# Not Unmindful
> A champion for change at W&L and beyond. Anti racist. Anti fascist. Anti ignorance
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## Pages
- [About Not Unmindful](https://www.notunmindful.org/about.md) - About Not Unmindful Reimagining our future: a call for change Welcome to the movement for a truly inclusive and equitable future for our society and for Washington and Lee University in particular. Our inception Our mission began rooted in the belief that our institution's name should reflect its h…
- [Books](https://www.notunmindful.org/books.md) - Books None of these are required reading for the cause, but we are providing a list of books for those that are interesting in learning more, whether it's for their own understanding or to help them in hard conversations with friends. They cover the myth of the lost cause as well as dealing with ra…
- [Contact Not Unmindful](https://www.notunmindful.org/contact-not-unmindful.md) - Feel free to get in touch. Your e-mail address*: What is your interest: Send
- [FAQ](https://www.notunmindful.org/faq.md) - FAQ Common Questions about Not Unmindful Why are you doing this? Why do you want to hurt the school? We want to help the school. We are doing this because we love the school. Morally, removing Lee from the name and brand of the university is the right thing to do. It's also the right thing to do fr…
- [Mission](https://www.notunmindful.org/mission.md) - Our Mission Our primary ask of the W&L Board of Trustees Our focus remains unchanged—changing the name of the University, with particular focus on removing Lee, as a necessary step in the process of change. Lee is a barrier to progress for many reasons: 1. He is a symbol of white supremacy. Even wh…
- [Newsletter](https://www.notunmindful.org/newsletter.md)
- [Online resources](https://www.notunmindful.org/online-resources.md) - Online resources This list provides a good background on the source and current state of systemic racism in the USA. The are source from various members suggestions. Variously, these articles and maps will give you the information you need around demystifying Robert E. Lee and help with a deeper un…
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- [Resources](https://www.notunmindful.org/resources.md) - Resources Browse the available resources that have been published on the topics of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause and how it still reverberates today. Online resources Visit these links to read more about Robert E. Lee without the mythology and learn more about systemic racism in our society toda…
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## Posts
- [The lost cause comes back again, and loses, again](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-lost-cause-comes-back-again-and-loses-again.md) - "The past is never dead. It's not even past." — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun "This whole land, the whole South, is cursed, and all of us who derive from it, whom it ever suckled, white and black both, lie under the curse." — William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses On August 6, a federal judge in Ha…
- [McMahon's call to action, and what it means for W&L](https://www.notunmindful.org/mcmahons-call-to-action-and-what-it-means-for-w-l.md) - The Secretary of the Department of Education, Linda McMahon, just asked every college—W&L included, for the first time— o publish reform pledges by year's end. The talking points for those against academic freedom now come with a federal deadline attached.
- [The Board was the weapon](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-board-was-the-weapon.md) - Three Virginia university leaders were forced out by Youngkin-appointed boards doing the Trump administration's DEI dirty work. George Mason's Gregory Washington survived. The difference was a new governor.
- ["Rigged": every accusation is a confession](https://www.notunmindful.org/rigged-every-accusation-is-a-confession.md) - The same lie, the same program, the same state, for a decade. When Donald Trump calls California's elections rigged, he isn't describing fraud. He's describing mail ballots, extended counting windows, and automatic distribution—the machinery of access.
- [Commemorating a racist, as they do](https://www.notunmindful.org/commemorating-a-racist-as-they-do.md) - Today, June 1, Alabama state offices are closed. Schools are closed. Courts are closed. The state is observing Jefferson Davis's birthday—one of three holidays Alabama maintains to honor the Confederacy, alongside Robert E. Lee's Birthday in January and Confederate Memorial Day in April. Davis was…
- [Jim Crow returns: the maps were ready](https://www.notunmindful.org/jim-crow-returns-the-maps-were-ready.md) - The Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act on April 29. By nightfall, Florida had a new congressional map. Mississippi had scheduled its special session before the opinion was written. The racism wasn't created by Callais—it was waiting for permission.
- [A steady hand for the transition](https://www.notunmindful.org/a-steady-hand-for-the-transition.md) - Kenneth P. Ruscio '76 has been named as the interim president to replace the departing William Dudley. A solid, interim choice, but hard work remains.
