Bear with me. I’m talking about being funny. This is not what I expected to be writing about today, and nothing feels the least bit funny to me about the world I’m living in – or about the stumbling leg pain and imbalance the aging process has bequeathed me, not to mention . . . huh? What did you say? Oh yeah, I can barely hear.
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But hope is not strategy and it risks blinding Democrats to a harsh reality. Despite widespread dissatisfaction with the current administration, the Democratic Party remains less favorable in voters’ eyes than the Republican Party. Criticizing Trump is not enough. To regain voter confidence, they must also reevaluate and change their own policies and positions.
Florida’s primary election poses interesting questions for Black voters and representation. Election Night brought about the opportunity to help elect the state’s first Black governor, first Black US Senator and the choice of a white Jewish woman to represent a congressional district historically held by a Black member of Congress.
Students of history should remember one fundamental lesson: no nation, regardless of its wealth, military strength, or perceived invincibility, is too powerful to collapse. The Russian and Ottoman empires disappeared. The Soviet Union dissolved. Britain’s vast empire receded.
Working-class men of every color have been in crisis for generations. The way out is to come together, for the sake of all our kids.
Will The Democrats Come Together In Time To Win The Midterm Elections?
This is a fragment of a poem (“Vigil”) I wrote 25 years ago, in response to the “vigil” some gun-rights advocates held in front of a school in Columbine, Colorado, while Bill and Hillary Clinton were in the gym meeting with students, in the wake of the terrible shooting at the local high school. The men held up bright yellow signs reading “Gun Control Kills Kids” and “We Will Never Give Up Our Guns.”
For a split second, I felt sorry for Stephen A. Smith. But then the outspoken ESPN journalist and political commentator provided a lesson about allyship and representation that caused the solitary tear I could have shed to roll back up into my eye socket.
As global crises descend around him, Donald Trump seems increasingly inca-pable of a rational response. He rants and rails, threatens and indulges in delusions—and then retreats to one or the other of his vanity projects. This is not a president in control of himself or his position. And it’s costly. Here are the latest examples.
After the August 10 earthquake in Colombia, rescuers heard a man calling from beneath a collapsed building. He was alive, he said, and he was with a baby. The infant and her mother were eventually rescued.