Can we not do this “people who’ve never done politics running for President” thing? Like, I love me some Michelle, but no she would not be a good President and no she isn’t going to run. She’s doing a great job where she’s at  and we don’t need more celebrities running for the executive office, we need people that are…

This may be an unfashionable thing to admit here, but in the past year and a half I’ve lost lifelong black AND white friends. Around the summer of 2020 many of them became outspokenly condemnatory of the Founding Fathers and America and we couldn’t reconcile our differences.

Peoples’ livelihoods are built into their businesses.  Destroying these businesses destroys peoples’ lives.  It’s not a minor thing.

“in front of his children.” is one way to put it. He had a warrant for sexual assault and a restraining order against him when he showed up at his girlfriend’s house. He was about to drive off with the kids in the car and he was armed with a knife. Seven shots might not be the right number, but it seems pretty clear…

The protests went on for several nights in response to white Kenosha officer Rusten Sheskey shooting Jacob Blake, who is Black, seven times in the back, in front of his children, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Graveley decided not to criminally charge Sheskey in October.

In studies done of blood levels, the peak levels in children of Flint during the crisis were only 10-20% as high as they were a decade earlier (that is 80-90% lower,) a level that had been decreasing for decades and peaked, during the crisis, at about 50% higher than a few years before. The Flint water lead levels…

Walker is a successful Black man. He’s happy, productive and a family man.

Sounds like a cool trip for a freelancer. But yelling at strangers on the internet over a bowl of soup is dumb. 

Glad to see The Root supporting fellow brothers who are successful, despite The White Man spending every waking minute making sure black people are held down forever and never allowed to have shit.

There was much misinformation at the beginning of the pandemic,

I totally agree. It’s going to be litigated no matter what he does, so he should just do it and get the lawyers rolling. But it’s not cancellation and he never promised anything close to cancellation — and the author made it sound like he had promised that. I’m sorry to say that if you really wanted cancellation, you…

This is the best path forward. If the Democrats actually proposed a solution like this, I would be all for it. Like you said, erasing the debt isn’t going to solve the root of the problem and it isn’t fair to people who did pay off their loans. I also believe that the government needs to strictly monitor and limit the…

That’s only true if the taxpayer performs work in exchange for student loan forgiveness (and only to the extent such work performed). Otherwise, the forgiven loan balance is includible in gross income under Section 108(f)(1) and 61(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. So, it really depends on how the loan forgiveness is…

The question, it seems to me, is whether the good that would come from forgiving student loans is sufficiently positive as to make it worth doing relative to the cost. 

Cancellation of indebtedness is taxable income to the student, so if the Administration is cancelling all student loans, they should also address its tax implications. 

Apparently, that promise of debt forgiveness was good enough to get elected, but not good enough to go through with.

Cancelling federal student loan debt does have support, but not cancelling all student loan debt. If you remove the people who support cancellation for those in need you only have about a quarter of the polling sample supporting the idea to cancel all debt. I’m all for forgiving the federal loans based on means…

This is embarrassing to all of us.

Just had dinner, put the food away, washed the dishes, and cleaned the kitchen.