Wanderthread Redux (Part 1)

Wanderfound · July 27, 2019, 11:29pm

Wanderfound · July 27, 2019, 11:32pm

Thread.

Wanderfound · July 27, 2019, 11:33pm

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Wanderfound · July 28, 2019, 12:32am

tekna · July 28, 2019, 12:47am

Next week in the WSJ:

HONG KONG’S POLITICAL MELTDOWN
The island needs leaders who will work with the Chinese Communist Party

Wanderfound · July 28, 2019, 7:51am

Wanderfound · July 28, 2019, 7:52am

NYPD. It isn’t just the red states.

Wanderfound · July 28, 2019, 7:54am

Wanderfound · July 28, 2019, 1:14pm

As I’ve said before: fascism is a middle-class pathology, driven by the fear of fading privilege.

Wanderfound · July 28, 2019, 10:38pm

The “Resistance”…

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Wanderfound · July 28, 2019, 10:57pm

In 1954, Andrew and Charlotte Wade, an African-American couple who knew the Bradens through association, approached them with a proposal that would drastically alter all lives involved.[2] Like many other Americans after World War II, the Wades wanted to buy a house in a suburban neighborhood. Because of Jim Crow housing practices, the Wades had been unsuccessful for months in their quest to purchase a home on their own. The Bradens, who never wavered in their support for African American civil rights, agreed to purchase the home for the Wades.[5]

On May 15, 1954, Wade and his wife spent their first night in their new home in the Louisville suburb of Shively, Kentucky. Upon discovering that black people had moved in, white neighbors burned a cross in front of the house, shot out windows, and condemned the Bradens for buying it on the Wades’ behalf. The Wades moved in two days before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark condemnation of public schools’ racial segregation policy in Brown v. Board of Education , Topeka, KS. Six weeks later, amid constant community tensions, the Wades’ new house was dynamited one evening while they were out.[5]

While Vernon Bown (an associate of the Wades and the Bradens) was indicted for the bombing, the actual bombers were never sought nor brought to trial. McCarthyism affected the ordeal. Instead of addressing the segregationists’ violence, the investigators alleged that the Bradens and others helping the Wades were affiliated with the Communist Party, and made that the main subject of concern. White supremacists who were pro-segregation at the time charged that these alleged Communists had engineered the bombing to provide a cause célèbre and fund-raising opportunity, but this was never proven.[6]

Nonetheless, on October 1954, Anne and Carl Braden and five other whites were charged with sedition.[6] After a sensationalized trial, Carl Braden—the perceived ringleader—was convicted of sedition and sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment. As Anne and the other defendants awaited a similar fate, Carl served eight months, but got out on $40,000 bond after a U.S. Supreme Court decision ( Pennsylvania v. Nelson in 1956) invalidated state sedition laws (Steven Nelson had been arrested under the Pennsylvania Sedition Law but the federal Smith Act superseded it). All charges were dropped against Braden, but the Wades moved back to Louisville.

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Wanderfound · July 30, 2019, 2:20am

I would greatly enjoy the appointment of Cardi B as White House Press Secretary for a Sanders/Turner Presidency.

Wanderfound · July 30, 2019, 9:20pm

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