by Thomas Mills | Jun 17, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
The News & Observer’s conservative columnist Peder Zane makes an argument that I’ve heard frequently since the unrest over George Floyd’s death. “It is no longer enough to be non-racist,” he writes. “Now we must be anti-racist – that is, we must devote...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 11, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
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...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 1, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
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...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 12, 2019 | Editor's Blog |
This morning The Atlantic published an article about the transfer of millions of acres of land from African-Americans to corporations in Mississippi. It comes on the heels of a story published in the New Yorker by ProPublica writer Lizzie Presser about black families...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 18, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
Donald Trump brought his white people’s rally to Greenville yesterday and didn’t disappoint. He continued his attack on the so-called Squad, again accusing Rep. Ilhan Omar of supporting Al Qaeda. The crowd responded by chanting “Send her back.” Trump watched proudly...
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