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(9,897 posts)liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)This is powerful and every American needs to watch it and hopefully think about it, and its going to be painful.
handmade34
(22,759 posts)malaise
(269,260 posts)jaxexpat
(6,870 posts)Eloquence so early on a Sunday morning is welcome.
democrank
(11,112 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)replay until it soaks thoroughly into our hearts and minds.........
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)Thoughtful, articulate, compassionate, scholarly, decent. He is all of these things and more. America needs more people like him in positions of power. President Stephenson sounds pretty good to me.
oasis
(49,455 posts)gets us a step closer.
ananda
(28,892 posts)Thank you
Joinfortmill
(14,495 posts)marble falls
(57,427 posts)it only evolved." Prisons are the new plantations. Separate but equal has turned into just separate with not even the pretense of equal, not even going through the cover of "equal".
We've taken away a peoples voice and then act surprised when they scream.
How many Brian Stevensons have we lost????
Fla Dem
(23,852 posts)lark
(23,186 posts)Also required, a kleenex or rag to wipe your tears of sadness for the racist cruelty of our country.
malaise
(269,260 posts)Her brother was studying medicine at the same university and moved to McGill in Canada.
And a judge and prosecutor laugh at the thought that an African-American lawyer is in their court 100 fucking years later. I am beyond disgusted. I am just fed up.
lark
(23,186 posts)I worked for one of the largest medical management co. is America that supports over 500 UF physicians and our president was AA and our VP was from Pakistan and the VP of Ob/Gyn was Lebanese. When I worked for AT&T in the 80's the president of my division was AA, this is not weird or uncommon. Why do some people refuse to see what's right in front of them and instead still rely on the bigoted tropes they absorbed from their equally hate filled parents? I thought things were getting better, naive sad me.
drumpf ruins everything he touches and he's doing everything possible to inflame a race war and to make the bigots feel free to act out in violent ways. A race war makes it easier to declare martial law and stop the election and he intends to use this along with raging CV to cancel the election once it's underway.
malaise
(269,260 posts)That simple
lark
(23,186 posts)brer cat
(24,640 posts)mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)As head of the Equal Justice Initiatve..a very worthy cause if you have some extra cash.
Recommend the book, The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton. Stevenson is a prominent figure.
c-rational
(2,600 posts)spanone
(135,921 posts)K&R
Wounded Bear
(58,766 posts)to the point where it is more difficult to research information about black history and people than white.
Trump has made nothing better, and virtually everything worse.
panfluteman
(2,075 posts)1) Trump first made a name for himself in the political arena with his birtherism against Barack Obama, our first black president.
2) The Russians were able to hack our elections and, by swinging just a few thousand critical votes in three different battleground states, steal the election for Donald Trump. This would have been impossible if we had not had the Electoral College, because Hillary won the national popular vote, which is how every other country elects their president, by almost three million votes nationwide, which would have been impossible to track, hack and steal.
3) The main reason for the installation of the Electoral College at the founding of our Republic was to entice southern slave holding states to join the union by instituting an electoral system that would give white slave owners in the southern states a stronger political voice and stronger political representation against the northern states, which had the largest cities and population centers at the time.
4) And so, the current political crisis we are in is entirely the result of the dark, morbid legacy of slavery and racism in the United States, which includes, last but not least, the Electoral College. The Electoral College, although originally a legacy of racism and slavery, is now, in this modern age of cybertechnology - and cybercriminality - also a grave national security threat, because it enables or facilitates the easy theft of our presidential elections by adversarial foreign powers and other bad faith actors. What the Russians accomplished in 2016 will not go unnoticed, or un-emulated, by other rogue states and bad faith actors.
5) No other reform of our electoral system would do so much, and go as far as, the abolition of the Electoral College. Not only does the Electoral College encourage and enable the hacking of our presidential elections by adversarial foreign powers, as was seen in 2016, but it also encourages and enables a lot of electoral corruption and shenanigans at the state level, namely gerrymandering, voter ID laws, vote purging, voting restriction, and the like. It's high time to cast off this outdated relic of our dark, racist past.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)here..
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,859 posts)Judges can be very unfair.
I was sitting in a courtroom years ago, awaiting my turn over a speeding violation, and saw another guy with his lawyer (both white) for a more serious offense.
The judge obviously HATED that lawyer for some reason. He kept cutting him off as the lawyer repeatedly apologized and tried to resume. Then the judge suddenly ruled that the lawyer's client was getting the maximum sentence, and that was it. The guy looked at his lawyer like, "What the hell did you do to me?!"
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,490 posts)Ron Green
(9,823 posts)you must do so. Its Bryan Stevensons project.