Don Palabraz

Teabagger Convention Time!

The teabaggers are holding their first national convention this weekend in Nashville, Tennessee with Sarah Palin scheduled as keynote speaker. Though the ‘movement’ likes to say it is not motivated by racism in any fashion, its convention got off to an embarrassing start when Congressman Tom Tancredo – mostly known as an anti-immigrant xenophobe - [...]

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Subversive Historian – 02/01/10

{Surprisingly This Was Not a Denny’s Restaurant!} The Greensboro Sit-ins Back in the day on February 1st, 1960, four young black college students challenged a white-only lunch counter policy in Greensboro, North Carolina. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond carried out their devised sit-in when they entered Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime shop. After purchasing items [...]

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Rebirth of a Nation?

The watchdog group Media Matters for America called out the hypocrisy of Fox News yet again today. Highlighted above is a picture from “The Fox Nation” of President Barack Obama with his feet up on a desk with the subtitle reading “Is Pres. Obama Disrespecting the Oval Office?” Media Matters was quick to point out [...]

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Subversive Historian – 01/20/10

Hiram Revels Becomes First African-American Senator Back in the day on January 20th, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African-American to be elected to the United States Senate. Born in North Carolina, the Christian minister and educator was, ironically, chosen to fill the long vacated seat of former Mississippi Senator and one-time President of the [...]

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The True Clipper Curse

For months, mum had been the word in the corporate media and in the NBA,  concerning the fact that one of the owners in the league, Donald T. Sterling, who is also a mega-landlord, was wracked for a record setting housing discrimination settlement by the U.S. Department of Justice. Though the man has been roundly [...]

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