By Rosetta Miller-Perry This state has always denigrated Tennessee State University fairly and this past week the degree of harm that it’s still doing was made public. A bipartisan group of legislators meeting on the issue discovered that Tennessee currently owes TSU around half a billion dollars. Just think about that for a second, then ask yourself what the public reaction would be if this state owed the University of Tennessee even 1 million, let alone half a billion dollars. This is outright racism against Tennessee State University and a Federal charge should be filed with the Justice Department immediately.…
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By Rosetta Miller-Perry There was once a time when the union movement was a noble and honorable one. A. Phillip Randolph’s Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters did many great things while helping Black railroad workers get better wages and equitable treatment. There was also union support of the Civil Rights Movement, and the basic tenet of union creation, getting fair treatment and salaries for labor, remains a just one. Unfortunately, corruption has seeped into too many of the nation’s biggest unions, most notably the United Auto Workers (UAW). In a contest between them and the Teamsters, one would be hard…
By Rosetta Miller Perry The Lilly White Williamson County Board of Education has recently made national news, and not in a positive or flattering way. Multiple broadcasts showed the ugly scene of parents openly threatening health officials for the crime of trying to protect their very own children. It was a sorry display of bullying and disgraceful behavior, with parents even yelling at officials that “we know who you are,” a statement more usually uttered by gangsters when targeting potential victims. But while the Board can’t be held totally responsible for the awful actions of some parents, it is accountable for representing…
By Rosetta Miller-Perry The Republican Party, both statewide and nationally, no longer utilizes facts or even attempts to address realities when they offer policy approaches and/or solutions. Instead, they cling to outdated, reactionary and uninformed theories, unproven allegations, or just outright lies while trying to scare people into believing they have a coherent party rather than folks acting like a cult and blindly following an incompetent demagogue who fortunately was voted out of office, yet still thinks he’s the President. Our state’s Republican legislators, most notably one of our Senators Marsha Blackburn, blindly follows the Trump line, no matter how…
By Rosetta Miller Perry An early battle that will determine just how serious the Democratic Party is about improving a lot of working-class Americans is brewing over the minimum wage. The Biden/Harris administration wants to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of the President’s overall $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief proposal. It’s being supported by progressive leadership in both the House and Senate. As would be expected, there’s opposition from the Republican Party, still in the throes of demagogue Donald Trump, and determined to do mostly nothing under a strategy of sabotaging Biden’s plans to jump-start the economy. But what wasn’t…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Elected officials are supposed to be public servants, people who sought their office to help others, rather than simply obtain personal power. For four years America has had in the White House someone who couldn’t care less about most people in this country, especially those who are poor, aren’t in the upper 1% of the population, or aren’t white and male. His focus on personal power and indulgence led him to feel he was entitled to stay in office no matter whether the voters wanted him or not. He refused to accept the fact 81 million people…
By Rosetta Miller Perry Tribune publisher There are still a few members of the Republican Party who put ethics and personal morality ahead of popularity and seeking power. Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney has done just that by publicly coming out in support of Donald Trump’s impeachment. She has become a pariah in GOP circles, attacked by her former comrades, and under fire in her home state by gutless Republicans afraid to speak the truth and acknowledge Trump’s shameful conduct. She said last week that “On January 6, 2021, a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol to obstruct the process…
By Rosetta Miller Perry Donald Trump’s time as President should end immediately, not on January 20. His rhetoric and role during the disgraceful and treasonous insurrection that occurred January 6 in Washington D,.C. was the most recent and obvious indication he has no respect for the office of the Presidency, the rule of law, or the will of the people. He has repeatedly insisted since losing the election to Joe Biden by seven million votes that he was wrongly cheated of a landslide victory. Despite multiple attempts in courts that have been dismissed and no tangible evidence to support his…
By Rosetta Miller Perry It seems that Tennessee Republicans delight in constantly showing the rest of the nation how backward they can be in public policy issues. Both senators who are anti-African Americans to their core sided with other white Republicans in demonstrating their allegiance to the cult of Donald Trump, endorsing his absurd and possibly treasonous efforts to overturn a fair election and retain power. Lee, the governor (a Trump clone) is squarely in Trump’s back pocket, more interested in devising laws to punish people for exercising their constitutional rights to protest than in doing anything to help move this backward state forward. So given that…
By Rosetta Miller-Perry Information has surfaced that Nashville bomber Anthony Quinn Warner’s girl friend tried to warn police in 2019 that he was making bombs. A police report has surfaced that the police went to Warner’s home once, but he either wasn’t there or didn’t answer the door. The police didn’t press the search. The reasons for that according to Chief John Drake were they had no probable cause to search, and he had no criminal record. I give due respect to the Chief John Drake but once again, that explanation strains credibility. If Warner had been Black and resided in my neighborhood, Haynes Manor,…