Issue: 828
July 23, 2020
Color of Law
Calling Out Racism and Anti-Semitism is a Responsibility
Executive Editor
today, when America needs a reckoning on racism, the current national leadership will not rise to the occasion.
(CNN) The public discourse in America over race, racism and anti-Semitism runs the risk of evolving into an oppression Olympics with no winners. Nevertheless, this pivotal…
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Commentary
Restoring Voting Rights Honors John Lewis
Editorial Board
Lewis said, "Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." To honor John Lewis, good trouble this November election would be to vote out our present Republican thugocracy. As voters, we don't have to capitulate to the powers that be, because the power of the people is greater than the people in power.
All Votes Matter! Civil rights icon US Representative John Lewis, who died of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, spent his life advocating equal access to the ballot…
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Commentary
Adding Fuel to the Fire of Our Pandemics
Editorial Board
Our 45th President puts Nero to shame. Our country is burning, with COVID cases rising, racial tensions rising. The President is pouring fuel on an already-flaming fire with his callous indifference, ineffective leadership, and irresponsible proclamations. He has so utterly failed to provide a national plan to combat corona that Republican governors have called him out.
Nero, the Roman Emperor who legendarily fiddled while Rome burned is a symbol for an irresponsible, ineffective, and callous leader who shows indifference to people in…
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Commentary
“Looting” and the Ministry of Truth
Editorial Board
Anti-Black is a symptom Trump shares with many white Americans. We are living in an America that can’t accept the truth—and that truth is that white America today is implicated in the maintenance of white supremacy. All pervasive and deep. Yet, despite the protests and Black Lives Matter movement, some Americans keep pointing to images of ‘looters’ as if the 400 years of America’s worship of violence against Black Americans will disappear. Down a memory hole.
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH All opinions don’t matter. It’s not that opinions are lies. But they could be. Dogs have six…
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Commentary
Beware of the Trumpian Slide to Authoritarianism and Worse – Solidarity America
Columnist
He plans to send in his no-name troops (drawn from whatever agency of law enforcement that he has under the Executive Branch), literally to battle demonstrators exercising their rights under the First Amendment. And battle, it will be, against unarmed civilians, so it is clear that it won’t be much of a battle for the Star Wars-like-equipped troopers of the president who thinks like he’s already a king.
Two things should give pause, even to his Republican enablers, as Donald Trump uses his presidential powers to violate the very meaning of democracy in the…
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Commentary
Trump, Burning Down Democracy
Columnist
The Biden campaign must quickly grip the fact of who their opponent is. He is irretrievably mentally and socially broken and more than willing to break and burn down our Democracy for his own egotistical needs. Are we, as a country, willing to devolve into Fascism to satisfy Donald Trump’s insatiable neediness?
Our Democracy is in crisis, and Donald Trump is burning it down. The nation has watched him closely during the past four years with optimism and…
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View from the Battlefield
Guaranteeing Equal Protection Under the Law
Editorial Board
The National Registry of Exonerations reports that there have been 2,644 exonerations since 1989 when it started tracking the injustices. There are thousands more languishing in U.S. prisons while trying to prove their innocence. That’s a total of 23,500 years lost by victims and their families due to a racist, unjust system. The time and missed life experiences can never be recovered.
The man in the White House masquerading as a president flaunted his blatant disrespect of the law when he pardoned another one of his felon friends.…
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