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.
.@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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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.
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?
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.
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.
(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.