Tuesday’s results were perfectly coherent, a fight over two concepts central to our nation’s origins, its progress, and its future: the promises of and restrictions on political representation and political enfranchisement.
The best available evidence reflects high rates of uses of force nationally, with increased likelihood of police use of force against people of color, people with disabilities, LGBT people, people with mental health concerns, people with low incomes,
"We need to double down ... building multiracial coalition…understanding isolation is our enemy and the only way through this is together.”
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When one of my favorite political and historical analysts, Bill Fletcher Jr., announced the publication of a mystery, I could
not wait to get my hands on the book.
Bill Fletcher Jr, The Man Who Fell from the Sky, Hardball Press, Brooklyn NY, 2018
Donald Trump’s appeal to racial resentment worked better than it should have. The results from Tuesday suggest that his strategy might have been an effective one, even if it promises to destroy the country’s social cohesion.
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But we must do much, much more than vote. We have to think and act differently about the traumas we are all facing.
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