Politics
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Democrats Will Unite After They Finish Self-Destructing Over Emails, Bernie-or-Bust Crowd
As the Democratic National Convention gets underway, it’s always good to remember what Will Rogers once said: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” And boy, those words have never rung more true than this year. Where the Republicans, when not running Donald Mussolini for president, are usually…
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This Election, Let’s Refocus on the Pillar Issues
As citizens, we deserve election seasons that are seesawing, back-and-forth spectacles of clashing ideas. Instead we find ourselves often immersed in the frantic pace of the horse race. Campaigns devolve into poll-watching parades, focused more on opposing personalities than on issues of great consequence. Issues get lost. This is one of those elections. The general…
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Shoots Herself in the Foot Right Before the DNC
The Wikileaks drop on Friday has brought up the dreaded words “email,” “rigged” and “Debbie Wasserman Schultz” again right before a week that was supposed to eliminate all of those words from the minds of Democratic National Convention-goers and viewers. Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz will resign from her position at the end…
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The RNC Is Over, but Can We Talk About Pastor Mark Burns?
Look, I’m a simple black man. I only have a few rules in life. If you call it “stuffing” instead of “dressing”—the way all right-thinking black folks refer to it—don’t bother friending me on Facebook. You either root for the Los Angeles Lakers or you’re just wasting my time. And if you’re against black people,…
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Donald Trump, America’s Savior: 3 Takeaways From His RNC Speech
On Thursday night, I sat in a booth with several other journalists and watched Donald Trump tell America he was going to save us. He was going to save us from the undocumented immigrant criminals, the lazy politicians, the bad trade deals, the violence in our streets and the terrorism abroad. His speech was more…
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The One Reaction Everyone Should Have to Donald Trump’s RNC Nomination Speech
Donald Trump is the GOP nominee. No more presumptive. He’s it. He’s the man. He’s the one the Republicans have quarterbacking their team this election season. On Thursday night, Trump gave a loud, boisterous, bleak speech in which he gladly accepted the Republican Party’s nomination of him for president. So this is real now. And…
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Ted Cruz Defies GOP, Won’t Endorse Trump, Is Gangsta
The Republican convention has been hard to watch this week, and not just because of the loud, gaudy, Hunger Games-like banners floating across the stage. The convention, which is supposed to highlight what the Republican Party has to offer the American people (and demonstrate unity), has failed at almost every level. First you had the…
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Keep America Safe Again: A Black Person’s Guide to Safety, Space and Activism at the RNC
“Be safe.” “Stay safe, brother.” “Be safe, praying for you.” These are the paraphrases of just about every text, Facebook post and social media DM I’ve received since spreading the word that I was headed to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week. The absolute palpable fear on the part of black people I…