HERBERT DYER
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Jesse Jackson Disses 'Moderate' Joe Biden, Endorses Bernie Sanders
On Sunday, March 8, 2020, the Rev. Jesse Jackson gave a full-throated endorsement of Democratic Party presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT). This defining imprimatur comes just before both Tuesday’s pivotal primary in Michigan and the Illinois primary on March 17. Both states feature significant numbers of African American voters, who may be crucial, if not definitive, in determining both the Democratic Party’s nominee and the direction of the party itself for the foreseeable future.
By HERBERT DYER4 years ago in The Swamp
White Parents Force Suspension of 'White Studies' High School Course
This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again. — James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, 1955 In an attempt to deny the existence of systemic or institutional racism, white parents of students at a high school in Wisconsin’s Delavan-Darien School District have successfully had “American Diversity,” a course on the subject, banned from the curriculum. The parents object to the teaching that “minorities” have been (and continue to be) oppressed by white people.
By HERBERT DYER4 years ago in The Swamp
Black People Ask: Can You Hear Us Now?
The viral video of a white, solidly middle-class, University of Utah Hospital Head Nurse, one Alex Wubbels, being manhandled and thrown into the back of a police car because she refused to comply with a Salt Lake City cop’s unlawful order is only the latest confirmation of black peoples’ centuries-long complaints of police brutality.
By HERBERT DYER4 years ago in Criminal
Cops Offer To Clean Coronavirus From Illegal Drugs
ow comes word that at least two dozen police departments throughout the US have posted “official” misinformation on Facebook claiming that the coronavirus may have contaminated illegal substances, particularly Methamphetamine. According to BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post, cops are using social media to entice individuals into bringing their illegal drugs to police stations for “testing” for the presence of the deadly virus.
By HERBERT DYER4 years ago in Criminal