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Let me explain what “white skin privilege” means from my vantage as a black feminist.  It refers to having the space to cultivate “delicate sensibilities” in a world that demands focus.  I’m not referring here to upholding or failing to uphold ones...

Recently I was invited to sign a petition on Daily Kos to ban assault rifles. I don’t recall the last Daily Kos petition I disagreed with. I’m pretty much in agreement to some degree or other with the sensibilities of most Kossacks. However, this one...

Veteran’s Day was yesterday. It is a holiday that started out as Armistice Day, and celebrated the “war to end all wars.” We now know that World War I did not end all wars: it was just a ...

Intolerance and tribalism has been increasing on Dailykos for several years but I never thought we would descend to eliminationist rhetoric. Resisting Trump and his white nationalist Republican base has stressed all of us, but I never thought we would...

     Was what happened in Virginia on Tuesday night a portent of things to come in 2018, or just a freak outlier? That’s the hot question on everybody’s mind these days. Republicans are earnestly explaining away that Virginia doesn’t mean anything, it...

Last week I wrote a diary, after the release of Donna Brazille’s snippets, saying that it wasn’t the time to really discuss her book. Elections were pending, and I said: let’s put a pin in it. Let’s wait until after the election. You can read that...

In the lead up to Virginia’s elections, I read with great interest and admiration the multiple diaries by SquireForYou, aka Kellen Squire, candidate for Virginia House of Delegates District 58. His belief in the importance of delivering a Democratic...

Today, you’re going to read a lot of diaries — and you already probably have, revolving around Donna Brazille’s release of book excerpts on Politico. There are a lot of troubling discoveries in her book. However, I am far more concerned with the fact...

Lt. Gen. Jay B. Silveria is the Superintendent of U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and the speech he gave, seen below, in response to a racist incident on the campus of the U.S. Air Force Prep Academy is the absolute definition of leadership....

 Though this took place June 22, 1996, it is especially poignant now.  Antifa or no Antifa?  Who are we?  What are we?  What is written in our playbook?  On that day outside of the city hall in Ann Arbor, Michigan was a KKK rally. And...