controversies
It seems every time one racially-charged incident ends, a gender or religious controversy takes its place; Ruminate on the issues dividing our nation and world.
“Pay” Attention
On January 6, 2021, insurgents stormed the Capital. This is not new news. This is a fact. But what we are now learning about in the aftermath, is of the groups and the people that we may personally know or know of that were behind it. And how it was funded. This did not happen over night and most of these rioters did not have the means to leave their jobs mid-week, get an airline ticket last minute, pay for food and lodging, all on their own. Do you honestly think this money didn’t originate somewhere first?
By Meg Lagares5 years ago in The Swamp
No Laughing Matter: Taking Populism Seriously
The January 6th storming of the White House marked a turning point in the American political sphere. All of the US’s most prescient crises came into full relief and the inadequacy of our own government to protect itself from an attempted coup, one that began at the top with Donald Trump and trickled down through his allies to his followers, became startingly apparent. Irony seemed to rule the day. Complacency from the police seemed to confirm the police system’s complicity with America’s right populist movement, yet this clashed with the insurrectionist’s disparaging cries against the police when they started to respond to their rioting with force. In a moment of extreme dissonance, there appeared to be brief contact between the right and the BLM protests that they actively vilified and from which they gleaned (accurately) that the police were on their side. This inconsistency revealed to Trump supporters what the left has been saying all this time—the police serve the state and not the people.
By Darrin Gonzales5 years ago in The Swamp
My Response to the Killing of George Floyd
I was angery and I was sick with worry about what was going on in the country around the time that George Floyd was killed. I had emersed myself into social media at the detriment of my sanity. I did not want to see the video for fear of my own rage. I was afraid of what I would do, of what I would feel. A couple of weeks later I was reading a testimony of a bystander and there was a link. A little blue “here” link at the end of the sentence and I pushed it, and all of a sudden I was watching the murder of George Floyd. I know the word was that he was a criminal or that he was a bad person. I tried to rationalize it in my head to take race out of it, but now I am watching the brashness of the officer and the cries for help. and now I am angery. I am in rage, and I don’t know what to do. The following is what flowed out of me after watching that video.
By Alfonso Jaimes5 years ago in The Swamp
NHS Vaccination Cards
Written By: Leon Zadok - January 21, 2021 After months of hiding away and dodging one another in an attempt to avoid contagion, the coronavirus vaccine will, undoubtedly, bring much peace of mind to many. Now we see the light at the end of the tunnel.
By SNROCINUTAF5 years ago in The Swamp
Remembering MLK: Is This The America He Dreamed Of?
As my parents were watching TV today, a headline flashed across the screen: “MLK’s Dream Achieved.” I was taken aback by the statement— his dream was achieved? Certainly America is less segregated than it was back in 1963, but was this really the America he dreamed of? Anti-discrimination laws have been put in place and segregation has been outlawed. We even elected our first black president in 2008! These are truly wonderful achievements, and certainly what Martin Luther King Jr. strived for, but is this all that he dreamed of? Has his dream truly been achieved?
By Set Rose Speaks5 years ago in The Swamp
No, I Dont Want To Buy Your Black Lives Matter Or Martin Luther King Merchandise.
For years the racial injustice that African Americans have faced has been swept under the rug to be invalidated or ignored. We have been treated like nothing and then slammed for requiring common decency. As time passes and I see the world for what it is I also start seeing that everything that is given to us blacks has been solely to appease us in that time being. There are people who would say black lives matter only to also apply all lives matter in the same breath.
By Blue Dymond5 years ago in The Swamp
Second amendment what does it mean ?
Everybody knows we have amendments that the United States was founded on and for many reasons all of these amendments are in place to ensure we are a free country for example we all know the first amendment is freedom of speech which give us Americans the right to speak our minds freely without being ridiculed but what protects our freedom of speech and all our other amendments ? Well the answer is simple it is our second amendment.
By Sincity Tactical Minnesota Division5 years ago in The Swamp
Everything You Need To Know About The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: What Really Happened?
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade I’m sure we’re all familiar with the major features of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade: European merchant vessels exchanged manufactured and processed goods for human cargo along the western coasts of Africa. These persons were then sold as laborers to large-scale agricultural producers in South America, Southeastern North America, and the Caribbean in exchange for cash crops, which could then be resold in New England in exchange for the manufactured and processed goods needed to purchase yet more slaves. This is an oversimplified version of a classic ‘triangle trade’, but provides a good general overview of the concept, widely accepted by academics and historians.
By Nicholas A. Coombs5 years ago in The Swamp
