult leader Jim Jones. The massacre occurred at the Jonestown settlement, named after Jones, in the South American nation of Guyana.

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