The Koch Foundation is often praised for its higher-ed funding, but the money is going to some radical professors.

The co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement talked to The Nation about her initiative to engage skeptics and build political power among black communities.

Tulsa County Oklahoma offi­cials set­tled a civ­il rights law­suit on Friday when it agreed to pay the estate of Eric Harris $6 mil­lion after he was shot and killed in 2015 by a man so rich, coun­ty offi­cials allowed him to lit­er­al­ly play a game of cops and robbers.

The case made nation­al head­lines when Tulsa County offi­cers invit­ed 73-year-old Reserve Deputy Robert Bates along for a gun sting meant to ensnare Harris. Harris was chased down and sub­dued by offi­cers when Bates, a wealthy insur­ance exec­u­tive with an affin­i­ty for law enforce­ment, shot Harris in the armpit. Bates claimed that he mis­took his gun for his Taser, but was sen­tenced to four years in prison for sec­ond-degree manslaughter.

Bates was dep­u­tized as a reserve offi­cer by his a fish­ing part­ner and bene­fac­tor, Tulsa County Sherrif Stanley Glanz. Gates had donat­ed vehi­cles and equip­ment items to the Sherrif’s Department and gave mon­ey to Glanz’s polit­i­cal cam­paigns, serv­ing as the cam­paign man­ag­er dur­ing Glanz’s 2012 run for Sherrif.

The Harris fam­i­ly law­suit sued Bates, Glanz, and four oth­er offi­cers for exces­sive force and civ­il rights vio­la­tions. The civ­il suit alleged Glanz of “turned a blind eye to these dan­gers … to allow his friend and finan­cial bene­fac­tor to ‘play cop’ in the streets of Tulsa County.” It also charges that Bates was improp­er­ly trained.

After the Harris shoot­ing, an inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tion found records that showed Bates’ train­ing records were fal­si­fied and that the County pres­sured inves­ti­ga­tors to deem the use of force “jus­ti­fi­able.”

The $6 mil­lion set­tle­ment clos­es the civ­il case and bars the Harris estate from fil­ing indi­vid­ual suits against the defen­dants in the case. The mon­ey will be paid out over three years, bring­ing the total cost of Bates’ cop cos­play to $6.6 mil­lion for the cit­i­zens of Tulsa County, accord­ing to the Tulsa World.

“It’s in the best inter­est of all par­ties involved to resolve these claims at this time,” Tulsa County Sherrif Vic Regalado said. “I believe this deci­sion will allow the process of heal­ing to con­tin­ue for the Harris fam­i­ly, the cit­i­zens of Tulsa County and the hard-work­ing men and women of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office.”

Glanz even­tu­al­ly resigned his office after he was charged with mis­de­meanor crimes in a sub­se­quent investigation.

Robert Bates served 497 days of his four-year sen­tence and was released in 2016.

Eric Harris is still dead. https://​www​.the​root​.com/​t​u​l​s​a​-​c​o​u​n​t​y​-​a​g​r​e​e​s​-​t​o​-​p​a​y​-​6​-​m​i​l​l​i​o​n​-​f​o​r​-​e​r​i​c​-​h​a​r​r​i​s​-​e​-​1​8​2​3​6​6​9​726

On March 1^st, 2018 Michelle Alexander gave a Keynote Lecture at Marist College Nelly Goletti Theatre in Poughkeepsie New York, on the sub­ject of mass incar­cer­a­tion of peo­ple of col­or in the United States.
The Lecture was mod­er­at­ed by Dr. Tia Sheree Gaynor Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Dr. Joycelyn Smith-Lee Assistant Professor, of Psychology both African-Americans.

I had the priv­i­lege of attend­ing the lec­ture with my wife Cheryl and meet­ing Michelle Alexander a woman whose work I have admired. It was inter­est­ing to hear Ms. Alexander speak to her fears at the prospect of not being tak­en seri­ous­ly in her advo­ca­cy. Michelle Alexander is a writer, civ­il rights advo­cate, and a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor at Union Theological Seminary.
She is best known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
Ms. Alexander spoke to her mis­giv­ings at the start of her social activism around the time then Illinois Senator Barack Obama was run­ning to be President of the United States and the atten­dant feel­ing of eupho­ria which abound­ed at the time, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the African-American community.
Professor Alexander mused that before Obama was elect­ed she thought to her­self that if Obama was elect­ed no one would lis­ten to her grip­ing about the bro­ken racial sys­tem in America.
She spoke about how dif­fi­cult it was to get any­one to lis­ten to her when she first broached the subject.