- [Veneration is not history](https://www.notunmindful.org/veneration-is-not-history.md) - The Lost Cause didn't need a museum. It had something better: an entire campus organized around a single, uncontested interpretation. Immersion without interpretation isn't education. It's indoctrination.
- [Extra! It’s always the racism](https://www.notunmindful.org/extra-its-always-the-racism.md) - The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais this week. It's not a voting rights story. It was always a racism story. From the Court to the Pentagon to ICE to immigration, one movement is telling us exactly who they are.
- [Trump's DOJ Thinks the Klan Had a Point](https://www.notunmindful.org/trumps-doj-thinks-the-klan-had-a-point.md) - Trump's DOJ has indicted the SPLC for infiltrating the Klan. In 1981, the Klan's own publication made the same objection. The FBI spent decades using identical tactics against civil rights groups. Trump's Justice Department has decided the Klan had a point.
- [Honor, integrity, and civility](https://www.notunmindful.org/honor-integrity-and-civility.md) - Washington and Lee's presidential profile is more serious than expected, but its emphasis on civility reveals a load-bearing contradiction.
- [Government of the people, for the people—white people](https://www.notunmindful.org/government-of-the-people-for-the-people-white-people.md) - Since October, the U.S. has admitted 4,499 refugees. 4,496 were white South Africans. Meanwhile, Hegseth has purged Black and female officers from military leadership. This is one story, not two.
- [The warrior ethos has a color](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-warrior-ethos-has-a-color.md) - Pete Hegseth fired the Army's top chaplain for insufficient Christianity. His has crusader tattoos. What he did with the promotion list tells you everything else. This is not a culture war. It has a name.
- [We are who we fear we are](https://www.notunmindful.org/we-are-who-we-fear-we-are.md) - The UN recently voted 123-3 to declare chattel slavery the gravest crime against humanity. The US voted no. This is what they're protecting and why.
- [Dismantling the public displays of the Lost Cause a piece at a time](https://www.notunmindful.org/dismantling-the-public-displays-of-the-lost-cause-a-piece-at-a-time.md) - Virginia's 2026 legislature passed bills stripping Confederate tax exemptions, ending rebel license plates, and removing statues from Capitol Square. The Lost Cause infrastructure was built piece by piece. Now it's coming down the same way.
- [Update on the institution next door](https://www.notunmindful.org/update-on-the-institution-next-door.md) - How five Virginia Republicans asked the federal government to protect VMI from the one thing it has always resisted: accountability.
- [From the Confederacy to the Pentagon](https://www.notunmindful.org/god-of-war.md) - Pete Hegseth has turned the Pentagon into a sanctuary for Christian nationalism—and the theology of his mentor, Lost Cause apologist Doug Wilson, is now shaping how commanders explain an actual war, despite their protestations.
- [Alma mater to which nation](https://www.notunmindful.org/alma-mater-to-which-nation.md) - The Pentagon has declared William & Mary — founded in 1693, alma mater to Jefferson and Monroe — too "woke" to train senior military officers. They didn't even bother to notify the school.
- [That flag is never the point](https://www.notunmindful.org/that-flag-is-never-the-point.md) - The flag is only a visible symptom of the disease that has wracked out society since the end of reconstruction—a disease that is becoming as virulent than ever with power behind it.
- [The assault on voting rights reaching its endgame](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-assault-on-voting-rights-reaching-its-endgame.md) - Chief Justice John Roberts has been working to kill the Voting Rights Act for forty years. Louisiana v. Callais is set to be his sought after legacy. The ruling is coming. Don't act surprised.
- [A flag came down. The lost cause did not.](https://www.notunmindful.org/a-flag-came-down-the-lost-cause-did-not.md) - The Lost Cause has never relied on truth. It has relied on strategy — on monuments, on textbooks, on flags planted where 80,000 cars pass every day. A South Carolina court just ordered one of those flags down. The reason tells you everything about how hard this fight actually is.
- [The museum isn't built yet. The excuses are](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-museum-isnt-built-yet-the-excuses-are.md) - Washington and Lee's motto means "not unmindful of the future." Seven years into a commitment to honest historical interpretation, the university is building a museum while simultaneously writing a policy that its own faculty say contradicts everything the museum is supposed to stand for.
