"We are scared as Black people in America."
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(@CNN) August 25, 2020Posts Tagged ‘politics
Here is a gift to white people who insist they know what Martin Luther King Jr. would have said.
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Spike Lee said that when Do The Right Thing came out, a lot of critics thought it irresponsible to show Mookie thro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Lysol In E Flat (@GeeDee215) May 28, 2020Spike often notes that it's exclusively white people who ask him if Mookie did the right thing by throwing the tras… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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This is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer talking about the history of racial terror lynchings of Black people and how some Bla… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The Funky Educator (@MrKinetik) May 28, 2020They. Know. What. They've. Done. To. Us. twitter.com/mrkinetik/stat…
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to say "I'm not political" is a privilege revealing you haven't had your very existence politicised for you
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Book Worms
The President after spotting Chuck Todd’s comic (Photo by Pete Souza)
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The Bought Books
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande
Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business (Junie B. Jones Series #2) – Barbara Park
A Barnyard Collection: Click, Clack, Moo and More – Doreen Cronin
I Spy Sticker Book and Picture Riddles by Jean Marzollo
Nuts to You – Lynn Rae Perkins
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones Series #1) – Barbara Park
Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson
Redwall (Redwall Series #1) – Brian Jacques
Mossflower (Redwall Series #2) – Brian Jacques
Mattimeo – Brian Jacques (Redwall Series #3)
Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms – Katherine Rundell
The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan
The Laughing Monsters – Denis Johnson
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Nora Webster – Colm Toibin
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China – Evan Osnos
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The President & Malia spot Chuck Todd's comic
"Looking looooonely" 🙂
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) November 29, 2014
President Obama, Sasha and Malia shop at Politics and Prose bookstore for “Small Business Saturday,” on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014, in Washington
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The results of Tuesday’s “earth shattering” election are quite revelatory, but not for the reasons bruited about by your average MSNBC/Fox/CNN vacuous pundit.
Although President Obama won’t use the word—and bless him for it—it was a “shellacking” which the voters meted out to the Democratic Party. But let’s examine this “mandate” a bit further.
The turnout for the midterm election stands at 36%, a low not seen since the 1940s. That’s 36% of registered voters. Voter registration in its turn doesn’t encompass all eligible voters. This Al Jazeera article has this telling paragraph:
Election turnout is often cited as an indicator of the strength of the mandate of winning candidates, but it can be a misleading statistic: Turnout is usually measured as a proportion of registered voters rather than of those eligible to vote — and census numbers show that more than 70 million U.S. citizens of voting age are not registered voters.
Get that? 70 million Americans who are eligible to vote aren’t even registered. What does this mean? That the number of registered voters is at best a bare majority of eligible voters. And then that the voters who turned out were a minority of that number. And then that the GOP “landslide” depended on a further minority of registered voters, which in turn doesn’t account for all eligible voters.
This opens up a veritable cornucopia of delicious dysfunction.
The Obama Diary 
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