The key to motivating young voters? Young candidates
September 18, 2020One of the most exciting parts of this year’s Democratic National Convention for me was the keynote speech delivered collectively by a group of young progressive elected officials, many of them Black. They showed us the potential for a promising future once we have gotten past the presidency of Donald Trump. They also showed us […]
Police Brutality and Racism in the U.S. and Latin America
September 10, 2020On May 25, 2020, a convenience store employee called 911 and told the police there was a possible fraudulent situation involving a counterfeit $20 bill. Shortly after, the suspect was unconscious and pinned beneath three police officers, showing no signs of life. An hour and twenty minutes later, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was […]
America’s mistreatment of its Black citizens
September 4, 2020When a seventeen-year-old White boy walks down the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, with a loaded automatic weapon, he is cheered and thanked by the police and offered a water bottle. No matter that he’d killed two people and wounded another. His attorney says it was self-defense, and Kenosha Sherriff Miskinis said the shootings would not […]
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August 27, 2020What would you do if somebody walked by your house and promised to rob it the next day? Most of us would take every precaution, checking the locks, the door, and the windows. Some of us might weapon up, making sure we could defend our homestead. Some might also reach out to law enforcement, sharing […]
Harris’ selection represents women leading the nation through crisis
August 21, 2020“I just sat with that for a minute. I just sat there. And then I found, out of nowhere, just tears coming down — like they are now. I thought about Betty Shabazz. I thought about Coretta Scott King. I thought about Maya Angelou. I thought about Dorothy Height. And I thought about everything that […]
Ambition should not be a ‘dirty’ word
August 13, 2020Politics can be strange. Sometimes the analysis of a political campaign can raise as many questions as it answers. From discussion around the current Biden campaign we have learned that, depending upon one’s perspective, the word AMBITION holds both positive and negative connotations. Some seem to think of ambitious as synonymous with arrogance. As a […]
Brownshirts in our streets
August 6, 2020The unidentified goon squads snatching people off the streets of Portland, Ore., have a chilling resemblance to a similar fascist tool of oppression that arose in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. The paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, dubbed “Brownshirts” because of the color of their uniforms, first appeared within Adolph […]
In John Lewis’ Honor: Restore the voting rights act
July 31, 2020“Although the court did not deny that voter discrimination still exists, it gutted the most powerful tool this nation has ever had to stop discriminatory voting practices from becoming law. Those justices were never beaten or jailed for trying to register to vote. They have no friends who gave their lives for the right to […]
Children’s lives are too precious to risk reopening schools
July 24, 2020“Common sense and intelligence can still determine what we do, even in this crazy environment. We’re not going to use our children as guinea pigs.” – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Of the many questions the deadly coronavirus pandemic has forced the nation to confront, the question of whether to reopen schools is one of […]
Sports Have the Potential to Help Unite Us; Racial Slurs Must Go
July 17, 2020“Racism runs rampant in towns and cities neighboring large Indigenous populations. I’ve been told to ‘go back to the reservation’ and asked by White people to search for their stolen items on the reservation. The drunken Indian trope permeates majority-White towns and cities where Natives live in poverty. Plains Indians have also faced slurs such […]
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