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Category Archives: Racism

John Scott: Trump voters aren’t racists, they just vote for one

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Today, the New London Day, exercising its usual bad judgment, gave front page prominence to this article, in which we are told that an outraged John Scott, speaking out in his role as the chair of the Groton Republican Town Committee (now dominated by right wing loonies), has demanded the resignation of Democratic Town Councilor […]

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The Day Opines

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

The New London Day has called on Roseanne Kotowski to resign from the Groton Representative Town Meeting, and State Rep. Craig Fishbein to resign as well, since like Roseanne, he has outed himself as a racist. I’ve written about Roseanne here and here. To briefly recap her story: she sent an email to Groton Town […]

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No reason to wallow

Monday, November 26, 2018

This is one of many blog posts I’ve read recently crowing about the number of corporations demanding their money back from Cindy Hyde-Smith after she let her racist flag fly a little too high. Among those sending bribe money her way was Major League Baseball. Now that she has announced to the world that she is […]

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Racist to the core

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, is a black Republican. In my humble opinion, that’s a little like being a Jewish Nazi, a sign either of overweening cynicism or overwhelming stupidity. That being said, it appears Scott, unlike a certain Supreme Court justice whose name shall go unmentioned, retains a shred, as miniscule as it […]

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Who could have predicted this?

Monday, June 11, 2018

A while back I wrote some posts inspired by a history of the Gilded Age, my main point being that we’re reliving that era now in many respects. I don’t think I mentioned that during that age the South, particularly, came up with various ways to criminalize being black. It was one of many ways […]

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A new twist on gerrymandering

Monday, May 14, 2018

We’ve all read various news stories about the fact that many of Trump’s policies will adversely and disproportionately affect the idiots who voted for him. Turns out that might not be the case, as Republicans resort to a new twist on one of their favorite ways to insure that the will of the minority prevails. […]

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