- [News regarding that other Lexington  Institution](https://www.notunmindful.org/news-regarding-that-other-lexington-institution.md) - The Virginia House of Delegates passed legislation this week that asks ask a question the state should have asked decades ago. That is, should taxpayers continue funding an institution that spent generations celebrating treason in defense of slavery?
- [Thoughts on the next president](https://www.notunmindful.org/thoughts-on-the-next-president.md) - As Washington and Lee undertakes this critical search, we must articulate the qualities needed to lead the university through necessary evolution while preserving what makes it genuinely excellent.
- [Ladies and gentlemen, the next racist Republican generation](https://www.notunmindful.org/ladies-and-gentlemen-the-next-racist-republican-generation.md) - Leaked messages expose racist rhetoric in Young Republican leadership chat. Sky is still blue.
- [What the hell  is  a "Heritage American"?](https://www.notunmindful.org/what-the-hell-is-a-heritage-american.md) - The "heritage American" label and the right's ongoing whitewashing ofAmerican history to erase nonwhite contributions.
- [Not Unmindful weekly digest #10/11](https://www.notunmindful.org/not-unmindful-weekly-digest-10-11.md) - It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
- [Mario Guevara deported](https://www.notunmindful.org/mario-guevara-deported.md) - Journalist Mario Guevara, despite being here legally and committing no crimes, has been deported. This one hits me close to home.
- [Trump's higher education "compact" sparks controversy over academic freedom](https://www.notunmindful.org/trumps-higher-education-compact-sparks-controversy-over-academic-freedom.md) - Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender and conservative priorities to get special treatment.
- [How America's racism became a national security threat](https://www.notunmindful.org/how-americas-racism-became-a-national-security-threat.md) - Foreign bots spewed much of the racist rhetoric that followed Charlie Kirk’s killing. But it gained traction only because plenty of homegrown racism exists to exploit.
- [The fight for fair representation: understanding what’s at stake in Louisiana v. Callais](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-fight-for-fair-representation-understanding-whats-at-stake-in-louisiana-v-callais.md) - Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake
- [Not Unmindful weekly digest #9](https://www.notunmindful.org/not-unmindful-weekly-digest-98-copy.md) - It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
- [Toward a new Reconstruction to rebuild the American polity](https://www.notunmindful.org/toward-a-new-reconstruction-to-rebuild-the-american-polity.md) - Where do we go from here? There is so much to repair and build to return us to where we thought we were. This is an outline for democratic renewal.
- [More consequences and reactions  to whitewashing the Smithsonian](https://www.notunmindful.org/more-consequences-and-reactions-to-whitewashing-the-smithsonian.md) - The consequences of the Trump administration's sweeping efforts to whitewash American history at the Smithsonian and reactions to it.
- [Behind closed doors: academic freedom under attack  at UNC-Chapel Hill](https://www.notunmindful.org/behind-closed-doors-academic-freedom-under-attack-at-unc-chapel-hill.md) - Former provost dues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees over closed meetings about eliminating tenure.
- [Frederick Douglass still resonates](https://www.notunmindful.org/frederick-douglass-still-resonates.md) - Frederick Douglass still has something to say for the current moment. Although these words were written after Lee's death, the bombast is all to present again today.
- [The Charlie Kirk assassination: political violence and the dangerous path forward](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-charlie-kirk-assassination-political-violence-and-the-dangerous-path-forward.md) - By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of Kirk, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy as the American right calls for retribution and a crackdown on the political left.
- [Not Unmindful weekly digest #8](https://www.notunmindful.org/not-unmindful-weekly-digest-8.md) - It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
- [UC Berkeley turns over 160 names to federal government](https://www.notunmindful.org/uc-berkeley-turns-over-160-names-to-federal-government.md) - The University of California, Berkeley, is among the 10 universities that a Trump administration task force on antisemitism has identified for particular attention.
- [Trump's education funding shuffle: a strategic shift toward separation](https://www.notunmindful.org/trumps-education-funding-shuffle-a-strategic-shift-toward-separation.md) - The Trump administration is cutting money from programs that have supported minority students, including at other universities, to CCBUs, while ending financial support minority programs.
