Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD

President Obama improved the situation for all Americans, it is also clear that his unwillingness or inability to target programs toward the African American poor maintained the size of the income gap, and maintained the fact that African Americans experience twice as much poverty as whites, earning only 60 percent of the incomes that whites do.

While it appears that 45 has given dreamers some hope by delaying enforcement of DACA elimination for six months, and by making nice with Democratic leaders, the drama of dangling possibilities in front of folks and then snatching them away is typical 45 showmanship and irrationality.

While I don’t agree with all of McCain’s soaring sentiments, I am moved by his grace. And, again in contrast to 45, he acknowledged President Obama, while 45 spent years disparaging him with his “birther” arguments.

So what young man, a product of segregation, would have imagined himself navigating influential and integrated waters, and making a profound difference.

45’s tweets are simply the tip of the iceberg. They illustrate a lack of decency that is worse than the incivility of name-calling. The indecency and incivility in this administration is as much about flawed and inhumane public policy as juvenile name-calling.

There will be no reimbursement for Planned Parenthood. Cuts in Medicaid. Health insurance premiums determined by age. Scant protection for those with pre-existing conditions. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

It is in the public interest that those incarcerated maintain and nourish family contacts, but too many prison administrators have another idea. They want to make money from the desperate situation of the incarcerated.