NYTimes: The Forgotten Radicalism of the March on Washington The Forgotten Radicalism of the March on Washington https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/opinion/march-washington-king-randolph-rustin.html?unlocked_article_code=fCIRLL3Ke6DdOolHOo3Eb-F8aZcPTPVgiXhf7njI5j_ammCbpbatD-Khyr6Vv9UnsUPMKfJ6voiRms4zIBzKpLxB9bkrBVUMii8yb-T12UCYJi_qbxQpW2IDy1ae7aqZJqqKNEWAbB2dqQOZrEBQh548qScevy1aUn0P4-8O5oGCTzy-P7jRXfISmkKd0L_JjCP5oqNKPBgMfHVgEE_hWMiLrRilheHa0F-L7Flpejr0nPT883AbxBBYT-qiefVMFqyJvKwv7We0dPcHTAe06L0y_fYUEQFt6b-wbJhVUgmPuTx4ErS3wBmIk-NyNlDysZbJM-p9gufceAdHImJzlhmiwdbYj_DXK28vy7hZ6w&smid=nytcore-android-share

"The real march, through the paramount influence of Randolph, Rustin and others, was an expression of the democratic and egalitarian aspirations of the Black freedom struggle as voiced and articulated throughout the previous decades, by activists, intellectuals and laborers alike."

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#CivilRights
#history
#1964MarchOnWashington
#USpolitics

🎁 #NoPaywall

🇺🇸 #FourthOfJuly | "The Declaration as we understand it was forged by struggle. Not the struggle with Britain but the struggle within the independent United States for freedom and equality against the weight of the Constitution and the American political system. As you might imagine, the key that shaped our understanding of the Declaration was the fight to end slavery." — #JamelleBouie

#IndependenceDay #USA #USHistory #BlackHistory #Slavery #Opinion https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/opinion/declaration-independence-antislavery-movement.html?unlocked_article_code=xMcJsEXK-WL9hyuWtdzd6wENI60RocuZdNzR84Ktq2hpQbHlwNN7OtV1lFmkvqjg3Or-ePJzMz363nyKnCS0oVRMISheQ68KWx1nySSNScfpKrx8_QAhKzCGXoRrAFgLVhEO19eXqilSXEQ9Rn5tUVAid0cE59hFxSPDXTm9U7Ql_QtMF9x6xFo5TDQdO453UivTBE3xObFWosqWjuJnkz7vJQvSS7o0am3VYcQlaZRDXWZj9CP0DJX-OzvLwoJD4d4iU-PAkFCwTl-GGI1ngGoZ1FZyiq8N72twkhtuo3L075ECkvPYXz9mEalL0-hprbyfQWFvXYFsLd4apJKGCj-5HWVXJJoWuqsTG4PatVfQrua2PZ_T&smid=url-share

"with its war on workers, the Roberts court is only acting in the Supreme Court’s historical capacity as an agent of capital.”

#SCOTUS #JamelleBouie #Glacier #Capitalism

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/roberts-court-glacier-labor-workers.html

The “Four Freedoms” of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941 and the “Four Freedoms” of U. S. Republicans in 2023. #111Words #JamelleBouie #FourFreedoms #Republicans #FranklinDelanoRoosevelt #Politics https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-four-freedoms-of-franklin-delano.html

"we face an organized political movement to undermine this grant of universal rights and elevate the rights of states over those of people, in order to protect and secure traditional patterns of domination and status.”

#JamelleBouie #CivilRights #AmericanHistory

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/opinion/freedom-states-rights.html

Jamelle Bouie identifies four “freedoms” in Republican policies in the United States:

The freedom to control.
The freedom to exploit.
The freedom to censor.
The freedom to menace.

These “freedoms” are the "building blocks […] of a rigid and hierarchical [society], in which you can either dominate or be dominated."

#JamelleBouie #FourFreedoms #Freedom #RepublicanParty #Authoritarianism #HierarchicalSociety #Control #Exploitation #Censorship #Menace

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opinion/republican-legislatures-abortion-trangender-education.html

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: The Gun Lobby's Fearmongering Enabled the Shootings of Kaylin Gillis & Ralph Yarl https://jezebel.com/gun-lobby-shooting-kaylin-gillis-ralph-yarl-1850348938 #Jezebel #gunpoliticsintheunitedstates #kaylingillisralphyarl #zacharythompson #georgezimmerman #americanwriters #kaylinagillis #kevindmonahan #jamellebouie #andrewlester #journalists #law2ccrime #ralphyarl #trayvon #writers #tiktok

#JamelleBouie's NYT article Friday confronted the farce that is the Republican Party’s claim to want to “protect children.”
The Republican Party will use the law and the state to shield as many children as possible from the knowledge, cultural influences and technologies deemed divisive or controversial or subversive by the voters, activists and apparatchiks that shape and guide its priorities. > (continued)

