Black History Month is an important time for prominent Black leaders to grandstand and quote the words of a courageous leader like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They are willing to quote but unwilling to imitate.
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Chronicling Black men’s political disgust as well as their willingness to sacrifice their lives and votes clearly demonstrates their courage and resolve. Consequently, Black men are prepared to use their ballots as leverage. This action is to force President Biden to heed their demands. And to prick his conscience such that he also fights for a more perfect Union inclusive for all people.
TIME TO FLIP THE SCRIPT ON THE AMERICAN IMAGINARY
Social Needs of Minority/Black Older Adults in Central Florida
The Politics of Hate
Unions are once again playing a significant role in a presidential election. Joe Biden joins striking auto workers on a picket line in Michigan; Donald Trump meets with Teamsters leaders at Mar-a-Lago and Washington D.C. Vying for working-class votes, the candidates show how choices made by both union and non-union workers are seen as pivotal to election victory.
Putin demonstrated in his “interview” with Tucker Carlson the delusional version of Russian history that rationalizes his brutality. Hamas and Netanyahu continue to demonstrate Auden’s classic line: “Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.” It often seems as if vast swaths of the Middle East operate under the collective delusion that the various parties, state or non-state, can kill their way out of insecurity and injustice.
NATO promised at that point–at least the US rep James Baker promised in 1990–that NATO wasn’t looking to expand, but presumably rather to sit quietly to see if peace is really possible without its oppositional military alliance, dominated by the Soviet Union.
For some time, it’s been apparent that the world’s nations are not meeting the growing challenges to human survival.
Aleksei Navalny, to all effects murdered by Putin, represented by contrast about as absolute a standard of what might constitute a morally honest life as humanly possible. He was not perfect; nobody is. In his early political life he dallied with racist forms of nationalism, which he outgrew.