Tag: Black History
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Black History Month, Dred Scott & Me
by Montgomery Blair Sibley, ©2021, blogging at Amo Probos (Feb. 16, 2021) — I thought it appropriate at the half-way mark of “Black History Month” to add my two bits of Black History which necessarily includes “White History”; as if the two really can be separated. On July 4, 1854, Dred Scott publishes a…
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Black Anger: Who’s to Blame?
“CRUMBS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC TABLE” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2015 (May 1, 2015) — On the night of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black high school student from Miami, was shot to death during an unprovoked attack on neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old mixed-race Hispanic. The incident occurred when Martin…
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Pinning the Tail on the Donkey
WHO HAS REALLY ADVOCATED CIVIL RIGHTS FOR BLACKS? by Paul R. Hollrah (Mar. 12, 2015) — Two recent outrages following the 50th anniversary “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Alabama, require a pointed response to Democrats. First, a photograph of Barack Obama leading a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma is minus its most…