I like Oren Lesmeister. The Democratic District 28 Senate candidate took time to talk to me about his politics in the middle of a hard-driving campaign. He spoke freely about most issues, and I can roll with most of his…
Posts tagged as “racism”
Rapid City businessman, Piedmont resident, and former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joe Lowe submits this letter to the editor speaking directly to Rep. Betty Olson about her "sense of humor" about Muslims. He's not joking. Representative Betty Olson’s remarks are racist…
Rep. Betty Olson (R-28B/Prairie City) remains impervious to modern decency. After catching heck for spreading racism, religious bigotry, and birtherism in the local paper, Rep. Olson says we're the jerks for not laughing along with her: Olson said she was…
In this guest column for the Madville Times, actual live Native American Tasiyagnunpa Livermont weighs in on Watertown's cultural misappropriation, football, war, and racism: Nobody likes to be told they are wrong. Let alone racist. I get it. You feel…
Last March, the Chamberlain School Board received a letter from the King (as in Martin Luther King. Jr.) Center for Nonviolent Social Change asking the board to recognize the ongoing request of many of its constituents to include a Lakota…
Oh, look—white kids dressed up in mock Indian garb: Not having had the pleasure of graduating from Watertown, Home of the Arrows, I can't speak to the rich local tradition behind the branding of homecoming week as a celebration of…
Here's a low ranking in which South Dakota can find relief: South Dakota is among states with low participation in the white-supremacist hate forum Stromfront. Stephens-Davidowitz found 12 South Dakotans participating in Stormfront's particularly vile community of loathing of "the…