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I disagree strongly with this, and not just because enslaved Africans weren’t immigrants. I digress. This is a bad take. Everyone’s family has people who have gotten sick, yes. The experience that we all have in this health care system after we get sick, though, is not the same.
Hearing a politician’s story may bore some folks, but we remove the relevance of personal experience from policy, we boost arguments against diversity in several arenas, including elected offices. Anyone can make policy for everyone. But we’ve seen where lived experience matters.
There are several politicians who grandstand, using their personal stories to promote their own legends rather than their policies. However, there are plenty who have stories worth telling, stories that inform us about their policy priorities and strategies. That’s worth knowing.
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August 5th marked five years since a cop killed John Crawford III. He was just holding a BB gun inside a Walmart. This guy wore body armor and carried a loaded rifle and handgun into a Walmart, days after El Paso. His “test” of his rights was successful. apne.ws/ypNh8MH
I don’t hope for the kind of “equality” that see suspects of all races, white terrorists and black shoppers minding their business, killed equally and at the same rates. But it is an indication of who not only has certain rights in America, but gets to survive certain scenarios.
It is impossible to see these mass shootings and their aftermath, as well as the widespread gun culture in America, as disconnected to the disproportionate police brutality and violence that African Americans and other people of color suffer in this country.
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Six months ahead of the Iowa caucuses, @mviser finds voters with real concerns about the man leading the nationwide Democratic polls. Their quotes about @JoeBiden are critical, but reflect what we all have been able to witness for ourselves thus far. wapo.st/2KpUPIe
“Gee, it was nice he was vice president. However, he is not vice president now, and if he wants to stand out, he has to do it soon, on his own two feet,” said one retired teacher, who added: “I want to know what he thinks, not what he did with Obama. That’s why I’m here.”
Later, @mviser observed the same retired teacher as she watched the former Vice President speak in Iowa. “But Biden’s appearance that evening evidently did not convince her: Halfway through, she took out her phone and began playing a card game.”
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@kathleenparker This is an incredibly irresponsible thing to tweet, and I’ll explain why.
@kathleenparker One, Ms. Parker, you seem desperate to avoid the obvious. What Bakari is talking about has already been investigated, ad nauseous. You are looking for a correlation behind the whiteness of the shooters that has nothing to do with racism for a reason that only you can explain.
@kathleenparker Two, you infer that Bakari’s question is racist. What is wrong with you? He isn’t branding every white person with the stain of nationalism and terrorism. He is asking us to take seriously a national security crisis that has gone ignored for too long. And that is your response?
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