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The discomfort I'm sitting in today
I'm still reeling emotionally and doubt that it's a good time to write any analysis about what happened on Tuesday. There are an awf...
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On Monday DeSantis held a press conference to announce the vengeance he seeks after the Mouse House pulled a fast one and basically stripped... -
Back in 2011, David Roberts wrote that Republicans had become the "post-truth" party. [Republicans] talk about cutting the defici... -
I've read the entire suit Disney filed against DeSantis - which you can find here . One of the most notable things is that it is written...
Absolutely. Now, if we look through some of the photos of him as a child (I don't have many, but I'll take a look)
ReplyDeleteHis comment is eternal ... it's who he is and how he reaches our depths.
I would not doubt that PBO got the "talk" from someone when he came to the mainland to go to college.
ReplyDeleteHe talked about trying to get a cab in NYC! He knows personally what happened to Trayvon and he knows personally that were he not President and had a son, Trayvon could have been his son. He knows!!!
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Yup.
ReplyDeleteWhen Trayvon's story first broke, I thought, "this kid could've been a future president. Something like this could have snuffed out Barack Obama, Jr.'s life when he was a teenager."
And of course, President Obama's statement was perfect: it held the implicit painful and obvious truth every black parent in America lives with every day. I know his statement jarred a lot of white consciences -- and that's good. That means Trayvon's life is broadly being seen as having value -- something of a break from the usual social treatment of young black lives in America. It's time for white America to see this ugly truth plainly. I guess Rox News and right-wing media will serve a useful purpose here, if only to provide an instructive stark and ugly contrast to the reality being acknowledged -- at long last -- by decent Americans.
My own grandson could be Trayvon in ten years. This has to stop!
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