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My Comment on: Bigger Than Immigration | NYTimes
NOV. 23, 2014
Don’t let yourself get lost in the weeds. Don’t allow yourself to believe that opposition to President Obama’s executive actions on immigration is only about that issue, the president’s tactics, or his lack of obsequiousness to his detractors.
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Immigration Reform Is a Black Thing, Too – The Root
Your Take: Pitting black issues vs. immigrant issues is a false dichotomy.
BY: OPAL TOMETI
Posted: Nov. 23 2014
The administrative relief measures that President Barack Obama announced Thursday will benefit an estimated four million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. This long awaited measure came several months after the president promised to take executive action in the absence of any cooperation by an obstructionist Congress to pass legislation.
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@MichaelEDyson to #Giuliani: It’s ‘the defense mechanism of #whitesupremacy in your mind’
Professor Michael Eric Dyson was in rare form today and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani got his just desserts, in the most spectacular way. Watch:
http://youtu.be/jV0IdJcBIao
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Postscript to my comment on: Lori Tharps: The Case for Black With a Capital B
November 19, 2014
PHILADELPHIA — I WAS sitting in my office at Temple University when I overheard an exchange between a colleague and his student. The student had come to see her professor to go over a paper, and he was patiently explaining that the abundance of grammatical mistakes detracted from her compelling content. I sympathized with my colleague as he pointed out error after error. Until he came to this one.
“Why did you capitalize black and white people?” he asked. “I thought I’d seen it written that way before,” the girl stammered. “Come on,” he said. “Why would you capitalize black or white?”
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How Much Does #Immigration Increase Poverty? Less than Robert Samuelson Thinks it Does
Jared Bernstein
November 17, 2014
November 17, 2014
It is a common mistake to overestimate the contribution of immigration to the increase in poverty. Today’s purveyor of this erroneous association is the WaPo’s Robert Samuelson, who writes in the context of a discussion about immigration reform:
Poll: Public Has ‘Pulled Back’ From Dems On The Economy
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
A new poll has some disturbing news for Democrats: the country defers to Republicans rather than Democrats when it comes to the economy. Continue reading Poll: Public Has ‘Pulled Back’ From Dems On The Economy
Scarborough, McCaskill: Darren Wilson getting his life back
Six Words: ‘With Kids, I’m Dad. Alone, Thug’: NPR | #BlackLivesMatter
November 17, 2014
Marc Quarles, his wife, Claudia Paul, and their children, Joshua and Danielle, live in an affluent, predominantly white neighborhood in California. Quarles says his neighbors treat him differently when his children aren’t around.
Continue reading Six Words: ‘With Kids, I’m Dad. Alone, Thug’: NPR | #BlackLivesMatter
.@DailyKos: New DSCC chair Jon Tester doesn’t like or think like his party…
By Kos
November 14, 2014
Montana Sen. Jon Tester is a testament to the pragmatism that infuses the netroots—a conservative Democrat who was eminently electable in light-Red Montana. Today, however, he was chosen for a task broader than his corner of America—heading up the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Senate Democrats are looking at a fantastic 2016—with presidential-year turnout demographics and a map that might put 10 or more Republican seats in play. Yet the extent of our gains will depend in huge part on our ability to turn out our base, and nothing in Tester’s history suggests he has what it takes to inspire that broader participation. Continue reading .@DailyKos: New DSCC chair Jon Tester doesn’t like or think like his party…