Here Comes the Insurrection Act

Renée Good's Death is the Flower of Trump's Psychopathy I wonder if anyone else has had the feelings of numbness, of helplessness and despair, of unreality and dissociation, that I have had these past few days. There is an image, a video clip, really, that I can't get out of my brain. It loops on … Continue reading Here Comes the Insurrection Act

A convenient hero…

... and a broken promise. Frederick Douglass, from a speech delivered in Rochester, N.Y., 1852. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, A BLACK MAN who escaped from slavery in the state of Maryland and through monumental efforts of self-education and determination became one of the most celebrated abolitionists, activists, writers, orators and statesmen of the nineteenth-century, is celebrated as … Continue reading A convenient hero…