Fake news leads to fake history
We’ve all heard the saying “History is written by the winners.” In the South, history was written by the losers and the winners let them get away with it. The story of the Civil War that white people told for the past one hundred twenty years or so is wrong. Today,...
The sheet is off
The sheet is off. Donald Trump has decided that he is only president of reactionary white Americans. As a national awakening begins reshaping the nation’s opinions on race, Trump is sending a clear message that he opposes any movement toward addressing the wrongs done...
Removing symbols of white supremacy will be the easy part
The country is continuing its remarkable shift toward acknowledging the racism that has plagued our nation. Confederate monuments and statues are falling daily. Despite opposition from the president, the military is ready to rename military bases that bear the names...
An audience of one
Political ad buys in recent weeks offer insight into the Trump White House and exposes Trump’s pathological dysfunction. They show a man with little self-control or self-awareness who is easily triggered, as the kids say. The whole episode is also hilarious. The...
A seminal moment in history
I believe we are living in an extraordinary moment right now. Fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the country is about to take another major step toward rectifying racial injustice, this time shifting attitudes as much as laws. A new generation...
Dueling polls
Two polls came out this week from pollsters who regularly survey the state. One polls primarily for progressives and Democrats. The other polls for conservatives and Republicans. They had very similar results for gubernatorial contests but diverged on the U.S. Senate...
Trump stiffs Charlotte. He can stick it.
Donald Trump announced he’s pulling the Republican National Convention out of Charlotte. As far as I’m concerned, good riddance. It wasn’t going to be nominating convention, anyway. It was going to be a three day COVID-spreading Trump rally full of sycophants kissing...
Enough!
Republicans are losing the national narrative. They’ve followed Trump and their own base down a dead end road that’s leaving them further and further from an emerging American majority that will guide this nation in the future. They keep falling back on tired tropes...
The festering wound of inequality and racism
What we are seeing in America right now is a reckoning. The video-taped killing of George Floyd was the catalyst for the explosion of anger, but the underlying problems have been simmering for decades. The unrest is deeper than the unjustified deaths of unarmed...
Another race to watch
Full disclosure: I work with the Timmons-Goodson for Congress Campaign. That said, the inclusion of Timmons-Goodson in the Red to Blue program makes NC-08 a top-tier Congressional race that will impact the broader political landscape in North Carolina. Yesterday,...
