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Showing posts with label discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discrimination. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Why Pointing Out and Righting an Injustice is Everybody's Business

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by Nomad It's disheartening to think that the color of a person's skin can still have such a effect on people's attitude...
Friday, April 15, 2016

A Wall So High: Senator Sam Ervin and North Carolina's Controversial Potty Police Law

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by Nomad With his Southern drawl, dry wit, and country-lawyer persona, Senator Sam Ervin became a national hero to many during the Wat...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

An Insidious Evil: Voting Rights Act, the SCOTUS Blunder and Voter ID Laws

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by Nomad A couple of years ago, one of the great legislative achievements from the 1960s was all but dismantled. Strange too since only s...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Plantation Politics: How Some in the Old South Continue to Deny the Evils of Slavery

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by Nomad Can racism ever be extinguished in the USA when there are still some people who wish to ignore the inhumanity of slavery and to ...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Segregation and Dot Counts: What History Tells Us about Resistance to Progress

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by Nomad If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the story behind this photograph? The young woman's name is Dorothy Counts...
Monday, December 8, 2014

How We Came to Accept Police Brutality as the Norm 1/2

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by Nomad With all the protests around the country against abusive law enforcement, it is a good time to ask how we as a country got i...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

The Dangerous Deceptions of Justice Antonin Scalia

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by Nomad As a Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been the most outspoken of all of the judges. His ultra-conservative views are...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Controversial Arizona Bill Protects Homophobic Discrimination as Religious Right

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by Nomad New draft legislation in Arizona would give citizens the right to refuse service to gay customers based on their own religi...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Election Night, Cargo Bar- 2008

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by Nomad I t was exactly four years ago. Another election night with all of the apprehension and lip-biting that goes with the politic...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Apple Stores: More Discrimination. Not So Thinly Disguised

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Apple Stores in Georgia Won’t Sell iPads to People Speaking Farsi WSB-TV in Alpharetta, Georgia has interviews with two people who ...