Yes, most children are lucky that their parents were born before them, that’s a great point.
I do love that the guy who’s repeatedly attacking the children of a civil rights icon and screaming about CRT from his campaign Twitter account in a desperate plea for votes calling *them* “race profiteers”
The King children know that their father anticipated many of the same issues called out by CRT … and that work made many people denounce him divisive and made him quite unpopular.

He had a 75 percent disapproval rating the year he died.

smithsonianmag.com/history/why-ma…
.@JoshMandelOhio calls MLK's daughters "race profiteers" and insists they're nothing like MLK ... who was himself denounced as a "race profiteer" by people like Josh Mandel.

Here's Walter Trohan of the Chicago Tribune in April 1967, a year before King's assassination.

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26 Sep
I didn’t want to talk about Sarge’s accident until we got him home, but since so many have asked, here it is.
And let me say up front that the few times I’ve told this story to someone in person, they invariably gasp and pull a hand to their mouth.

So you might want to skip it, even though you know he’s pulled through.
So.

On Wednesday afternoon, our dog sitter was driving him home and — for some reason — Sarge jumped out of the window.

His leash got caught as he did, though, and as a result … he was dragged behind the fast-moving car for a decent stretch.
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Sarge was in a pretty bad accident today.

Looks like he’ll make it but several days in the animal hospital ahead followed by a couple months of recovery. Ugh.

Pupper prayers appreciated.
Thanks so much for all the kind words.

Avoided the worst. No broken bones, but lots of cuts and scrapes. Ugh.

The doctors and staff at Princeton Animal Hospital are pretty damn amazing people, so a very special thanks to them and the Animal Control guys who got him there.
Unbelievable.

It seems Sarge isn't out of the woods just yet, so thanks so much for the kind thoughts and prayers.

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Amazing afternoon of football and we haven’t even gotten to the best part.
Welcome back @Mathieu_Era
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16 Sep
What if I told you this speech was not, in fact, praising Jefferson Davis but condemning the culture that held this "cadaverous figure" up as some kind of hero?
I mean, this is the second page. Seems *sort* of obvious what DuBois thinks of Davis here.
"Hey, this guy says Jefferson Davis might have been evil but he wasn't 'WHOLLY EVIL'! Take that, libs!"
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9 Sep
On Tuesday, I told my students that one benefit of studying history is that you can not just understand the historical analogies that fill our public discourse but you can also determine who's butchering the comparisons.

Anyway, I think I need to Irish up this coffee.
I mean ... Nope. Jesus Christ, no. No? Completely wrong.
We already had "medical Jim Crow" in this country and it looked nothing like this and, no, this is not remotely like segregation, and Jesus Tapdancing Christ, please read a book by someone who's never been on Tucker Carlson's show.
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1 Sep
(whispers into the void) please stop telling undergrads who are applying to grad school to email prospective advisers and ask for a Zoom meeting before they've even applied, please, I'm begging you, this helps no one in the process
Look, I get the instinct behind it, but I must've gotten close to a hundred emails last fall -- one Monday in October, I got four -- with a few dozen asking for Zoom chats (several straight up asking *when* we would chat) and ... I just can't do it. Wish I could, but I can't.
Even if I could do these calls, they're not as important as the people pushing them believe.

We make admits as a field (20th c US), so I'm one of 9-12 profs making the decision. Even if I have my heart set on someone, I'm one voice on the jury.

And we admit maybe 2-3 a year?
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