There are 10-12 million Roma in the European Union alone. Hundreds of thousands more in the Middle East, Russia, etc. At least a million people in the US are of Romani ancestry or 100% Romani. Finally, Romani people were enslaved in Romania, and some slaves were bought by the British & sent to the New World as…

Uh, it is. We need to ask ourselves WHY we don’t even know who the Roma are (my grandfather was Romani). There are 10-12 million Roma in the European Union alone. Hundreds of thousands more in the Middle East, Russia, etc. At least a million people in the US are of Romani ancestry or 100% Romani. Finally, Romani…

My grandfather was Romani. I am past getting too pissed when people call us Gypsies, although it is outdated and is drenched with hate and racism in countries with significant Romani minorities - even though the name originally comes from the mistaken notion that Roma are originally from Egypt.  But watch out if you…

Yeah, I do. They were actually Bush phones, so the fuckers lied about that, too.

Yeah, pretty clear this story is about a very disturbed 12 year old that needs psychiatric intervention and extremely Anti-Asian, racist, violent family.

Hate to tell ya, but critical thinking in most schools went the way of the dodo a long time ago. And yes, it was absolutely deliberate. Can’t have white, Black, Indigenous, and Brown people uniting a la Fred Hampton (exactly why he was a victim of a government death squad).

Agree 100 percent.

“All I can say is that applying the morals and ethics of today to people who lived and died 250 years ago does not make them racists by their standards. Just ours.”

They are never going to stop until they are forced to pay for these awards on account of their brutality from their “unions” (aka a criminal rackets) and pension funds. Until then, We the Taxpayers will continue to cough the millions upon millions up for their murderous malfeasance. Maybe we should start suing the…

That IS the definition of White Supremacy. Are you being obtuse or do you really believe that white supremacy is different than you describe?

That’s exactly why he decided to take his trip. Because he damn well knows there will be no consequences.

Ma taught me always to say something good about the dead.

How do you KNOW that he didn’t try and try again to do that through his work? He’s one person in a sea of racism and injustice. Also, how about WE all do 0ur part, while we are choosing to live, t0 bring our insights and experience to help bring about the change he believed in, instead of shaming him? FFS, some of the…

His porn stash included infants being raped. As a private foundation and periodical, the Poetry Foundation and Poetry were under no obligation to feature him, and it was a grotesque, shocking oversight to not vet him. Any reputable journal worth its salt does this with any submission.

I worked a number of years with Harold Wilson, a Black man from Philadephia who spent 13 yrs. on death row for a crime in Philly he didn’t commit. He died in 2019 at age 61, penniless & in extremely poor health, in part from PTSD contracted from the years he spent in solitary confinement as an innocent man. He did not…

If they were brown-skinned and/or Muslim, it would have been.

The only thing surprising about this is that she served 10 years for her sadistic, racist abuse of her power.

Yeah, I live in Buffalo and you don’t have to travel far at all to see Confederate flags. We make fun of Pennsylvania for being Pennsyltucky, but NYS is very much the same, with great rural poverty and a very Trumplandia feel in between Buffalo and NYC. Hell, even South Buffalo and the immediate towns north and south…

I don’t even know what to say anymore when I read about my fellow white people like these pathetic women. Failure of our education system; ignorance as a badge of pride; racism (because racism is ALWAYS an integral part of it, if not entirely); RWNJ radio & TV; anti-intellectualism; know-nothingness; selfishness; love…

Love this idea. This is exactly what should happen. An outdoor museum so people never forget, that won’t allow them to forget, our history. This goes for monuments of those involved in massacres of our indigenous populations. And then get the wealthy to fund outreach and school and field trips of especially white…