Foxx routine on SNL points to failure in U.S. schools, overlooks possibility his ancestors held slaves

According to The American Art Journal, a statue of a tomahawk-wielding American Indian was removed from the steps of the U.S. Capitol in 1958 at the urging of Republican congressman Usher Burdick (N.D.) [Photo: U.S. Library of Congress]Jamie Foxx hosted Saturday Night Live and parts of his monologue are searing the blogosphere. Foxx took a racial tack with his commentary, telling the audience, “Black is the new white.” An analysis of Foxx’s remarks suggests a catastrophic failure in the teaching of history in U.S. schools.

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Tenth Amendment Center corrects Maddow’s revisionist nullification history

The new socialist buzzword is ‘extremist’, a term statists use to label anyone who disagrees with the concept of Nanny rule as opposed to wise governance. The Tenth Amendment Center, an organization growing in influence among those who respect and understand the US Constitution, responds to Maddow’s revisionist history on nullification with a formal statement.
 
On Tuesday, MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow used the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War as an occasion to paint advocates of state sovereignty and the principle of nullification as racist “neo-confederates.”

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