CURRENT EVENTS - April

[05C40]

I hope Charles's people checked the address of the Four Seasons that Trump's people got him booked in...

Hey, what are you getting at? Those lawns at Windsor Castle DO NOT mow themselves!

 

[Zoo_View]

I was reading this thinking, "Man, people were awful 'back-then'." But then I remembered 40 years ago was . . . 1986 . . .!?!?!?! I am not doubting the veracity of your story one bit. But this was not some long ago tale of before I was born. I was a grown-ass man with a salaried job and a family to support in 1986. Man o' man, my generation REALLY SUCKED!

Nebraska was the first state to outlaw marital rape…….in 1976.

All 50 states had finally outlawed marital rape in 1993 when Oklahoma and, wait for it, North Carolina outlawed marital rape.

We Americans haven’t exactly been civilized regarding rape and/or sexual assault.

 

[hedge]

Esp. the rapists...

 

[Icky Mettle]

Nebraska was the first state to outlaw marital rape…….in 1976.

All 50 states had finally outlawed marital rape in 1993 when Oklahoma and, wait for it, North Carolina outlawed marital rape.

We Americans haven’t exactly been civilized regarding rape and/or sexual assault.

I’ve always thought of Nebraska as the most progressive state.

 

[Zoo_View]

I’ve always thought of Nebraska as the most progressive state.

Well, we know where our beloved North Carolina fits…..with Alabama and Arkansas and Mississippi and South Carolina and West Virginia and Oklahoma and Kentucky and other red parts of the US……aside from the RTP, Charlotte, Boone, non-rural parts of the Triad, Asheville, maybe Wilmington (all those Trumplicans moving into Brunswick County are swinging that area hard right).

 

[Mulberry Heel]

I’ve always thought of Nebraska as the most progressive state.

It used to be. The great Populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan of "Cross of Gold" fame was from Nebraska, and he blistered the Gilded Age business tycoons and their corruption in his speeches. And for many years Nebraska was represented by the great Congressman and Senator George Norris, a liberal Republican back when they still existed, and he worked with progressive Republicans and Democrats in Congress to create and pass many New Deal measures. Ted Sorensen, JFK's famous speechwriter and top aide, was from Nebraska, and his father was a progressive Republican State Attorney General there. I do think the state has gone in a very conservative direction (outside of Lincoln, which is more liberal) but for a long time it was progressive, no doubt.

 

[Zoo_View]

It used to be. The great Populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan of "Cross of Gold" fame was from Nebraska, and he blistered the Gilded Age business tycoons and their corruption in his speeches. And for many years Nebraska was represented by the great Congressman and Senator George Norris, a liberal Republican back when they still existed, and he worked with progressive Republicans and Democrats in Congress to create and pass many New Deal measures. Ted Sorensen, JFK's famous speechwriter and top aide, was from Nebraska, and his father was a progressive Republican State Attorney General there. I do think the state has gone in a very conservative direction (outside of Lincoln, which is more liberal) but for a long time it was progressive, no doubt.

Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Iowa, and Montana and other states were strongly influenced by the Farmers and Labor parties across the Upper Plains…..hell, Oklahoma was. So was the Tar Heel State.

“Modern” Christo-Nationalists have taken control of the GOP.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Iowa, and Montana and other states were strongly influenced by the Farmers and Labor parties across the Upper Plains…..hell, Oklahoma was. So was the Tar Heel State.

“Modern” Christo-Nationalists have taken control of the GOP.

Truth. In the 1890s white, mostly farmer Populists and black and white Republicans united to form a "fusion" political ticket that gave them control of the NC state government for about six years. And the legislatures they controlled passed some pretty remarkable reforms for the time. Unfortunately in 1898 white Southern Democrats, frightened and angry at losing political control of the state, stirred up racial prejudice and hatred to split the fusionists and regain power in a very ugly, very blatant white supremacy campaign, even for that time. The infamous Wilmington insurrection of 1898 was part of it, and hundreds of blacks died in it. But while they lasted, those fusion legislatures did some real good for the state.

 

[Zoo_View]

Truth. In the 1890s white, mostly farmer Populists and black and white Republicans united to form a "fusion" political ticket that gave them control of the NC state government for about six years. And the legislatures they controlled passed some pretty remarkable reforms for the time. Unfortunately in 1898 white Southern Democrats, frightened and angry at losing political control of the state, stirred up racial prejudice and hatred to split the fusionists and regain power in a very ugly, very blatant white supremacy campaign, even for that time. The infamous Wilmington insurrection of 1898 was part of it, and hundreds of blacks died in it. But while they lasted, those fusion legislatures did some real good for the state.

Let’s not call it an “insurrection.”

Let’s call it what it was.

A bloody, violent coup wrought by some whites against mostly black citizens.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Let’s not call it an “insurrection.”

Let’s call it what it was.

A bloody, violent coup wrought by some whites against mostly black citizens.

I don't disagree, I was just using the commonly used term. The best term would be a race massacre. They actually used to call it a race riot, as if blacks started it and it wasn't just a one-sided massacre of Wilmington blacks at the hands of white supremacists. And some white Republicans were threatened as well, including the city's duly elected mayor, who was literally run out of town at gunpoint.