by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 18, 2013 | Civil Rights, NCGOP
The History Museum displays the hand-sewn KKK mask of a Stokes County planter. It is a fearsome garment, like a sock puppet with shark’s teeth, crowned by pointed cones and blood-red tassels. To hear Republicans tell it, the heritage of today’s Democrats is clothed in...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 24, 2013 | Civil Rights, NC Politics, Voting Rights |
It’s getting hard to believe that these people were elected in America. Personally, I gasped aloud after reading every proposal in the Senate’s new voter-discrimination bill. The legislation attacks democracy and American values so aggressively it’s hard to believe...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 23, 2013 | Civil Rights, Editor's Blog, Moral Monday, NCGA, NCGOP
After spending several days outside of the Triangle and talking to people who asked what the arrests in Raleigh were all about, I was going to write a blog, once again, urging the Moral Monday leaders to focus their message. I was also going to encourage them to lay...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 18, 2013 | Civil Rights, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP
One of the American people’s greatest shortcomings is their goldfish memory for history. Intensely present-minded, they make the same mistakes time and again, believing always that they are blazing new trails. North Carolina Republicans are no different. On issues of...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 10, 2013 | Civil Rights, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA |
It’s appropriate that the News & Observer’s tribute to Will Campbell is on the same day that clergy lead the Moral Monday protests. Brother Will would have approved. As a preacher during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s, he supported sit-ins and...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 16, 2013 | Civil Rights, NCGA
Whenever begins a new campaign of direct action, Americans must revisit Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The “Letter” is especially relevant to moderates who support with the protesters’ cause but disagree with their methods. For as King...
