Racist disinformation 101 time. A new poisonous “freedom” letter demonstrates that its drafters constructed a description of a racist case with the racial dimension removed, addressed to a rector who had spent March publicly handling exactly that. Ghent University under fire for appointing US philosopher with ties to ‘scientific racism’…. In a blog post from … Continue reading Who Signed the Arday Lynching Letter Defending Cofnas?
Have you seen the toxic campaign by the guy in Virginia who Hegseth just appointed to lead the Navy? It’s a lynching coin. In case that photo is a little too shiny, here’s the raw image; simply a noose, hanging an animal, invoking both Virginia and Navy violent racist history. Let’s run a thought experiment. … Continue reading Hegseth Says Lynching Noose Campaigner is Head of Navy
Recently I pointed out that US charging station cable theft has been a growing problem for years. And core to that story is the simple analysis that cables are unnecessary for charging stations. EV owners should bring their own cables to plug into a socket. A new Gravity announcement proves the problem, with a design … Continue reading New Gravity “Charging Tree” Design Invokes Lynchings: Proves Yet Again US Needs EV Sockets
I found the following reflection on the national lynching memorial interesting because it shows the power of subtraction to display a failure in redress. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history at the Harvard Kennedy School who studies truth and reconciliation efforts from Belfast to Rwanda, believes that memorializing victims of structural racism is an … Continue reading Unclaimed U.S. Lynching Monuments Display Lack of Redress