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Rahm Emanuel helped hide the tape of Laquan McDonald’s murder for more than a year. How much did that cost? Aside from his career as mayor of Chicago, that is?
Last year alone, Chicago taxpayers paid out more than $85 million to settle police misconduct lawsuits and an additional $28 million to outside lawyers to defend these cases. More than half a billion in just eight years. How about that cost, @RahmEmanuel? chicagoreporter.com/chicago-spent-…
That @RahmEmanuel wants Trump to stay out of the Jussie mess is even richer, considering that he is practically begging him to make it an issue by being hysterical about it.
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Jamil Smith
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Per a @MorningConsult poll, nearly half of the voting public views Christian nationalism as an important or critical threat to vital U.S. interests within the next 10 years. Nearly half of Republicans and white evangelicals, on the other hand, shrug at it. morningconsult.com/2019/04/02/rou…
Christian nationalism (47 percent) may not be considered as much of a threat as white nationalism (64 percent) to those polled. But sociologist Andrew Whitehead notes that the former is “related to conceptions about citizenship and American identity that are related to race.”
“Although Whitehead noted there is no raw data connecting white nationalism to Christian nationalism, he said the latter allows many whites who take up its cause to express anti-black prejudice, as well as other right-wing ideologies, without resorting to ‘radicalized language.’”
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Jamil Smith
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Have we heard one word from Trump’s administration about this? Certainly nothing about any national emergency. (@govkristinoem declared a statewide one on March 15.) Remember, it isn’t about whether this is unsurprising. He remains @POTUS—and his silence is an abdication of duty.
This @MitchKSmith report on the flooding of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is now a week old. There is surely updated information in local reports, but this gives you a baseline on the ongoing devastation. nyti.ms/2CCazDD
I am just now learning about Pine Ridge, and am lamenting that it took me this long to pay attention to its plight. I can only speak for myself in this regard, and quite often, people are suffering at epic proportions as I traffic in relative triviality. I’ll strive to do better.
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Jamil Smith
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Says @PeteButtigieg in this interview, coastal folks “have trouble believing that Trump voters actually exist” and that those voters are “just human beings making choices on their situations, sometimes their biases and we need to talk through them.” Sigh. kqed.org/news/11729874/…
A few things on those @PeteButtigieg remarks. One, a lot of us “coastal elites” are Midwesterners like him. We know all too well that Trump voters exist. And more of them live out here than he seems to realize. America doesn’t fit so snugly into a soundbite as he might like.
Two, @PeteButtigieg attempts to exchange one stereotype for another. This, of course, is impossible; he manages to mischaracterize Trump voters, as well, letting them off the hook for putting in place the most dangerously ignorant chief executive this nation has maybe ever seen.
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"In 2016, Trump, on the second ballot, would have taken most of the Libertarian votes and the McMullin third party votes in Utah, and Clinton would have taken most of the Greens . . .

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Well, Rahm is right. Obama said the same thing to blacks when he was running for president. Only difference Obama was liked. Rahm isn't. Rahm Emanuel under increasing fire for linking Chicago violence and morals in minority neighborhoods fxn.ws/2MTrODn #FoxNews
The liberal social culture of the left has caused the lack of morals in many black households. History will show blacks are in general conservatives but liberal programs creating dependency and taking away pride has killed it. #WalkAway
Blacks would do so much better if they #WalkAway from the Democratic plantation of oppression and dependency.
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