- [Harvard ends undergraduate minority recruitment program as Trump targets race in admissions](https://www.notunmindful.org/harvard-ends-undergraduate-minority-recruitment-program-as-trump-targets-race-in-admissions.md) - By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
- [Trump administration orders removal of slavery exhibits from national parks](https://www.notunmindful.org/trump-administration-orders-removal-of-slavery-exhibits-from-national-parks.md) - The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology,” including photo of enslaved man’s scars.
- [Trump's $1.2 billion UCLA settlement is a blueprint for conservative campus transformation](https://www.notunmindful.org/trumps-1-2-billion-ucla-settlement-is-a-blueprint-for-conservative-campus-transformation.md) - The details of Trump’s $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image and its ramifications.
- [Not Unmindful weekly digest #7](https://www.notunmindful.org/not-unmindful-weekly-digest-7.md) - It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
- [Supreme Court oks racial profiling in Los Angeles](https://www.notunmindful.org/supreme-court-greenlights-racial-profiling-in-los-angeles-as-reported-by-the-ap-the-supreme-court-delivered-a-devastating-blow-to-civil-rights-last-week-voting-6-3-along-party-lines-to-.md) - The Supreme Court lifts restrictions on LA immigration stops set after agents swept up US citizens. The court’s ruling allows ICE to resume its indiscriminate roundups of LA’s Latino residents.
- [Charlie Kirk, myth making, and violence](https://www.notunmindful.org/charlie-kirk-myth-making-and-violence.md) - Political violence, memory, and the danger of historical revisionism.
- [Rejecting Lincoln's America](https://www.notunmindful.org/rejecting-lincolns-america.md) - We live in Lincoln’s America as much as anyone else’s. Which makes it supremely ironic that Lincoln’s partisan political descendants, the modern Republican Party, wants to destroy it.
- [ICE opens detention center at Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison: and a dark history returns](https://www.notunmindful.org/ice-opens-detention-center-at-louisianas-notorious-angola-prison-and-a-dark-history-returns.md) - Critics are questioning the decision to hold immigrants at the maximum-security facility known as Angola, which has a troubled and racist history.
- [The General's Redoubt weighs in again](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-generals-redoubt-weighs-in-again.md) - In an article his blog, The Patron Saint of Superheroes, Professor Chris Gavalar breaks down the latest missive from that lot.
- [Senator declares America a "white homeland" in shocking national conference speech](https://www.notunmindful.org/senator-declares-america-a-white-homeland-in-shocking-national-conference-speech.md) - A Senator just unapologetically declared that America isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone. Just certain types, Guess.
- [Trump's dangerous plan to illegally deploy Texas troops in Illinois](https://www.notunmindful.org/trumps-dangerous-plan-to-illegally-deploy-texas-troops-in-illinois.md) - Trump’s plan could tear apart the Union if it goes forward. Either way, it will plunge the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisis. Special off-cycle edition.
- [Not Unmindful weekly digest #6](https://www.notunmindful.org/not-unmindful-weekly-digest-6.md) - It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
- [Ohio State bans land acknowledgments in latest bout anti-DEI dipshittery](https://www.notunmindful.org/ohio-state-bans-land-acknowledgments-in-latest-bout-anti-dei-dipshittery.md) - The new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to drop any mention of diversity, equity, and inclusion at public universities.
- [Another university president falls: Northwestern's Schill resigns under Trump administration pressure](https://www.notunmindful.org/another-university-president-falls-northwesterns-schill-resigns-under-trump-administration-pressure.md) - The university’s president, Michael Schill, said he would step down following months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million from the university’s research funds.
- [When bad AI meets history](https://www.notunmindful.org/when-bad-ai-meets-history.md) - The troubling rise of sanitized American narratives Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history, AI-generated fiction. Plus a joke written by AI that could have been the whole post.
- [Emory University caves, dismantles DEI programs amid federal pressure](https://www.notunmindful.org/emory-university-caves-dismantles-dei-programs-amid-federal-pressure.md) - Emory University announced today the discontinuation od its DEI programs, offices. Georgia’s largest private university had previously embraced diversity efforts.
- [When MAGA intellectuals say the quiet parts out loud](https://www.notunmindful.org/when-maga-intellectuals-say-the-quiet-parts-out-loud.md) - The right debates just how weird their authoritarianism should be. A roundtable discussion among leading MAGA intellectuals suggests they might be suffering from success.
