Tag: civil rights
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Muhammad Ali’s Dream
It is a strange process that we put all our heroes and heroines through. First, we seen them as dangerous and revile them. Then, in death, we (even their former antagonists and adversaries) adopt them and turn them into everything we wished the hero to be, everything we could not make them be when alive.…
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Learnin’
What I’m Learning (Slowly) From Obama By Jim Sleeper, TPMCafé, November 11, 2008 It’s well known by now that Barack Obama learns from his mistakes and tries hard not to make them twice. So can those of us who supported him. Even here on what we fancy is the right side of history, we can…
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The Civil-Rights Issue of Our Time
While much of the country is rightly focused on the presidential election, there’s no contest more important to me this year than an initiative on the ballot in California. If it passes with a simple majority, Proposition 8 will take away the fundamental right to marry for same-sex couples in that state. The measure has…
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“Respect” and other words
There’s this new political advertisement out from the McCain-Palin presidential campaign that again tries to stoke the anger of those Hillary Clinton supporters, you know, “white,” “working-class” and “women” voters still mad at Sen. Barack Obama about the alleged disrespectful treatment of Mrs. Clinton during the primaries. In the McCain campaign’s calculation, Gov. Sarah Palin…
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. . . considering the import of history
King’s “Dream” speech I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great…
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Feat of Clay
(Photo by Lei Yixin) A clay model of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial statue that is proposed for the Mall. Related article . . . Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Don’t Pass The Ammunition; Mayor holds off on new bullets
March 5, 1997 by BOB LIFF, MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JOHN MARZULLI, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani put the brakes on the police plan to arm cops with controversial hollow-point bullets yesterday — demanding to see studies on the expanding rounds before approving the change. Giuliani summoned Police Commissioner Howard Safir and his top…