Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America | Religion Dispatches. As historians of South Asian America, we know that having your citizenship stripped because of the color of your skin is not unusual in our history. The United States has a long history of racism being encoded into law, and manifesting in law, on a regular basis. The story of internment of Americans of Japanese descent is perhaps the one that is most recent in our collective memory, partly because of George Takei’s tireless work to keep those stories alive.
Do We Value Prison More Than College? – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast. An infographic compares the price of admission to Princeton University, $37,000, to one year at a New Jersey state prison, $44,000
Apparently when the GOP spokespeople hope for a another terrorist attack on my city, they may do it because they actually like the city and think it would be a good way to appease their “rump” by getting rid of most of what makes America great, and because it’s such a well-liked city it will get people upset. Otherwise why would they rail against NY and hope for another terrorist attack here? Our most excellent pundits are generally very quick to buy into the idea that everybody hates Yurp, that “real Americans” detest San Francisco. I’m not sure how much…