Independent thinking expressed intelligently
[This op-ed appeared last week in Charleston’s Post & Courier.] It’s gut-check time for Republicans. Are they the party Donald Trump says they are, the protector of American jobs, fighting for the forgotten working class? Or now that the election is over and they’ve gotten those working-class votes, will they go back to being the party […]
These are some of the posters that I saw at the Women’s March in Charleston. We began at the Women’s and Gender Studies office at the College of Charleston and walked through the rain to Brittlebank Park. And a bonus photo with the Hack’s own Steve Bailey in Washington, D. C.
So how does the sheet balance on climate change? On the one hand, we’ve got Charleston’s cataclysmic public cost of dealing with the rising Atlantic. And Miami. And Brooklyn. And Boston. And D. C. And the Outer Banks. On the other, we “have to understand” that doing something is “going to cost our companies.”
Colbert King wrote a column recently for the Washington Post about the decline of black Republicans. Quoting a Wall Street Journal-NBC poll, he said that “just 7 percent of blacks called themselves Republicans.” Twenty years ago, when Bob Dole ran for president against Bill Clinton, 15% of African Americans were Republicans. Just 7 percent today? Honestly, I am […]
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