Chadwick came to the White House to work with kids when he was playing Jackie Robinson. You could tell right away that he was blessed. To be young, gifted, and Black; to use that power to give them heroes to look up to; to do it all while in pain – what a use of his years.
Doc Rivers with raw emotion and a thunderbolt cry for justice: "All you hear is Donald Trump & all of them talking about fear. We're the ones getting killed. We're the ones getting shot...It's amazing, we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us back."
I mailed a birthday card with a 1st class stamp at a Post Office on July 28 hoping for delivery on August 1.
It arrived today August 15.
It took 18 days to travel 3 miles.
Last year’s birthday card arrived the day after I mailed it at the same Post Office.
Vote early.
I criticized and disagreed with Obama plenty. But watching this eulogy...damn, I miss him. I miss a President who can show emotion and lift our spirits, call to our better angels and remind us of what unites us as Americans. I miss a President who speaks in complete sentences.
100 days from Election Day, our country is in crisis. The fight for social, racial, and economic justice has reached a new threshold. Coronavirus is raging out of control. Unemployment is at Great Depression levels. And Trump is unable to govern at even the most elementary level.
When Elmo’s dad has a better take on the protests than most media outlets: “What we are seeing is people saying enough is enough. They want to end racism.”