- [The future of voting rights is on the line at the Supreme Court](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-future-of-voting-rights-is-on-the-line-at-the-supreme-court.md) - A supreme court voting rights case could reshape American politics. And we haven't even noticed. And that's not the weird part.
- [The administration wants military women to know their place](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-administration-wants-military-women-to-know-their-place.md) - The systematic removal of women from military leadership: a return to 1955? Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
- [Not Unmindful weekly digest #5](https://www.notunmindful.org/not-unmindful-weekly-digest-5.md) - It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
- [Trump administration returns traitor's portrait to West Point](https://www.notunmindful.org/trump-administration-returns-traitors-portrait-to-west-point.md) - The Pentagon is returning a portrait of General Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery.
- [Trump's federal takeover of DC echoes decades of racially charged rhetoric](https://www.notunmindful.org/trumps-federal-takeover-of-dc-echoes-decades-of-racially-charged-rhetoric.md) - Trump’s rhetoric on DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime.
- [When journalism also becomes a target: inside the neo-Nazi war freedom of the press](https://www.notunmindful.org/when-journalism-also-becomes-a-target-inside-the-neo-nazi-war-freedom-of-the-press.md) - After he committed to unmasking extremist groups in North Carolina and beyond, reporter Jordan Green got a first-hand look at how a movement known as ‘militant accelerationism’ operates. We should all be worried,
- [Racism endures](https://www.notunmindful.org/racism-endures.md) - Despite what we've been told, discrimination dangerously across social groups. And this PEW report summarizes what Americans think of it.
- [The Raids on Bolton's house is another dead canary in the coal mine](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-raids-on-boltons-house-is-another-dead-canary-in-the-coal-mine.md) - FBI Raids John Bolton continuing the pattern of authoritarian retaliation, showing a coordinated federal action.
- [Just a reminder](https://www.notunmindful.org/just-a-reminder.md) - Friend of Not Unmindful, Ty Seidule nails it again. And this isn't recent but a good reminder.
- [Not Unmindful weekly digest #4](https://www.notunmindful.org/not-unmindful-weekly-digest-4.md) - It's been busier than usual on the site this week.
- [We can't count on the Supreme Court](https://www.notunmindful.org/we-cant-count-on-the-supreme-court.md) - The umpire picked a side: how John Robert and the Supreme Court is enabling fascism.
- [The military won't save us](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-military-wont-save-us.md) - The military's changing role under Trump "We Used to Think the Military Would Stand Up to Trump. We Were Wrong."
- [Civil rights under fire, again](https://www.notunmindful.org/civil-rights-under-fire-again.md) - The Supreme Court's war on voting rights how Louisiana v. Callais could End American democracy as we know it.
- [The war on education trickles down](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-war-on-education-trickles-down.md) - Unintended casualties: how Trump's war on "elite" universities devastate America's community colleges.
- [The great capitulation: how our most powerful institutions bowed to Trump](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-great-capitulation-how-our-most-powerful-institutions-bowed-to-trump.md) - Corporations and universities with the power to stand up to Trump are instead bowing to his authoritarianism and fascism.
- [Northern Virginia school districts lose federal funding over transgender policies](https://www.notunmindful.org/northern-virginia-school-districts-lose-federal-funding-over-transgender-policies.md) - The Education Department says it’ll pull funding from five Virginia districts over gender policies.
- [Not Unmindful weekly digest #3](https://www.notunmindful.org/not-unmindful-weekly-digest-3.md) - It's been busier than usual on the site this week.
- [DHS goes fully fascist in plain sight](https://www.notunmindful.org/dhs-goes-fully-fascist-in-plain-sight.md) - DHS's troubling social media campaign is more than mere "mean memes." It's full on use of imagery from fascist and white supremacist propaganda.
- [Civil servants at risk](https://www.notunmindful.org/civil-servants-at-risk.md) - First they came for the universities. Now for the expertise in state craft. Federal workers are now also under fire. How a pro-Trump group Ii waging war on civil servants.
- [White-washing the Smithsonian](https://www.notunmindful.org/white-washing-the-smithsonian.md) - White House orders sweeping review of Smithsonian Museums to ensure they align with their mythologies.
- [LGBTQ+ rights back in the crosshairs](https://www.notunmindful.org/lgbtq-rights-back-in-the-crosshairs.md) - Supreme Court may face first direct challenge to same-sex marriage rights Since 2015, courtesy of Kim Davis, of course (15 minutes weren't enough).
