On Friday morning, Karine Jean-Pierre, author and chief public affairs office for MoveOn, tweeted the meme above about the Ahmaud Aubrey scandal. Rev. Jacqui Lewis, one of my colleagues from Vote Common Good wrote she's "sick of writing emails about dead Black people. This week, video footage surfaced of the February 23rd murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
America lost our greatest living poet today. Last night Toni Morrison died, age 88. In 1993 she became the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize. She had already won a Pulitzer for her novel, Beloved, 5 years earlier. In 2012 President Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her work focused on African American life and culture.
Friday, an always over-the-top macho braggart, Joe Biden, was still trying to get out from under the smack down he suffered at the hands of Kamala Harris for his racist record. That smack-down cost him between 5 and 10 polling points.
I'm still sticking with the theory that there's a mammoth and unstoppable tsunami forming up now and preparing to sweep away the Republican majorities in the House and maybe even the-- nearly impossible-- Senate. This kind of thing-- from a respectable Michigan blogger and party activist-- makes me wonder if it really is unstoppable though.
-by NoahFor those who don’t remember, Philando Castile was a Missouri-born American citizen who was shot at, 7 times, while sitting in his car, by St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez back on July 6, 2016.Castile had been stopped by the police in a traffic stop as local police were looking for a pair of robbery suspects.
Dear (White) Liberal San Franciscan,- by Denise SullivanI regret to inform, you missed it: The final day of celebration for the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church on Fillmore Street was Sunday.
Corey Robin, a political science professor at Brooklyn College, wrote a phenomenal book I read some years ago-- and talked a lot about here at DWT-- The Reactionary Mind. Musing aloud last month for Salon, Robin let his readers know what Bill and Hillary Clinton mean to him: "Sister Souljah, welfare reform, Ricky Ray Rector and the crime bill." Yeah, not a fan.
