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Has the President Declared War on the Poor and People of Color? The AME Church’s Response to the verbal attacks on ‘the Squad” and the City of Baltimore

     The President’s racist and sexist attacks on Representatives Ilana Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib are vile, vicious and unprecedented verbal violence against American citizens and Congressional leaders by a sitting occupant of the Oval Office. The President’s remarks about these extraordinary women were not only disrespectful and destructive; they demean the office that he holds.

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There is Not a Racist Bone in my body

     Send her back is a turning point, “With Trump’s naked hatred and cruelty captured on live television, and along with it, so was the seething anger of the hard-core Trump base. The whole nation saw in dramatic fashion that Trump voters understood his meaning perfectly well and watched them not just agree with it but also amplify it, with as ugly and hate-curdled a chant as one could imagine.”

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We need evidence-based decision making

Imagine for a moment that political discussions can assume the same evidence-based knowledge as active components in decision making as treatment pathways do when responding to illness and disease. The impact of care is studied out of a need for protecting and preserving quality of life. Politics should also serve these same ends, but, indeed, politics carries a burden healthcare does not: different values. Forgetting that there are legitimate differences in values—like I prioritize equality over security or others prioritize fiscal responsibility over freedom–let’s briefly return to the idea of truth as a foundation for politics and policy.