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REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons

SUNDAY

Quote of the Day

July 15, 2013

'We are sick and tired of being sick and tired. What

we are now charged with is the responsibility to

sustain our unity and have our emotions fuel a

relentless pursuit of reform.

'In 2013, it should not be this difficult, by every

statistical metric, to be a black man in America.'

New York City Councilmember

Jumaane D. Williams

New York Times

July 15, 2013

 

Toon of the Day

11 P.M. in Florida

Taylor Jones

 

MONDAY

Quote of the Day

July 15, 2013

'While Mr. Zimmerman's conviction might have

provided an emotional catharsis, we would still be a

country plagued by racism, which persists in ever

more insidious forms despite the Supreme Court's

sanguine assessment that "things have changed

dramatically," as it said in last month's ruling

striking down the heart of the Voting Rights Act.

(The Justice Department is right to continue its

investigation into whether Mr. Zimmerman may still

be prosecuted under federal civil rights laws.)'

Editorial

New York Times

July 15, 2013

 

Toon of the Day

Democracy?

Joel Pett

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day

'We cannot allow our country to be a place where an

unarmed teenager walking to his own home can be

shot with impunity by a self-styled neighborhood

watch vigilante. The gun death of a teenager should

not require the protests of thousands to get a proper

investigation. Young people of color should not have

to fear going out in public, walking down the streets

of their neighborhoods, or sitting in their own cars.

Racial profiling is a menace; we will not let the

unsubstantiated -- and racist -- fears of some run

roughshod over the rights and lives of people of

color.

'NOW activists have added their voices to the

groundswell demanding that the Department of

Justice investigate George Zimmerman for violating

the civil rights of Trayvon Martin. We will continue

in our common struggle for equality and justice for

all people.'

National Organization for Women (NOW),

the country's largest organization of feminist

activists with 500,000 contributing members

and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of

Columbia.

July 15, 2013

 

Toon of the Day

Sneak Attack

Tom Toles - Washington Post

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day

'Tell me it's a sick joke: Former U.S. Treasury

Secretary Lawrence Summers, the guy who tops the

list of those responsible for sabotaging the world's

economy, is lobbying to be the next chairman of the

Federal Reserve. But no, it makes perfect sense,

since Summers has long succeeded spectacularly by

failing.

'Why should his miserable record in the Clinton and

Obama administrations hold him back from future

disastrous adventures at our expense? With Ben

Bernanke set to step down in January, and Obama

still in deep denial over the pain and damage his

former top economic adviser Summers brought to

tens of millions of Americans, this darling of Wall

Street has yet another shot to savage the economy.'

Journalist/Commentator

Robert Scheer

truthdig

July 17, 2013

 

Toon of the Day

Threatened

Adam Zygua - Buffalo News

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day

'But between 1979 and 2011, income growth slowed

and favored those at the top. Since 1979, the total

share of income claimed by the bottom 99 percent

has steadily decreased. By 2011, the top one percent

had captured an additional 10 percent of the

nation's income.

'This was the result of intentional policy decisions

on taxes, trade, labor, macroeconomics, and

financial regulation.'

Elise Gould

Director of Health Policy Research

Economic Policy Institute

July 18, 2013

 

Toon of the Day

'Extraneous'

Stuart Carlson

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day

'I live in the city where Dred Scott challenged his

slave status for years and was unrelenting in

pursuit of freedom for his family until the courts

finally granted it twelve years later. To me, that's a

beautiful and inspiring example of struggle. Yet, it

seems like the words of U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Taney have permeated the minds and spirits of the

city and ultimately the country: Blacks have no

rights that whites are bound to respect.

'Unless our inertia takes us back to the days in this

country where people of color and women had no

rights, the imperative is clear. We must unite the

masses of people to rise up and provide a strategic

plan for organizing our communities to victories.'

Jamala Rogers

BlackCommentator.com Editorial

Board member and columnist,

founder and chair emeritus of the

Organization for Black Struggle in

St. Louis, author of The Best of

the Way I See It - A Chronicle of Struggle

BC

July 18, 2013

 

Toon of the Day

Another Setting

Mike Keefe

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day

'You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I

said that this could have been my son. Another way

of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me

35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the

African American community at least, there's a lot of

pain around what happened here, I think it's

important to recognize that the African American

community is looking at this issue through a set of

experiences and a history that doesn't go away.'

President Barack Obama

White House

July 19, 2013

 

Toon of the Day

Jim Crow

Bill Day