by Thomas Mills | Feb 12, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Last week, the State School Board passed new standards for teaching social studies to include information about racism, discrimination, and identity. Republicans, including Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, opposed the changes, claiming they are anti-American. I did...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 10, 2021 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog
Of all the failures of the Republican Party over the past few decades, their response to the coronavirus will be seen as the catalyst that led to the party’s demise. A little over a year after the first person succumbed to COVID, we now have more than 450,000 dead....
by Thomas Mills | Feb 9, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
An article in the Atlantic this morning points out that most of the people who stormed the Capitol were not affiliated with white nationalist gangs like the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers. Instead, they were predominantly middle-aged and middle-income Trump supporters who...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 8, 2021 | Editor's Blog
Elon University released a poll last week that showed a solid majority of North Carolinians believe Donald Trump bears responsibility for the attack on the Capitol. It also shows that a narrow plurality supports the impeachment proceedings against him and narrow...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 5, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Ok, here’s my unpopular opinion. Marjorie Taylor Greene should not have been stripped of her committee assignments. Sure, what she said is repugnant and she should be ostracized and ridiculed. However, the people of her district elected her and they should be the ones...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 4, 2021 | Editor's Blog
When I was a kid growing up, my mother taught us that prejudice, as we called racism, was intolerable. She once stopped using a babysitter who used the n-word while caring for us. She would not let my brother go home from school with one of his classmates because the...
