Month: November 2022

Virginia Republican Governor Youngkin is using ham-handed sleight-of-hand methods to return the State to the Byrd machine days of the 1950s and 1960s massive resistance to integration. And he is doing so by using Byrd’s way of manipulating the education curriculum. During Governor Northam’s administration, many leaders admitted that the miseducation of Virginians needed to … [Read more…]

Democrats did better than expected in the past election, but they could have done better. On Wednesday, November 9, the day after the elections, I listened to many post-mortem commentaries and analyses. I was struck by the comments of a Black caller from Georgia who had volunteered for Senator Warnock’s campaign. He had volunteered to … [Read more…]