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Breonna Taylor Was ‘Just Another Black Woman’

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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump and his Nazi army share one irrevocable belief: “if your ethnicity is Black, Hispanic, Asian, or anything other than pure white from Western Europe or South Africa, you are not worthy of being an American citizen.” He wants you to leave America by choice or by force. On March 12, 2020, an emergency room technician was shot to death after being woken by Louisville, Kentucky, police officers broke down her door. Breonna Taylor was a 26-year-old Black woman who was lying in bed with her boyfriend. Taylor died when officer Brett Hankison fired his weapon, which was later determined to be an “act of excessive violence.” The police had invaded the wrong address. After a trial, Hankison was convicted. However, Trump and his racist Department of Justice made a purely racially biased decision regarding his punishment. [President Donald Trump’s Justice Department wants the cop convicted of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights to serve just one day in jail—and sug...

Big Wins for Democrats on Tuesday

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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   Republican’s fascist, anti-women policies are the reasons they suffered huge losses in Tuesday’s elections. Right-wing politicians oppose every issue favored by most of our nation’s people. June 24, 2022 was one of the darkest days in American history. On this day six Republican-appointed justices overturned a 49-year-old decision by a legitimate Supreme Court known as Roe v Wade. This was a brazen attack on all women, removing protections for their decisions regarding unwanted pregnancies, or pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. These five men and one female religious extremist decided that women were third-class citizens without the right to decide the fate of their personal mental and physical health. The next day I predicted Republican losses in future elections. Tuesday’s results were symbolic of how America will reject backward thinking Republicans and support forward thinking Independents and Democrats. This was the leading paragraph in an NPR...