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Pat McCrory: The Most Spineless Politician

by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 16, 2016 | Civil Rights, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGov, Veterans, Women's Rights | 22 comments

Pat McCrory is setting the record for Most Spineless Politician. Since getting elected, he’s repeatedly trashed his own purported principles, and refused to own his decisions. He’s got no backbone, no courage, and no right to be taken seriously. McCrory’s history of...

HB2 and the Return of Massive Resistance

by Alexander H. Jones | May 5, 2016 | Civil Rights, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP, NCGov | 25 comments

So the hammer has fallen. The Department of Justice has declared HB2 violates the Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Needless to say, these findings portend disaster. GOP leaders’ response has been just as disturbing. It is...

Monuments should go

by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 19, 2015 | Civil Rights | 6 comments

One could say there are two “schools of thought” regarding monuments. Their subject matter could mark them as vessels of collective memory. Alternatively, there is a competing, present-minded view. Because monuments are placed by democratic governments in...

Voter frauds

by Thomas Mills | Jul 15, 2015 | Civil Rights, Editor's Blog, Voting Rights | 32 comments

If the North Carolina Republican party is attacking William Barber, then William Barber is winning. Barber’s not on the ballot and he’s not an officer of the North Carolina Democratic Party. He’s head of the North Carolina NAACP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization...

A different kind of monument

by Thomas Mills | Jul 9, 2015 | Civil Rights, Editor's Blog | 5 comments

Those “activists” who think they are making a difference by tagging monuments to Confederate veterans should think again. Instead of building support for removing the statues, they’re solidifying support for keeping them. Somebody has to pay for cleaning up the...

Why the flag debate matters

by Thomas Mills | Jun 29, 2015 | Civil Rights, Editor's Blog | 3 comments

Progressives claiming that the flag debate is a distraction have missed the point. As President Obama made so clear in his eulogy for Clementa Pinckney, a racist white guy tried to start a race war by killing nine African-Americans in a church. Instead, he forced...