Tony Evers Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/tony-evers Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:55:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Tony Evers Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/tony-evers 32 32 NC Legislature Earns ‘Commendation’ for Self-Hating Political Mendacity https://www.halphillips.net/nc-legislature-earns-commendation-for-self-hating-political-mendacity?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nc-legislature-earns-commendation-for-self-hating-political-mendacity https://www.halphillips.net/nc-legislature-earns-commendation-for-self-hating-political-mendacity#respond Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:38:25 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=3438 The term Jim Crow is rightly loaded down with racial connotations, but it’s important to recognize that, at its core, Jim Crow was a political system. Yes, a central byproduct was a social system that consigned black folk to second/third class citizenship. But this social construct was enabled and perpetuated by overarching political power. At […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/nc-legislature-earns-commendation-for-self-hating-political-mendacity/feed 0 I’m Not OK—You’re Not OK: Walker Earns Inaugural Harris Award for Political Nihilism https://www.halphillips.net/im-not-ok-youre-not-ok-walker-earns-inaugural-harris-award-for-political-nihilism?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=im-not-ok-youre-not-ok-walker-earns-inaugural-harris-award-for-political-nihilism https://www.halphillips.net/im-not-ok-youre-not-ok-walker-earns-inaugural-harris-award-for-political-nihilism#respond Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:55:24 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=3330 With this communication, we introduce and inaugurate the random presentation of the Harris Nightmare Awards (HNAs). Named for Dr. Thomas Harris, author of the 1969 pop-psychology treatise I’m OK—You’re OK, The HNAs will henceforth call out the cynical, pre-emptively tit-for-tat nihilism that has informed Republican politics since Newt Gingrich executed his hostile take-over of the […]

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