I struggle with who is the worst president, James Buchanan or Donald Trump. There's reason to choose Reagan as well, so how about a poll? The worst American president in history is:
I think folks are familiar with Reagan and Trump, but not Buchanan, so here is his indictment. He knew secession was coming and set the Union up for defeat.
There's more to show Buchanan served as an agent of the Confederacy while he was president. So, he was a traitor.
Andrew Johnson belongs on that list, too. After all, he's the POS who ended Reconstruction and doomed America to continued white nationalist thuggery.
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In an effort to refute the "lift all boats" malarkey from the Wilsonian progressive left, I have been thinking about how we go about creating anti-racist agendas in policy-making for health, education, and today, I think voting rights. So, this is going to be stealing from HRC.
Hillary, the only good choice in 2016, had an anti-racist voting right agenda that she introduced as a Senator every new session. And if you are interested in the previous threads, you can find them here.
Well, the first is an easy one. Restore the efficacy and power of the Voting Rights Act by restoring preclearance. To prevent the Supreme Court from overturning preclearance again, a new formula for how to get on and off preclearance needs to be created. They were able to make a
I keep seeing this ad and every time it triggers the sensory memory of that time I was putting one soured bowl inside another on the top shell, when it slipped, breaking the larger bowl which fell, slicing me arm open from my ring finger to my elbow
Soured=Pyrex. Blood spurred in waves practically. I put a tourniquet on while my worthless mind risks sister screamed and cried. I drove to the hospital, my arm hanging out the window leaving a trail of blood from East Helena to Helena. I pulled into the emergency lane
But didn't have the strength to get out of the car. The ER doctors came out, checking my slobbering sister first because she's the one screaming. Anyway, it wss scary as he'll and it left a scarf that has prompted many people to ask me about my suicide.
There are so many acts of racism that bring me shame as a white American. Police misconduct, abuse, and murder is a big one. Malicious summoners of the police are another. But the hidden, unseen systemic racism of things like water faucet sensors & the Shirley card for photo film
make me feel more despair. There is at least a wave of outrage for the blatant racism. But hidden structural racism is usually shrugged away and excused as unintentional. As though making white the default calibration for film, appliance sensors, & oximeters is an innocent act
I read that article about pulse oximeters this morning and have been angry and grieving all day, thinking of the lives lost. Sure, healthcare providers may have been unaware of the studies in 2005 and 2007, but the companies that make oximeters cannot possibly been ignorant.
The funniest thing. My best friend has been going to the Food Bank for me since I am immuno-compromised and she dropped off this week's veggies (rutabaga and turnip.) It's cold, she was wearing this cap that has pointy ears and big eyes, kind of Pokemon or kind of like an owl.
So, my cat loves her. Maybe even more than me as when she comes over, she sits on her lap instead of mine.
She leans over toward my cat to say hi, and my cat jumped two feet in the air and swung off the side of the couch using her claws to lever her in a turn like action hero
She lands on the window ledge and my friend holds our her hand, to which my cat would normally rub her face all over, but no, she backs up and backs up as far as she can go. So my friend thinks it might be her hat & takes it off to hold it out to my cat to reassure her
Fifteen years since studies showed that pulse oximeters gave inaccurate readings on Black skin at triple the rate of white skin. Fifteen fucking years!
When it was discovered, the recognition that 1 in 8 readings of Black people's blood oxygen were faulty, they could have fixed it or at least put a notice that readings on Black skin could be wrong. PEople were turned away from hospitals because their blood ox looked fine.
See, this is how we know health disparities in outcome are not inadvertent. No one cared enough after they learned in 2005 to make a change in how to understand oximeter readings or made any change that might let oximeters be calibrated to skin tone.