Posts Tagged ‘president’
Joe Biden is giving Black farmers reparations and I’m here for it
We’re all waiting on our stimulus checks from Joe Biden’s COVID relief bill, and if the House approves the measure today, the president will sign it soon after, and we’ll start getting those checks in a few days. But there’s a measure in that bill that most of us don’t know about—a measure that puts…
Read More Biden can’t talk racial justice unless he addresses Black justice
President Joe Biden has signed several executive orders on racial equity, and while the orders are a good start, I do have one tiny issue. None of them is specific to Black folks. It’s not that I have a problem with our other melanated brothers and sisters. I’m down with the brown. It’s just that…
Read More Bannon like another hateful propagandist, Nazi Joseph Goebbels
WHEN I LEARNED of President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to elevate former Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon to chief strategist, I recalled the haunting words of a Jewish friend whom I’ve known for more than 20 years. Months ago, after Trump had uttered bigoted remarks about seemingly every group except his own, I asked this friend…
Read More Voting while black: Lessons from Hillary
In what is probably the biggest non-surprise in electoral politics this year, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that she’s throwing her hat in the ring for her husband Bill’s old job, President of the United States. This isn’t her first time at this particular rodeo. For all intents and purposes, the 2008…
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