It's interesting that those who pay...lip service to the idea of the disadvantaged lifting themselves up by their own bootstraps and turning their lives around are the same people who are the first lobbing cruel rhetorical grenades at those who have worked hard, defied the odds, and reached the zenith of their professions.
Neither party cares to see America reduced by the unquantifiable sum that Dealey Plaza or Ford’s Theatre diminished it.
"Comics have a great capacity to bring light and understanding in a way that dense prose can’t always do—and it’s hard to get denser than the Warren Report..."
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'America’s racial underclass, the off-the-grid hustlers and entrepreneurs who many Black elites ignore or demonize, rarely sees political leaders of any color advocating for them...'
The divide, while generational on the surface, is also fueled by class, as young people with education, networks and access tend to view politics as a long-term process – one that comes with victories, but also compromise and setbacks. Millions of young Blacks have no entrée to the nuances of American democracy and racial struggle. Their world is more painfully straightforward and wrenching—Black folks get shot in the streets with no hope of justice.
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...a community’s 'soul' is not just some ineffable or magical quality. Urban planning and local laws actually affect it.
The show revolves around the last major speech Dr. King gave, April 4th, 1967, one year to the day before he was assassinated.
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you...actually seem to believe...that it is plausible for a sworn and armed officer to kill a citizen and do so in anonymity.
"They flew in shooting; they flew out shooting..."
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Albert Shen has been appointed by the White House as the Deputy Director of Minority Business Development Agency...
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...examines the four turbulent years from 1972 to 1976, the bridge from Nixon’s very visible demise to Reagan’s increasingly visible triumph. All three have a trademark style. They are prodigiously researched; they are long; they are funny; and, in their zeal for narrative, they owe more to the high-quality journalism of a David Halberstam or a Theodore White than to the footnoting, the theorizing, and the narrowed focus of academic historical writing. In addition, Perlstein’s...books trace a single argument—that the conservative movement divided the nation.
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Donna Ladd, of the Jackson Free Press
...it turns out that this bloody road we walk...is not as cyclical as we may have once thought. This road is not a circle, it’s a downward spiral, leading to new lows, which, I’m sad to say, we’ll be unlucky enough to experience.