NYT Gift article | DeSantis Thinks His Competence Will Help Him Beat Trump | But Republican voters don’t want a manager, they want a performer. | #JamelleBouie https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/opinion/trump-desantis.html?unlocked_article_code=iNcpJmj1d8cMcvkbE2knwKiDSJgiD2qOjPyedwLaMONH65Aa_kq_UjvP3bzTN9D4jSBTj4NCHVGDrcsIOpXG0MN7OnNVf00xCQj-M483A4EO3tQ0JdVhufBOtjgOsAkNRx3-AoOJkcl-JRu7qu7ODvxnaPYq3uwXWzvJQxZWdnKLi5VubRnQ5w705S5D9F0kmlZoo82og2jndKE9W3hSu40ocrRp6U4RgZdREWiGx1RMMhnHV7TNfe1h7AJQSxpawg_nZr1Ij7QkxJrMmocN8lQ4IAvQea_4HjJ3Z879b5sxoV-g2b13fkfVzdojd2KrXYgT6BxYyZE&smid=url-share

The simple reason DeSantis is struggling so badly against Trump

How has DeSantis tripped up so spectacularly? As usual when it comes to Republican politics, the answer involves Trump. When DeSantis’ poll numbers started rising, Trump wasted no time hurling attacks at his rival. He road-tested numerous nicknames “DeSantis looks like a Bush Republican as much as or more than he does a Trump one,” writes The New York Times’ #JamelleBouie

#Trump #desantis #bush

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/desantis-trump-republican-polls-2024-election-rcna76600

#JamelleBouie nails it: “What advocates of a ‘national divorce’ or some other separation want is a resolution of the struggle of democratic life, a point at which they must no longer contend with alternative and conflicting ways of living. But that is just another fantasy.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-national-divorce.html

"No matter how small you go, in other words, you run into the simple fact that there’s no such thing as a truly homogeneous political community. There will always be differences of belief and interest, and the only way to deal with them in a representative, republican government is through deliberation and majority rule.” #JamelleBouie #NationalDivorce https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-national-divorce.html

"In the hands of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and other conservatives on the Supreme Court, the founding fathers are small-minded and provincial, unable to think beyond the narrowest possible interpretation of the words they wrote.” #JamelleBouie #FoundingFathers #Originalism #SupremeCourt https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/opinion/bouie-newsletter-framers.html

Jamelle Bouie has featured an essay by @Dahlialith and me in his weekly newsletter. I’m excited and proud.
Bouie’s newsletter here: https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/JBO_sample.html
Our essay here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/gun-laws-bruen-clarence-thomas-framers-domestic-abuse.html
#JamelleBouie

🎁 📰 #FreeRead @ #NYTimes | "In red states, they would likely pursue one day elections with paper ballots and require voter ID with only the red state citizens or even red state tax payers voting. And blue states would be free to allow illegal aliens from all over the world to vote freely and frequently in their elections like the D.C. City Council wants. Dead people could still vote. Criminals in jail could vote that is if blue states even have jails or prisons anymore."

#JamelleBouie puts #MarjorieTaylorGreene's proposal for a #nationaldivorce in historical context.

#representation #apportionment #states #fascism #rising #US #history #repeating

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-national-divorce.html?unlocked_article_code=EkpBdqDctLQXGqmQ9E1ZhSUvjIAeL38KyCfaIxRWKjTrFmw6Iq0GJPHhzMwUUlmHfrytwjS0McXh49WsqX9-4RKUawhz8TwdoE26GRj0qt4oGZ1q10URVGoXsTm3X8OD_iu1j1T0SmzGI5C4JiSqwvA8hn0-XFYIrmOnCT5iurWbrunIIqPppMYdm34uOA6YTVXBqoF3oGgIlaP07lOMFd-f4zvRMizCQ3Ax_8kATu6WgdKYy_3I153x4Cor9Q0wQrJqIJDezeW7YVn4hEgrXt5nTTZbB3yQxsG7rmWieRSCca-DLtTpe8tkXXPY-NgYujYMOxIjjgH4CenTSxqeJqT6xy2eT3Fu2XeSIPYVwm3Y&smid=url-share

@jbouie writes about the "sweeping and ferocious" attack on the rights and dignity of transgender people in the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/opinion/trump-desantis-transgender-rights.html

#Dignity #Rights #Freedom #Equality #Liberty #Trans #LGBTQ #BodilyAutonomy #America #USPol #Politics #NYTimes #JamelleBouie

@Impossible_PhD Opinion is the only part of the #NewYorkTimes that occasionally allows #journalism, ironically.

By invoking the concepts of dignity and community, #JamelleBouie pinpoints what #conservatism always fight against.

By separating people, #conservatives create false scarcity and promote "crabs in a bucket" behavior, as #LBJ perfectly summarized.

We must build and buttress true #community founded upon mutual dignity or we are all truly doomed.

#JamelleBouie gets it: “The denial of dignity to one segment of the political community…threatens the dignity of all. This was true for [Frederick] Douglass and his time…and it is true for us and ours as well. To deny equal respect and dignity to any part of the citizenry is to place the entire country on the road to tiered citizenship and limited rights, to liberty for some and hierarchy for the rest.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/opinion/trump-desantis-transgender-rights.html

Really insightful piece on #StarWars #Andor by #JamelleBouie in #NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/opinion/andor-star-wars-disney.html?smid=url-share

That white hood made it difficult for Mr #Trump to know who he was breaking bread with.

Trump, for his part, claims he knew nothing about #Fuentes, who is an antisemite, a #Holocaust denier and a #whitesupremacist. “This past week, #KanyeWest called me to have dinner at #Mar-a-Lago,” Trump said in a statement on Friday. “Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about.”

#JamelleBouie #NYTimes