Author: Carma Henry

Police Hurt Thousands of Teens Every Year A Striking Number Are Black Girls

     The program seeks to steer vulnerable individuals like Hill away from violence. It provides participants as much as $1,000 each month to meet anti-violence goals like completing classes or acquiring a job.

     Instinct set in. The 73-year-old Taylor bolted out of her office and ran to the opposite end of the school, putting on two layers of gloves on the way. When Taylor arrived, she learned a 13-year-old boy had been shot in a stairwell by another student just minutes earlier.

      It’s about time the U.S. Justice Department began protecting the elected school board members of this nation, whose lives are being threatened on a daily basis by neo-Nazis and other ultraconservative, know-nothing, low-IQ Fox News watching fascist numbskulls. 

     “Fresh off a win on Saturday with a global corporate tax agreement, and some progress toward restoring the nuclear accord with Iran, President Biden returned on the final day of the Group of 20 summit on Sunday facing far more difficult challenges, including pressure to take stronger action on climate change and to make concrete progress on delivering Covid vaccines to the poorest countries,” says Jim Tankersley, reporter of the New York Times.

  I’ve been writing editorial and opinion columns for most of my life. My writing longevity has endured because I’m smart enough to know to stay away from writing about “hair” and “religion”.

      Americans need to take time and regroup before the world’s most powerful Country with the greatest Democracy self-destruct. Democrats in a cavalier manner characterizes Democracy as being messy whenever in fighting causes them to quarrel rather than comprise. Republicans’ use Democracy as a political weapon to take control of government at the state and national levels by means of party dominance.

     Across the country, Republican state legislators have been busy imposing new voting restrictions and devising corrupt redistricting schemes to give their party more power than they could win under a fair system. Republicans in the U.S. Senate protected that wrongdoing again in October by using filibuster rules to stop federal voting rights legislation from coming up for debate. This is political obstruction of justice, and President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats must not allow it to stand. 

     Previous years’ conferences on climate change have been toothless agreement that has resulted in the lip-service Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Paris Agreement (2016). This year’s conference, known as COP26, is scheduled to take place on November 1-12 in Glasgow, Scotland.

“The USDA has a documented history of discriminating against Black people and communities of color. The federal government’s attempt to rectify this injustice should be applauded, not stopped,” said Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “If this critical assistance is not provided soon, Black farmers and other farmers of color who have struggled to overcome decades of discrimination and the economic impacts of the global pandemic will face the threat of losing their land and their livelihoods.” — Greene County Democrat