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Tag Archives: racism
Paul Krugman With Al Franken
Krugman does the best job I’ve heard of succinctly explaining the student debt crisis and why student loan forgiveness is the right thing to do. That and more in this well worth your time podcast.
Posted in Blog for Iowa
Tagged economy, Paul Krugman, racism, Right wing ideology
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Can Deidre DeJear Win? The Answer Is Yes!
I attended enough events and got enough one-on-one time with Deidre DeJear – both during her current campaign and when she ran for Secretary of State – to know she would be a good governor. When I compare her to … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged #iagov, 2022 Election campaign, Deidre DeJear, DeJear for Governor, Iowa Democratic Party 2022, Iowa Democrats, racism
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Robert Reich: Racism Is Profitable
The above video is from Robert Reich’s Inequality Media. This video ties in to a degree with the previous post on how labor has been exploited especially since the mid 1970s. Lyndon Johnson many years ago made an astute observation … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2020 election campaign, Income inequality, Joni Ernst, Labor
Tagged racism
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Being Racist
We have to look at ourselves in the mirror and consider whether we are racist. It’s not easy to do in the best of circumstances. Dictionaries consistently define a racist as someone who has a notion that one’s own ethnic … Continue reading
Posted in Progressive Community, progressive values
Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter, racism, Racism in America
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You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument
Right at the time of renewed racial tensions in the USA comes this short and very gritty look at an aspect of the relics of the Civil War that few ever think of. Reading this really opened some channels of … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa
Tagged Confederacy, confederate monuments, racism
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Why Racism?
Racism is a feature of the Trump administration geared toward activating marginal voters who support his racist statements to get them to vote to elect Republicans, posits Thom Hartmann in the clip below. “When Trump said this he knew exactly … Continue reading
Why Condemn King Now?
A 3 minute videos from just before the midterm election. At that time King was a campaign co-chair for Kim Reynolds. Reynolds refused to disavow King at that time. She won with votes from King’s district. Political opportunism, anyone? We … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2020 election campaign, Blog for Iowa, Charles Grassley, Joni Ernst, Kim Reynolds, Republican hypocrisy, Steve King
Tagged racism
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Confederate Flag: Heritage And Hate
Slavery and Jim Crow discrimination cast a long shadow on American society. Racial hatred remains a potent force in our society, as a recent horrific event reminds us. On June 17, a white gunman massacred nine blacks in a Charleston … Continue reading
Posted in Progressive Community
Tagged Confederacy, confederate flag, Jim Crow, racism, Slavery
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Decentralized and United we stand, Divided We Fail
[by David Van Thournout] I want to talk to my democrat friends who are in the fight to help Obama win in 2012. One person, even if he’s the president, can’t really change things in America. But I still believe … Continue reading
Posted in Obama 2012, Occupy Wall Street, President Obama, War on Drugs
Tagged 2012 campaign, by David Van Thournout, cannabis, climate change, corporatism, democrat, drug war, global warming, health care, marijuana, Obama, occupy, police state, racism, Republicans, right wing, Supreme Court
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