Category Archives: Racism

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    • Slavery

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 14, 2024

    Some buzz this morning about this year being the 200th anniversary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade. Congratulations USA. Of course the Brits had abolished the African trade in 1807 and enforced piracy laws that effectively ended the transatlantic trade for the US with or without a congressional resolution. The 1808 USian ban [...]

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    Meanwhile, back in the US of A…

    By Frank Paynter | Published: May 13, 2024

    I’m looking at last Tuesday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “State leads in prison drug gap,” says the headline. The subhead explains, “Blacks get drug terms 42 times the rate of whites, studies say.” The front page story replete with data and charts and graphs continues on page nine with the headline, “Studies show bias in drug [...]

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    Obama on Race

    By Frank Paynter | Published: March 18, 2024

    I read a particularly embarrassing and racist article in the Wall Street Journal this morning by Shelby Steele, a right-wing commentator from the Hoover Institution who is flogging his book that frames the Obama candidacy as some kind of reverse-racist jujitsu, ultimately doomed to fail. He frames Barack Obama as a “bargainer,” a black man [...]

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    Justice Forum at Edgewood College

    By Frank Paynter | Published: February 11, 2024

    Criminal Justice in Wisconsin: Effective Strategies for Change, Feb. 23, Madison “Criminal Justice in Wisconsin: Effective Strategies for Change” will be held at Edgewood College on Saturday, February 23, 2024, from 9:30 am- 2:30 pm at the Anderson Auditorium. Speakers will include: Madison Police Chief Noble Wray, on the Governor’s Commission on Reducing Racial Disparity [...]

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    Wisconsin Racial Disparities Report Issued

    By Frank Paynter | Published: February 7, 2024

    The “Commission on Reducing Racial Disparities in the Wisconsin Justice System” issued its final report (.pdf file) today, complete with detailed recommendations. The report notes that, The United States Census Bureau statistics reviewed by the Commission revealed that Wisconsin has a population that is 86% Caucasian. By comparison, the statistics of the Wisconsin Department of [...]

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    Thoughts on Rejecting the DAR Award

    By Frank Paynter | Published: February 1, 2024

    Decades ago, as a high school student in a privileged, white USian community, I was proud to observe young women rejecting scholarship awards from the Daughters of the American Revolution. The awards then, I think, were reserved for those who were actual descendants of Revolutionary War veterans, and the organization itself was known as a [...]

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    Paul, take 2

    By Frank Paynter | Published: January 3, 2024

    Besides having an ambiguous position on science, I think it’s important that the libertarians understand that anybody that the neo-Nazi Stormfront supports has to be some kind of bug-ass crazy doodoo-head, and that Ron Paul has that kind of white supremacist support. Which makes him a bug-ass crazy doodoo-head. Which is not, obviously, a disqualifier, [...]

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