Barack and Trayvon
is the title of this Charles M. Blow column for tomorrow's New York Times. I just finished listening to Blow (among others including Jeffrey Toobin, Mark Geragos, Anna Deavere Smith, Geoffrey Canada, etc) at at Town Hall on Anderson Cooper. His words - and those of others - were moving. Blow's written words are just as moving. Consider just this opening paragraph: On Friday President Obama picke
Jonathan Capehart reacts to the President's remarks today
are up in a piece at the Washington Post titled President Obama speaks up for Trayvon Martin. Those who have watched MSNBC this evening have heard Capehart mention this piece several times. Here is the first paragraph (minus the hyperlinks): President Obama’s unannounced entry into the White House Briefing Room took reporters by surprise. But what he had to say took the nation by surprise. In his
Simplicity
Personal pride does not end with noble blood. It leads people to a fond value of their persons, especially if they have any pretence to shape or beauty. Some are so taken with themselves it would seem that nothing else deserved their attention. Their folly would diminish if they could spare but half the time to think of God, that they spend in washing, perfuming, painting and dressing their bodies
Ta-Nehesi Coates on Obama considering Ray Kelly for Homeland Security
is simply a must-read from today's New York Times. His piece is titled Raising the Wrong Profile. It begins like this: In 2003, State Senator Barack Obama spearheaded a bill through the Illinois legislature that sought to put the clamps on racial profiling. Obama called racial profiling “morally objectionable,” “bad police practice” and a method that mainly served to “humiliate individuals and f
7-18-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: More evidence future for Republicans is bleakcan be seen in The ARIS 2013 National College Student Survey done by Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, who are public policy research professors and the authors of the renowned ARIS survey series since 1990. I received a press release on this several days ago, from which I quote several things: The surveyed students, ages 18 to