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Our history of racism has not been magically erased
In his June 30 opinion piece, “Connecting the dots: Critical race theory and Gramsci Marxism,” Don Pesci appears to ignore the effect of 400 years of slavery and institutionalized racism that has included Jim Crow, redlining, G.I. bill exclusion, healthcare and education disparities, police abuse, and many other intentional and unintentional ways of harming people of color.
Critical Race Theory simply says we need to look at the effect that the human construct of race has played in our societal ills and institutional structures. We cannot properly address our societal issues without acknowledging the pervasive effects of racism.
The Looney Manifesto
Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven
Martin Looney, for half a dozen years the President Pro Tem of the General Assembly’s state Senate, is fast becoming the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) of Connecticut.
The President Pro Tem of the Senate is the head of the Senate’s Democrat Caucus and a doorkeeper who allows and does not allow the business of the Senate to reach the floor, where bills are debated and decided by the full Senate, both Democrats and Republicans.
Don Pesci
A few years ago, the Senate was split, about 50-50, between Democrats and Republicans and, for a brief shining moment, there was in that august small “d” democratic body a measure of bi-partisanship, very unusual for a political organ of government that had been controlled by Democrats for almost 30 years.