2020 US Protests
Total 6 Posts
George Floyd protests show how the US has retreated from its position as a world leader.
5 min read
To be a world leader after 1945, the US had to be seen to be anti-racist. Now it no longer cares who is watching.
Wild Bill.
1 min read
I like to think that President Trump’s photo op stunt at St. John’s Episcopal Church last week may have given this grizzled servant of the White House, Bill Barr, pause and get him to re-think his bizarre beliefs about the power of the presidential office.
The world takes a knee.
4 min read
Taking a knee, an act of defiance and resistance, updates nonviolent protest gestures for a multimedia age.
Disrespect and lying on Martin and Malcolm in the name of protesting.
8 min read
This past week the best and worst of protesting in America was on display, Isaac Newton Farris Jr. writes.
The President of Law and Order?
5 min read
Trump wants to divert us from the horrible job he’s done with the coronavirus pandemic, the embarrassing job he has done for us in the world, as he fails to try to get re-elected.