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How Quickly We Forget: The Lost and Disrespected Victims of COVID-19

Posted by Reggie Jackson | Jun 5, 2020 |

“Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.” – Madeleine de Souvre After months of staying at home other than trips to the grocery store or pharmacy my wife and I went for a “leisurely drive” by the lakefront on Memorial Day. It was the saddest experience for me in recent memory. We saw hundreds of people because we went late in the day. I am sure that had we gone much earlier we would have seen...

Slave Patrols: America has yet to reckon with the racist roots of our criminal justice system

Posted by TheConversation | Jun 5, 2020 |

By Connie Hassett-Walker, Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Sociology, Norwich University Outrage over racial profiling and the killing of African Americans by police officers and vigilantes has recently resurfaced following the death of George Floyd on May 25. Video footage a bystander took of Floyd’s death while a now-former police officer pressed his knee into the man’s neck quickly went viral. But tensions between the police and black communities are nothing new. There were many precedents to the Ferguson, Missouri, protests that ushered in the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014. Those precedents include the Los Angeles riots...

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

Posted by Common Dreams | Jun 3, 2020 |

In response to the ideological cataclysm resulting from the coronavirus, the race has begun to replace a dying Neoliberalism. Three lines of thinking are emerging to fill that void. One is that the emergency necessitates extraordinary measures, but the basic structure of production and consumption is sound, and the problem lies only in determining the moment when things can return to “normal.” This is the dominant opinion among political and business elites. Representative of this outlook is the infamous Goldman Sachs-sponsored teleconference involving scores of stock market players in mid-March of this year, which concluded that “there is no...

When the oppressed have no acceptable way to fight back against their oppression

Posted by TheGuardian | May 31, 2020 |

A riot is the language of the unheard – The uncomfortable truth is that, sometimes, violence is the only answer left. When you are oppressed there is no acceptable way to fight against your oppression. You get branded “unpatriotic” for peacefully taking a knee to protest against police brutality. You get vilified for using boycotts as a non-violent tool of resistance. You get called “THUGS” when, after the murder of yet another unarmed black man by the police, you protest in the streets. The sickening video of George Floyd being killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, which...

A response to questions about “The Myth of Anti-Whiteness”

Posted by Reggie Jackson | May 24, 2020 |

A reader of my recent column THE MYTH OF ANTI-WHITENESS: WHEN TELLING THE TRUTH IS MISCHARACTERIZED AS ATTACKING WHITES questioned my assertion about Germans and Italians not being placed in interment camps. They pointed out to me that anyone can Google about internment and discover that “some 600,000 Italians who were undocumented were detained, relocated, stripped of property, placed under curfew” among other things. I appreciate any critiques and decided to investigate claims of Italians and Germans being placed in internment camps in the United States. They were, but the numbers were very small and there is no real...

Study shows Wisconsin’s April 7 in-person election resulted in explosion of new COVID-19 infections

Posted by Common Dreams | May 23, 2020 |

A new study published on May 18 showed a strong correlation between the April 7 in-person primary election in Wisconsin and an increase in coronavirus infections in the state, bolstering calls for a robust national vote-by-mail system for November. Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and Ball State University found clear spikes in cases in counties that had the most in-person voting locations on April 7, and found that far fewer new cases were confirmed in counties with widespread absentee ballot voting. Though public health experts had urged against holding the election due to the risks, the in-person voting was...