“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” …

Many people who like to think of themselves as “winners” are actually “enablers.” — Read Part I. “While the post-Great Recession expansion was long, both the economy’s average annual growth rate and the typical worker’s earnings gains were relatively modest by the standards of earlier long expansions.” — cppb.org “Loser.” — Donald Trump *** I have this love/hate relationship with the time period we…

“U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70%, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic.” — Inequality.org — Riffing off of: • The Petting Zoo Bourgeoisie • Fuck customers. The investor is always right. Years ago, somebody showed me the billionaire-friendly side to her personality. Life at that time had turned evil, mainly due to where I worked. A publicly-traded holding company owned my company. As in, owned…

At the time of their deaths, these freedom fighters were working towards multi-racial unity. — Also posted on my site. I am writing this on Martin Luther King Day. I am also writing this one day after Virginia’s new Governor dialed up white fear a few notches by signing an executive order that generates more unfounded hub-bub about the Right’s latest-and-greatest dogwhistle: Critical Race Theory.

A salute to the non-readers who help me get a feel for Germany in the early 1930s. — Re-posting from my site. You know what? I need to open this post with some love. At the beginning of the 2010s, I committed to writing and doing so causes a person to freak out a lot. Fortunately, many folks I’ve run into along the way have been positive and…

While I do not have kids, I am a white male. People like us are good at dispensing advice when we shouldn’t. — Riffing off of: • The New Einsatzgruppen wants to talk fatherhood. • The Petting Zoo Bourgeoisie went to the polls. We white dudes love nothing more than chiming in when it isn’t our place. Talking out of turn. Judging before learning the facts. Yeah, boys! Behaving this way makes us…

The Right does not want civil war. Their game plan is to rub everyone’s noses in their unearned wealth while Planet Earth burns up. — Part I. Also posted on my website. *** <cue dramatic music> The big-ass explosion goes off. The cataclysmic event lets humanity know: yup, the moment is here. Yes, indeed. Planet Earth is fucked. Beyond fucked. No going back. Fifteen or twenty seconds later, every woman-hating white bigot in the United…

Thoughts on why this civil war hasn’t happened yet. — Also posted on my website. Here’s how the South declared war on the North back in 1860: Either it was Beauregard, or Tradd, or Saxby, or Saxton, or Colton, or Braxton — whoever it was, one of those tobacco-chawin’ plantation owners got an idea in his head. …

365 days after the Capitol riots on January 6th, 2021, the rubes sit in jail cells while the organizers look for the next business opportunity. — Also posted on my site. Operation White Privilege, 1/6/21. Part II. Part III. Part IV. NEWSFLASH: white supremacy plays a central role in the story of the United States of America. Yup. Baseball. Apple pie. Systemic white supremacy. It’s systemic. It’s insidious. It has been a part of the country’s…