Category: Politics

The Day Hemp Became Crack-Cocaine

A former concern about marijuana in the US was that it made Mexican beet workers think they were matadors. “All Mexicans are crazy” it was said, and this was the stuff that made them that way. But it was not just our southern neighbors we had to worry about. “Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers” were also offenders.

And do not get these guys started on what happens when white women smoke it!

Because Continue reading

Calvin Coolidge’s Inauguration Day & Its Fallout

March 4, 1925: Inauguration Day

The day began with a parade and ended a fiasco. The new Senate Majority Leader Continue reading

American Indians Get the Vote!

South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem, was banned from most tribal lands in her state after she made inflammatory statements about the tribes living there. A week later, she doubled down and the rest of the tribes joined in.

How can a state executive be banned from land in her own state? In this case, it’s because Continue reading

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