I grew up in Jackson MS just as Jim Crow segregation was being phased out. I remember the separate public toilets, water fountains, waiting rooms, etc. Most of all, I remember the racial hate, degradation, and violence. The facilities are no longer segregated, but a huge current of racial animosity persists. It continues to hurt people and our country. In fact, it has erupted in the trump era.
Today, let’s kick off Black History Month with a few words from Langston Hughes…
What do the good folks of Greenland say about El Trumpo’s obsession with acquiring their homeland? Well… quite a bit.
I don’t want to screw around with them… I’m just saying.
https://youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U
“How many people who have been committed of sex crimes or crimes against children are in charge of detention centers where there’s no oversight, where people won’t be missed and won’t be believed? The horror, it just — it boggles the mind how bad this really is.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/14/laura_jedeed_ice?jwsource=cl
“They didn’t ask very many questions.” Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despite never signing any paperwork, not having completed a background check, likely failing a drug test, and publicly sharing her opposition to the Trump administration and its anti-immigrant crackdown. “It seems like the answer to the question, 'Who are they hiring?' is: They don’t know.”
A sobering analysis, especially if you think using our military to murder people in small boats in the Caribbean is as low as this administration can get…
“When the authoritarian worldview starts to collapse, the leader starts expanding his imagined powers. Mussolini did this. Late-stage Berlusconi did this. So did Ceaușescu. It’s not a coincidence. It’s a pattern.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycemstrong/p/trumps-auto-pen-delusion?r=5n7el&utm_medium=ios
