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It’s Been a Lousy Week in Politics, and Some of It Is Obama’s Fault
It’s been a horrible week in politics, and it just keeps getting worse. Now, I don’t entirely agree with my colleague Terrell J. Starr’s assessment from yesterday. I don’t think we’re fucked—yet. But if we are collectively watching the movie of America on a date with Authoritarianism, then they just finished dinner, canceled Uber and…
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I Finally See It: Democrats Don’t Hate Trump As Much as They Love White Supremacy
I’ve never really trusted the Democratic Party. Why should I? In a political system that forces us into one of two often problematic choices, it never made sense for me as a black person to decide between Kang and Kodos; in the end, they’ll both try to enslave us. However, like most African Americans with…
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It’s Not Slavery, It’s Not Japanese Internment: Trump’s Immigration Policy Is Like the Great Migration
America tried everything to keep the migrants out. Men and women were arrested at the border. Children were separated from parents. People got thrown in jail for violating random rules that nobody knew or understood. Kids went missing and the white nationalist president blamed his political opponents and the victims at the border. As much…
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Jeff Sessions Quotes the Bible to Justify Abusing Immigrants; God Laughs
If you hear somebody quote the Bible outside of church, it’s usually not a good sign. The occasional gasp of “Jesus Christ” or “Gaht damn” and various forms of “Jesus be a fence” are all right, but those aren’t really Bible quotes and could denote anything from having missed the bus to winning the daily…
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It’s Been 100 Days and Atlanta’s Still Got a Mayor Named Keisha
Once Donald Trump got into office (with fewer votes than Hillary Clinton) and threw the country into chaos, suddenly Americans started paying attention to elections. The pundits were obsessed with the Virginia gubernatorial elections, the resistance was all over the Jon Ossoff special election in Georgia, and everyone who had a teenage daughter cared about…
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LeBron James Is Finally Free From Cleveland and It Couldn’t Have Happened to a Nicer City
It all started with a phone call. “Hey, if I can get you a Cavs ticket for Friday, would you come?” It was one of my former students, offering me a chance to sit in the Quicken Loans Arena’s executive suites, eat free chicken wings and hobnob with some high-rolling political-type folks. This just another…
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Is the Trump Administration Running a Child-Trafficking Ring or Nah? Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole
Donald Trump has been the conspiracy whisperer throughout his entire public life. Even before he was president, he was convinced that the Central Park Five were guilty (they weren’t). He spent years claiming that former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya (he wasn’t). He suggested that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death may have…
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Stacey Abrams’ Campaign Was the Hogwarts School for Black Girl Magic
There was an idea, hatched back in 2017, of bringing together a group of remarkable people to see if they could be something more; to see if they could work together when we needed them; to fight the battles we never could. … They were the Stacey Abrams campaign for governor of Georgia …. Forgive…
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Stacey Abrams Wins Big in Georgia and Now Has a Shot at Becoming 1st African-American Female Governor in US History
While the polls in Georgia officially closed at 7 p.m., the window of opportunity for Stacey Abrams, the first black woman to win a gubernatorial nomination for any major party in Georgia, opened up. With only 34 percent of the vote in, everybody from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to CNN to Stevie Wonder could see that…
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Is Making Star Wars’ Lando Calrissian ‘Pansexual’ an Assault on Black Manhood? Maybe, but Not in the Way You Think
Buckle up, everyone; we’re about to talk about sex, Star Wars and Hollywood! According to a recent HuffPost interview, Jonathan Kasdan, a screenwriter for Solo: A Star Wars Story, envisions Lando Calrissian, played by Donald Glover, as pansexual. “There’s a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee [Williams’ portrayals of Lando’s] sexuality,” Kasdan explained. “I mean,…
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