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Thom's blog
We Need To Defeat the White Supremacy Virus
 From the first colonization of North America, guns have been the principle instrument to enforce white supremacy. This racialized violence isn't new. From the Slave Patrols of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries to the reincarnation of the Klan after the movie Birth Of A Nation came out early in the 20th century, to the Turner Diaries novel animating an entire new generation of white racist terrorists, The economic and political undercurrent of American culture and politics has always been one of white supremacy. It is not only rising in America right now, but in Europe and Australia as well. Until this poisonous thought virus is defeated, it will continue to function like a cancer in our society. We need to make it as much a criminal act to advocate white supremacy as it is to advocate the cause of ISIS and Al Qaeda. Reasonable gun control, like regulating guns the way we do cars, is also an important first step." -Thom |
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Thom's blog
The disturbing link between modern-day mass shootings and slave patrols
While, in the wake of the El Paso murders, the media and most of our politicians are acting shocked-"shocked, I tell you!"-that there are armed racists in America who are trying to terrify people of color, the reality is that it's pretty much always been that way here in the United States. And until white Americans and the media they control acknowledge that simple history, we won't be able to do the things we must to change it. While we need rational gun control, this isn't a gun control issue. While we need economic security to be more widely shared, this isn't an economic issue. While we need universal, free, high-quality K-PhD education, this isn't an education issue. While the Republican Party needs to repudiate the "Southern Strategy" that has animated their racist base since 1968, this isn't a political issue. Read more here. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: We Need to Defeat the White Supremacy Virus...
Quote: " The time has come for Americans of all races and creeds and political beliefs to understand and to respect one another. So let us put an end to the teaching and the preaching of hate and evil and violence. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law, and those who pour venom into our Nation's bloodstream." - Lyndon B. Johnson. Tweet: " How many more people have to DIE violent deaths at racist hands before impeaching the president for inciting white nationalist terrorism and violence is taken as seriously as impeaching him for obstructing justice? The real national emergency is Donald J. Trump's terrorism." by Laurence Tribe. Tweet: " According to Facebook's ad archive, Trump has run around 2,200 FB ads since May 2018 mentioning the word "invasion." Scrolling through, all of them seem to be about immigration." by Natalie Martinez. Tweet: " The violence this weekend was perpetrated by extremists from both sides of the political spectrum. It's clear that those using these tragedies to attack @potus and others are shortsighted. It's time to put politics aside, come together and address this evil with determination." by Jim Banks.
Hour Two: The President says he loves America but he has shattered it in two...- Dr. Justin A. Frank, MD, Psychoanalyst & Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science-George Washington University / Author- Trump On the Couch (Previous books include Obama on the Couch & Bush on the Couch) 
Quote: " you also had people that were very fine people on both sides" - Donald Trump.
Article: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.Article: " 13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Article: " 5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation) |
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