Thanks for the article. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Melania may have done her research and looked for a FLOTUS she could “role model.” IMO, she made the correct choice! Long story short, messages which are repeated over and over...dig themselves DEEPER into our brains. In her public pronouncements,…

This is familiar territory. Here’s how others have viewed the separation.

In my opinion, in a nation formally dedicated to the proposition that we are ALL created equal and endowed with inalienable rights...a nation were we pledge that ours is a democratic republic with liberty and justice for ALL...this is a TRAVESTY! In such a nation, all levels of government have a moral responsibility…

I recommend a recent interview between George Lakoff and Robert Reich. Lakoff, the cognitive scientist who has written extensively in message framing, is questioned about how ALL our brains perceive messages. Conservatives have a moral code which becomes their “worldview” through which they see the world.

Clio — I was disturbed because of your word choice in the story. It wasn’t the content or direction of the article, but the use of the term “entitlement.” It is a word that’s been “mainstreamed” by conservative think tanks and AM talk radio. Growing up in the 50s, 60s, and 70s the term of art was “our social safety…

Reverend Lee is a courageous man who spoke the truth and was sent packing because of it. He is basically repeating the message of the 1968 Presidential Report on Civil Disturbances. He is a white man speaking to other Caucasians about institutional racism…a direct insult to our nation’s founding credo…that we are ALL…

“Negroes are four million strong and a greater proportion of them [Negroes] labor with their hands than can be counted from the same number of people on earth. Can we afford to reject their proffered cooperation and make them enemies? By committing such an act of folly we would inflict greater injury upon the cause of…

The Ds need to rally around deeply-held and widely-felt values. Only by doing that can “persuadables” even hear what they are saying. Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech did that VERY well.

Carlos — You make an interesting point. You’re far from the first to make that observation. The textile industry paid well when it was in the northeast. It was lured south by cheaper wages. Then it left the U.S. lured by cheaper wages. Why? The maximization of short-term profits.

Thanks for sharing. I believe the task is to win the hearts and minds of the persuadables in the electorate. That is, IMO, what Dr. King’s speech did at the 1963 march for Jobs and Freedom.

We are all entitled to our idea about how to expose and defeat racism. Tina seems to be on the same page as the Southern Poverty Law Center! https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide#an alternative

So Tina is in very respectable company!

I am an old white guy. I was 21 and living in Detroit in 1967. In response to civil unrest, the 1968 the Kerner Commission Report came out. It clearly placed the onus of institutional racism on the shoulders of those white folks who own and control the “opportunity dispensing mechanisms” in our society. The task…

Possibly one of the most important “discoveries” in politics is people vote their “emotions” rather than their “economic self-interest.” Richard Wirthlin discovered this and created “values voters” or “Reagan Democrats.” Tom Frank went on about it in his “What’s the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the…