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Tia Oso writes:
I Am the Black Woman Who Interrupted the Netroots Presidential Town Hall, and This Is Why.
I did this to focus the attention of the nation's largest gathering of progressive leaders and presidential hopefuls on the death of Sandra Bland and other black women killed while in police custody, because the most important and urgent issue of our day is structural violence and systemic racism that is oppressing and killing black women, men and children. This is an emergency. [...]
Saturday's action was powerful. Black organizers claimed our rightful place at the front of the progressive movement. Allies from Latino, Asian, LGBT and other communities stood in solidarity with us as we called the names of black women killed in police custody, expressed our heartbreaking requests to the community should we ourselves die in police custody and looked on as respected and revered progressive leaders were woefully unable to answer our reasonable question as to how they will lead America to a brighter future.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2006—Matthews, Buchanan Eviscerate Neocons And Warmongering On The Right:
I have a love-hate relationship with Chris Matthews. OK, it's mostly a hate relationship, in that I hate his documented record of being so misleading and so fundamentally wrong on so many issues.
But, I must give credit where credit is due. In those rare occasions where Matthews gets it right, he hits it out of the ballpark.
As Hunter pointed out, Newt Gingrich, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Kristol, Rich Lowry, and Rush Limbaugh are among a disturbing number of conservatives who are calling for an all-out world war.
These conservatives have an insatiable appetite for conflict and a maniacal desire to try all 31 flavors war. They want to use events in the Mideast as an excuse to invade any country whose citizens dare to call God "Allah." But their calls for a wider war are not the result of some warped idea that the sound of rockets pounding in neighborhoods will lull the hate to sleep. Nope. They. Just. Want. War.
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