The Republican Bonfire

My review  of   The Color of Law     , a book by   Richard Rothstein : This carefully documented, eloquently argued history of U.S. government policies of overt racial segregation post-Jim Crow, and of the results of these policies, should be required reading, at least for all white Americans who've been inculcated with the myth of "de facto" segregation over the past fifty years (my lifetime). This is a book that breaks the narrative of illusions and lies essential to Trump's and Bannon's racist propaganda -- and ultimately, the facts of this book are part of what must be used to break the spell of lies propping up not only them, but the system of thought that allows white people no different from myself to believe in both gun-supported self-defense of themselves, and police war against black men who presumptively "appear" to be armed criminals.

I hereby declare myself a member of the Radical Republican Party, whose intent it is to displace the Republican Party as it stands in the two-party system of the Union. The Republican Party as it stands has demonstrated itself to be utterly compromised.  It is rotten to the core.  Hence two of the Radical Republican Party's founding principles must be: 1) The impeachment and removal from office of Donald Trump. 2) The dissolution of the existing Republican party and defeat at the polls of all Republicans in the U.S. Congress and the state houses of all American states or territories. Additionally, the Radical Republican Party chooses this moment to re-found on the principles of the Republican Party at the end of the War of Secession: 1) First and foremost, the process of making redress and reparation to the descendents of America's slave population must be picked up at the point of its abandonment, at the end of Reconstruction in 1877.  The entailments of redress...