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“A man’s rights rests in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” (Frederick Douglass)
After Charles Cotton, a Houston attorney and National Rifle Association board member, blamed the slain pastor of Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for the massacre that occurred at the church on June 17, 2015, a tornado of outrage engulfed his comments before he had time to delete them.
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“Some blacks would rather be shot by their enemies than shoot their enemies.”
Sometimes, the relationship between the old and the new is like a bad marriage. The old inside the marriage want to get out; the new outside the marriage want to get in. Yet, the new may not grasp that the marriage is bad for them too.
Read MoreEverything has an opposite: Every mountain has a valley; every knife spurns a fork; every night turns to day.
Thanksgiving Day has its opposite too—the National Day of Mourning, which honors native ancestors and the struggles of native peoples. The National Day of Mourning began in 1970 when Wamsutta (Frank B.) James, an Aquinnah Wampanoag elder, gave a speech near the Pilgrim’s first meeting house in Massachusetts.
Read MoreWith the morals of a sewer, Donald Trump has shown he is less qualified to be president, and more like a newborn trying to change his own diapers, than an Australia swamp rat is at becoming an Uber driver.
Read MoreWhen Hina said “Black people look so great and stylish,” her black ancestors would have praised her for her acceptance and love of black culture. But Hina is not black: She is Japanese, a Japanese b-girl. And because the praise comes from a foreign source, it makes the compliment more glorious than the truth it proclaims.
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