25 March 2016
Nixon Invented the War on Drugs as a War on Black People: Larry Wilmore, Mike Yard, & Joe Morton Explain
And following the last post with more to make you angry from the past! Although not even past.
Sometimes when you hear previously unrevealed information about famous people after they die, it humanizes them. It makes them seem better somehow in our eyes. In Nixon's case everything you find out about him only gets more damning each time. There was no bottom to the conscious evil of this man. I recommend Rick Perlstein's NIXONLAND and THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE as the most up-to-date and complete history; I read them last year and found things I never came across in my dead father's library of 70s books on the subject.
Yes, when my dad died I found he obsessively collected Nixon books. Mostly in hardback. And there were a lot of them in the 70s.
Anyway: As you may have heard, it was revealed this week that, as has long been suspected, Nixon deliberately and consciously concocted the War on Drugs--and it was continued by subsequent administrations, most especially Republican ones Reagan forward--to wreck the black and left communities. But let Larry Wilmore, Mike Yard and Joe Morton explain better. And also remind you why this is especially relevant (TRUMP) now as well.
My first president was an actual supervillain, with a secondary one, Henry Kissinger, as his lickspittle. Nixon is a longtime favorite supervillain of mine, but a cartoonist can't help waxing nostalgic on one of the greatest subjects for vicious caricature ever. Right up there with Hitler.
But those supervillains ran our country.
And we might have a new one.
If everyone's done being angry at Mommy and gotten that out of their system--if the vilify-Hillary movement supposedly by Sanders supporters wasn't actually just trolling by Trump people, and I think it was--can we remember who the real enemy is?
___________________
And following the last post with more to make you angry from the past! Although not even past.
Sometimes when you hear previously unrevealed information about famous people after they die, it humanizes them. It makes them seem better somehow in our eyes. In Nixon's case everything you find out about him only gets more damning each time. There was no bottom to the conscious evil of this man. I recommend Rick Perlstein's NIXONLAND and THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE as the most up-to-date and complete history; I read them last year and found things I never came across in my dead father's library of 70s books on the subject.
Yes, when my dad died I found he obsessively collected Nixon books. Mostly in hardback. And there were a lot of them in the 70s.
Anyway: As you may have heard, it was revealed this week that, as has long been suspected, Nixon deliberately and consciously concocted the War on Drugs--and it was continued by subsequent administrations, most especially Republican ones Reagan forward--to wreck the black and left communities. But let Larry Wilmore, Mike Yard and Joe Morton explain better. And also remind you why this is especially relevant (TRUMP) now as well.
My first president was an actual supervillain, with a secondary one, Henry Kissinger, as his lickspittle. Nixon is a longtime favorite supervillain of mine, but a cartoonist can't help waxing nostalgic on one of the greatest subjects for vicious caricature ever. Right up there with Hitler.
But those supervillains ran our country.
And we might have a new one.
If everyone's done being angry at Mommy and gotten that out of their system--if the vilify-Hillary movement supposedly by Sanders supporters wasn't actually just trolling by Trump people, and I think it was--can we remember who the real enemy is?
___________________
Labels: 1970s, bastards, history, nixon, right wing, trump
¶ March 25, 2016
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