So many media outlets did these chest-beating essays after 2016 vowing to get to know the country they cover better. And then, they all retreated into Resistance fantasy and ideological decadence. They know even less now.
I dunno, maybe in the middle of a pandemic, the biggest crisis people have ever faced, maybe, maybe offer them healthcare like the rest of the world would’ve helped.
In most states hair stylists legally must get far more training than police officers.
On average police get 100 hours of training on "use of force" & only 8 hours of training on deescalating a situation.
Respectability politics and civility will destroy this movement.
Sermons from “good cops” will lull you back to sleep.
Don’t stop until there is tangible change.
"There's no doubt that this is America's moment of reckoning," @cornelwest says of the mass protests across the U.S. in response to George Floyd's killing. It is "the American empire imploding — its foundations being shaken with uprisings from below."
I appreciate that protesters went after CNN and spared the Waffle House.
There is a logic there. CNN has probably done more to keep Black people poor than the Klan.
Joe Biden vs Trump in a debate might be a very scary moment for this country. Im scared to see him lie on his record, consistently say “my time is up” on a stage with Trump, or stumble w/ a person who has no morals (ie Trump). I want our candidate to be the antithesis to Trump
Don’t say you support a fracking ban when you don’t. Don’t say you didn’t write the bankruptcy bill when you were one of it’s biggest champions. Don’t say you supported ending Hyde a long time ago when you were just pressured into it last year.
This is basic. The truth matters.
Bernie is getting grilled for being against fracking. Thanks to the oil price drop, fracking is not economic *right now.* That's why Trump wants to bailout fracking companies. The #GreenNewDeal gets communities off the boom-bust-cycle. #DemDebate