- [VCU preemptively caves on DEI](https://www.notunmindful.org/vcu-caves-on-dei.md) - VCU scrubs race references from scholarships amid federal DEI crackdown.
- [The Lost Cause lives on](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-lost-cause-lives-on.md) - Hegseth's order to restore a confederate memorial (without calling it what it is) perpetuates America's most pernicious historical lie.
- [An assault on civil rights 60 years in the making](https://www.notunmindful.org/an-assault-on-civil-rights-60-years-in-the-making.md) - Sixty years after its groundbreaking passage, the Voting Rights Act faces its gravest threats yet. It has evolved into a legal battlefield where the very foundations of American democracy are being contested.
- [Turning back the clock, women's suffrage edition](https://www.notunmindful.org/turning-back-the-clock-womens-suffrage-edition.md) - Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
- [Trump administration takes new aim at higher education with new directives](https://www.notunmindful.org/trump-administration-takes-new-aim-at-higher-education-with-new-directives.md) - The administration tightens it's grip on higher education, trying to exert more control on who colleges enroll and which grants are funded.
- [Pam Bondi just declared war on Civil Rights](https://www.notunmindful.org/pam-bondi-just-declared-war-on-civil-rights.md) - A new memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi aims to roll back diversity programs, effectively making it illegal to not give contracts to white people.
- [This has always been the endgame](https://www.notunmindful.org/this-has-always-been-the-endgame.md) - We're moving backwards on DEI and fighting racism, and the numbers from a new poll demonstrate this.
- [Texas Democrats flee to block Republican's unprecedented redistricting effort](https://www.notunmindful.org/texas-democrats-flee-to-block-republicans-unprecedented-redistricting-effort.md) - Historic quorum break aims to prevent dilution of minority voting power and protect democratic representation for them.
- [FCC approves Skydance's CBS takeover after major concessions to Trump](https://www.notunmindful.org/fcc-approves-skydances-cbs-takeover-after-major-concessions-to-trump.md) - Skydance's $8 billion deal for CBS raises serious questions about freedom of the press amid corporate capitulation to an administration allergic to criticism.
- [The return of a confederate general](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-return-of-a-confederate-general.md) - A statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike that demonstrators toppled and burned in 2020 will be reinstalled in D.C.
- [60 year old archive faces cuts due to the war on Black history](https://www.notunmindful.org/60-year-old-archive-faces-cuts-due-to-the-war-on-black-history.md) - The Amistad Research Center, one of largest repositories of Black history, was forced to cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended federal grants.
- [Americana becomes anti-immigrant propaganda](https://www.notunmindful.org/americana-becomes-anti-immigrant-propaganda.md) - A serious of DHS social posts and their use of American art should be very alarming to all. They already alarm the artists and their estates.
- [Brown capitulates](https://www.notunmindful.org/brown-capitulates.md) - Brown University caves to Trump's academic extortion. It makes a deal to preserve funding that guts civil rights protections and academic freedom.
- [Help support Not Unmindful](https://www.notunmindful.org/help-support-not-unmindful.md) - Help support Not Unmindful and keep the alive and producing commentary.
- [A nationwide network of racist Ruby Ridges?](https://www.notunmindful.org/a-nationwide-network-of-racist-ruby-ridges.md) - Return to the land, an openly racist and antiseptic movement with locations in Arkansas plans further expansion.
- [Faculty support for George Mason President triggers federal investigation](https://www.notunmindful.org/faculty-support-for-george-mason-president-triggers-federal-investigation.md) - The administrations broad, anti-intellectual and anti-DEI assault against universities continues. George Mason University seems to be the latest target.
- [Neo-confederates fight to preserve lost cause myths at Stone Mountain](https://www.notunmindful.org/confederate-group-fights-to-preserve-dangerous-historical-myths-at-stone-mountain.md) - Neo-confederates in Georgia are still fighting for the lost cause.
- [Housekeeping notes](https://www.notunmindful.org/housekeeping-notes.md) - Help spread the word and participate. I'd love to build a community here as well as the private groups.
