by Thomas Mills | Sep 7, 2017 | Editor's Blog, Race |
Republicans are a party of white people. They have been for the past 50 years though they’re loath to admit it. What’s different now is that instead denying it, candidates are embracing it. Donald Trump owes his presidency to thinly veiled appeals to racists and white...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 18, 2017 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, Race |
When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he supposedly told an aide, “We (Democrats) have lost the South for a generation.” If he really said that, he missed it by a couple of generations. After 50 years, the South is still solidly Republican. That’s a...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 17, 2017 | Editor's Blog, North Carolina, Race |
My great-grandfather, George Stephens, lived a remarkable life. He was born in 1873 near Summerfield in Guilford County into a family of excommunicated Quakers. His father died when he was very young and was raised by his mother. An outstanding athlete, he attended...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 16, 2017 | Editor's Blog, Politics, Race |
Some of the folks on the right are having a hard time distinguishing between the antifa protesters on the left and the white supremacists who marched on Charlottesville. Let me help you out. The ones with assault weapons, body armor and small arms are white...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 1, 2016 | Civil Rights, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, Race |
Regardless of whether they were Democrats, Republicans, or some other party, conservatives in this country have been consistently wrong on matters of race for the entire history of our nation. They opposed ending slavery when our Founding Fathers wrote the...
by James Kotecki | Aug 3, 2016 | Civil Rights, Gun Control, Issues, PODCAST, Politics, Race, The North Carolinian
Durham City Councilwoman Jillian Johnson sparked controversy this summer when she wrote on Facebook note that “the most dangerous people with guns are cops and soldiers.” Can a fiercely progressive, community-organizing “radical nerd” change the system from the inside...
