Pence demanding that Harris answer *his* own personal questions when he won’t even answer the moderator’s is gross, and exemplary of the gender dynamics so many women have to deal with at work.
While coronavirus touches us all, it is not an equal opportunity offender.
This virus has no eyes, and yet it knows exactly how we see each
other—and how we treat each other.
Let’s be clear: there is no vaccine for racism. We’ve gotta do the work.
It’s like he wakes up, reads the Sermon on the Mount, and asks “What is one way today I can embody the complete opposite of what I just read?”
Donald Trump is the most openly anti-Jesus’-teachings President of my lifetime. And millions of white Christians love him for it.
George Floyd and I were both arrested for allegedly spending a counterfeit $20 bill. For George Floyd, a man my age, with two kids, it was a death sentence. For me, it is a story I sometimes tell at parties. That, my friends, is White privilege.
My father said, “A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? ...It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met."
This nation was born with lofty ideals, but also with murderous subjugation of those in bondage, and their descendants. Racism has rent the justice of our national fabric ever since. The burden to right these injustices must fall most heavily on the privileged not the oppressed.
Trump is an inhumane racist. He poses a legitimate threat to people of color. He greenlit open fire on protesters. I am grieved and furious and remain stunned at the Christians who still back him.
I see a vision of a future that is brighter than we have known. I know it in my heart and soul. Please, don't feel like this is pulling us apart, I believe this is binding us to each other, but it must be all of us who makes these sacrifices.