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Young people growing up in the backward, conservative culture of the 1980s in rural Wisconsin responded in different ways. Some bought it hook, line, and sinker and indulged in hunting and fishing, mullets, beer drinking, and complaining about the Packers. Others went to college seeking a better life and a bigger world to be a part of. Most of those who fled never went back. “I always wished I could have lived in the 1960s with the hippies,” stated Texas teacher Jimmy Hoskins who grew up in the small town of Sparta, Wisconsin. “But I was born at the end of the sixties. So I was stuck living in Reagans’s America,” Hoskins complained, referring to the Republican President who dominated the politics of the 1980s. “And the pop culture seemed so saturated by bubblegum corporate crap.” Hoskins was recently attending a teacher union conference in Chicago and found himself among colleagues from across the nation and the whole world. Teachers from Argentina asked him which decade in America he ...

Responses by religious leaders to the coronavirus shutdowns are not all the same. Some Christian pastors have defied government orders to cease congregating, while others are waiting it out to protect the elderly and vulnerable in their flock. Those resisting government authorities have been threatened with fines and been ordered to disband by police. Unsure where to turn for relief, some preachers are aligning with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.  “Conservative Republicans weren’t ensuring our 1st Amendment rights to assemble in our church and worship God,” commented Josh Daniels, a Texas preacher from Bryan, Texas. “We needed a real alibi … I mean ally.” Even though many politicians had previously chastised anyone for violating the stay at home orders for any reason at all, fighting racism in the proscribed fashion of protests that lead to violence has not received the same vitriol by liberals. Churches saw an opportunity. “We said we were a BLM protest and accused the cop...

Was it going to be the disproportionate number of black and brown people dying from Covid-19? Or the huge number of deaths in nursing homes that affected Blacks and Hispanics? Or that people of color faced the toughest working conditions without proper PPEs? Or that poor black children were affected most by the shutdown of schools with online learning not reaching them? No, it took the hatred of police and white guilt to bring out the left wing protests. Amid peaceful protests, anarchists engaged in provocations against the police and widespread destruction of property. These activists previously mocked and reviled the right-wing protesters for threatening their lives with public displays of anger at the lock downs imposed by Democrats. “I wore a mask and social distanced so I’m good. And the people who didn’t are oppressed so they can’t be expected to follow the rules of privileged white folks,” an Anglo protester argued. “Destroying the Target was a way to keep the workers safe. Now ...