Tag: slavery

Very many estimates and some prominent columnists predict that Donald Trump will be elected President for a second term.

The government’s ineffective measures have allowed the number of African Americans killed by the police in the U.S. to increase rather than decrease in the two years since the Floyd case.

Coming from a working-class Pennsylvania family, [Biden] also knows the inequalities that plague the country.

The U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands, France, Spain and Portugal still bear collective ethical responsibility for the wrongs their societies committed in the past.

For Trump’s election campaign, the fight against Black Lives Matter has become central.

Today Americans are voting with their feet in the streets and their dollars to push everyone, businesses included, to end police brutality and mass incarceration.

History is fluid. People are not inert. Our people have the right to demand that the names of any historical figure be erased from our streets.

[T]here is is clearly no risk that one will suffer amnesia if statues are removed, no risk of erasing the collective memory of swaths of history integral to a people’s identity.

The irony is that the Europeans who were illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and criminals in their home countries or fugitives from the law have populated all of the Americas.

There is no denying America’s history of systemic racism, but could these anti-racism activists, with their bipolar view of the world, end up giving racists just the tools they need to pursue their venal agenda?