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Rather Than Fight Change, Embrace It, White Nationalists!

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Yeah, we may have our differences, but what does that have to do with real-time and potential real-time friendships?!                         [ Commons Image from Stock Adobe]

 

By Dan Bodine

 

Change. And ghosts of early White Nationalism! In a few months, it’ll be 39 years ago when as a white journalist/editor I was verbally attacked by early White Nationalists — e.g., for supporting a mixed-race Housing Project in the most affluent part of Cleburne, TX. It was Hate.

The project’s clients would include African Americans and was the leadoff item on a P&Z meeting. Could there be lessons for today’s “White Nationalists”? Feel free to comment. Continue reading →

Whiteness, Straw Man, and How Electrons Move

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There’s often a “straw man” argument behind someone’s political opposition.

        By Dan Bodine

Hee, hee! Ain’t got a bone to pick but sure got a yarn to tell! A compassionate African American assuaged my bruised ego in the Navy once when I allowed myself to feel like the dumbest kernel of corn on the cobb! So, with migrants and minorities both now under fire, you can mix your races, yes — but you can’t segregate human lightbulbs! We all shine some! Savvy?

Me, coming up with this?  Yeah, me! Even an ol’ slow country boy from Texas has learnt a thing or two about Life. Hang on; don’t go to sleep. This is really against using straw men, or the Boogeyman, in politics! Continue reading →

African-Americans, Whites and Empire’s Big Lie

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Emmett Till, 14, was lynched by a mob in 1955, falsely accused of ‘touching‘ a white woman’s arm. Today he and his mom’s Chicago home is a designated landmark home. (Images courtesy)

Longtime California Atty. Doug Emhoff says he’s basking in his interracial role as the nation’s first Second Gentleman. His wife, Kamala Harris, is the first woman and the first African-American to be elected as U.S. Vice President! (Image link)

 

By Dan Bodine

Yeah, I’m soapy at fortune-telling, which this piece gets into! I’m a political junkie — e.g., always sensing for the next cusp! This one’s been a while in coming, yes!

But you have to be a little blind not to see a cultural reckoning happening among us now. For example: Continue reading →