San Francisco It is unclear what the National Football League owners wanted to accomplish with their new rule about how to handle anthem protests. The players’ union is clear that this is a unilateral rule change without consultation or bargaining, which should mean that it is dead on arrival and violates labor law. Player protestors …
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Past Time to Remember Slavery
New Orleans The scars of slavery haven’t healed. Evidence abounds in the open wounds of blatant racism and deep-seeded, systemic discrimination towards African-Americans which manifests itself from top to bottom in our political, financial, and cultural experiences in the country that date from slavery until today, and, sadly, tomorrow. The existence of slavery and its …
The New HUD Seems OK with Racial Discrimination
Little Rock It has become a modern foundation of public policy, following Rahm Emanuel, now the Mayor of Chicago, and earlier when the comment was attributed to him when he was chief of staff for President Obama, to “…never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Like Katrina a dozen years ago, many governmental policy …