- [Women’s contributions and men’s racism erased from history of national monument](https://www.notunmindful.org/womens-contributions-and-mens-racism-erased-from-history-of-national-monument.md) - An initiative to fill in historical gaps from the Muir Woods National Monument disappeared under pressure from the Trump administration.
- [Learning to love the hard truths](https://www.notunmindful.org/learning-to-love-the-hard-truths.md) - What happens when we sanitize our most difficult histories? A powerful essay about Oklahoma offers lessons for struggling with painful pasts.
- [A theocratic movement takes root in D.C.](https://www.notunmindful.org/a-theocratic-movement-takes-root-in-d-c.md) - Idaho again, this time with Christian theocratic nationalism.
- [W&L and endowment taxes](https://www.notunmindful.org/w-l.md) - Good news about how the effort to tax university endowments for W&L.
- [Idaho bans "Everyone is Welcome Here" in school](https://www.notunmindful.org/idaho-bans-everyone-is-welcome-here-in-school.md) - Idaho is trying to quash anything remotely related to past protests or DEI.
- [Returning to our past instead](https://www.notunmindful.org/returning-to-our-past-instead.md) - An article pointing out that America has lost it's moral compass.
- [Southern place names and glorification of the racist past](https://www.notunmindful.org/southern-place-names-and-glorification-of-the-racist-past.md) - A recent piece in the Tennessean brought to my attention by a fellow alumni nails it.
- [JD Vance's dangerous vision of American citizenship](https://www.notunmindful.org/jd-vances-dangerous-vision-of-american-citizenship.md) - JD Vance recently delivered a speech at the Claremont Institute that should alarm anyone who believes in the foundational promise of American democracy.
- [No news today](https://www.notunmindful.org/no-news-today.md) - So a plea. If you want to help our mission, holler.
- [Always worth remembering](https://www.notunmindful.org/always-worth-remembering.md) - What to a slave is the fourth of July.
- [Anti-semitism too from the top](https://www.notunmindful.org/anti-semitism-too-from-the-top.md) - Yep. White supremacists hate Jews too.
- [The assault on birthright citizenship](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-assault-on-birthright-citizenship.md) - The attempt to end birthright citizenship is un-American in the most fundamental sense.
- ["We're all rats now"](https://www.notunmindful.org/welcome-to-the-racist-police-state.md) - The reaction to Mamdani's win highlights the inherent racism that we must fight against.
- [This is the history they are trying to erase](https://www.notunmindful.org/this-is-the-history-they-are-trying-to-erase.md) - A sampling of the history the anti-DEI crusade is trying to erase.
- [Southern politicians and racism, Alabama edition](https://www.notunmindful.org/southern-politicians-and-racism-alabama-edition.md) - Senator Tommy Tuberville has used some non-coded racist language in response to Zohran Mamdani's primary victory in NYC.
- [UPDATE: University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration](https://www.notunmindful.org/trumps-fight-with-universities-and-dei-continues.md) - After a much publicized feud with Harvard University, The New York Times reported on June 26, 2025, that Trump has no turned his attention to the University of Virginia.
- [The war on DEI](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-war-on-dei.md) - Starting in 2021, conservative activists formed a network across at least a dozen states to systematically target DEI programs.
- [Corporations and Juneteenth](https://www.notunmindful.org/corporations-and-juneteenth.md) - Many companies have withdrawn sponsorship from Juneteenth events, with some citing budget cuts related to DEI program reductions.
- [Trump and black history](https://www.notunmindful.org/trump-and-black-history.md) - Trump has consistently tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing it or denying that it happened.
- [Renaming and dog whistles](https://www.notunmindful.org/renaming-and-dog-whistles.md) - On June 10, the Army announced that seven Army bases whose names were changed in 2023 because they honored Confederate leaders would revert back to their original names
- [On Juneteenth](https://www.notunmindful.org/on-juneteenth.md) - Brief thoughts on a holiday that the racist rump of this country hates even more than MLK Day.
- [A bit of history](https://www.notunmindful.org/a-bit-of-history.md) - A brief explanation of why I'm doing this and why it's a matter of the University's history.
- [So, yeah we start again](https://www.notunmindful.org/so-yeah-we-start-again.md) - Once more unto the breach. The world today demands action on every front.
- [About Not Unmindful](https://www.notunmindful.org/about-not-unmindful.md) - What is Not Unmindful and why do we care?

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