Ms. Alexander talked about the begin­ning of her social activism at ACLU, there as an Attorney, she rep­re­sent­ed vic­tims of racial bias. It is at this junc­ture of her life she revealed, that she had an awakening.
She talked about whilst there she was con­stant­ly suing Police Departments in the State of California in the late 1990s for racial pro­fil­ing or (DWB) dri­ving while black a term which was not well known at the time.
DWB was said to be a fig­ment of peo­ple’s imag­i­na­tion accord­ing to Police and their sup­port­ers she quipped.

According to her, a hot­line was set up so that vic­tims of police abuse could report their encoun­ters. The sys­tem crashed as a result of the vol­ume of calls.
One young black man had gone to great lengths to doc­u­ment the mul­ti­ple times he was stopped by police, searched, roughed-up, made to lie spread-eagled on the side­walk, and oth­er­wise abused. His doc­u­men­ta­tion includ­ing date and time, badge num­bers of the offices involved in stacks and stacks of paper against the Oakland Police. Ms. Aleaxnder spoke to her sense of excite­ment at the prospect of rep­re­sent­ing this par­tic­u­lar young man.
And then he revealed that he was a felon.

She con­tem­plat­ed how the nar­ra­tive would be framed, how the police and media would frame the talk­ing points around the vig­i­lance of the police doing their jobs effec­tive­ly by keep­ing tabs on a con­vict­ed drug felon.
Who would care about her advo­ca­cy on this issue? The young man was enraged when she told him that she could not rep­re­sent him.

“I was framed they plant­ed drugs on me I was forced to take a plea despite my inno­cence or risk going to prison for years”.“You are no dif­fer­ent than the police he accused”, he tore up the sheets of detailed data he had doc­u­ment­ed and stormed out.
According to Ms. Alexander sev­en months lat­er a media report broke a news sto­ry nam­ing the very same offi­cer as hav­ing plant­ed drugs on inno­cent young black and brown men. Michelle Alexander spoke at length on the state of jus­tice in America, argu­ing that the Portugees mod­el works bet­ter than the one we have here at home.
Present at the lec­ture were indi­vid­u­als who did seri­ous prison time as a result of America’s war on drugs and are now pick­ing up the pieces of their lives in an effort to move on.
Ms. Alexander bemoaned the way the crack epi­dem­ic was viewed as a pun­ish­ment of crim­i­nals unwor­thy of empa­thy while the opi­oid epi­dem­ic is now viewed as a pub­lic health issue. The dif­fer­ence of course between the two being race.

After the lec­ture, Ms. Alexander signed copies of her book the new Jim crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, for those who brought their copies of her 2010 book to the lec­ture as well as for those who pur­chased copies of her book in the hallway.
My wife and I stood in the long snaking line for what seemed an eter­ni­ty before we final­ly got to her. She smiled and chat­ted with us as she did with every­one else. She was extreme­ly gra­cious with her time even though it was well into the night.

Assessment 50 years after Kerner Commission points to child pover­ty and school seg­re­ga­tion, along with embold­ened white supremacists

Civil rights gains of the past half-cen­tu­ry have stalled or in some areas gone into reverse, accord­ing to a report mark­ing the 50^th anniver­sary of the land­mark Kerner Commission.

Child pover­ty has increased, schools have become reseg­re­gat­ed and white suprema­cists are becom­ing embold­ened and more vio­lent, the study says.

“Don’t let any­body tell you that the prob­lem is Donald Trump,” the Rev William Barber, a promi­nent North Carolina pas­tor, told a con­fer­ence launch­ing the 469-page report in Washington on Tuesday. “Long before Trump mas­tered a mod­ern-day ver­sion of the con of the south­ern strat­e­gy, he had an audi­ence that had been cul­ti­vat­ed for 50 years.”

President Lyndon Johnson formed the orig­i­nal 11-mem­ber Kerner Commission as Detroit was engulfed in a race riot in 1967. The commission’s report con­clud­ed: “Our nation is mov­ing toward two soci­eties, one black, one white – sep­a­rate and unequal.”

Johnson’s major pol­i­cy ini­tia­tives, the “great soci­ety” and “war on pover­ty”, had a pos­i­tive impact, accord­ing to the new report, Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report. The African American achieve­ment gap in read­ing decreased by half dur­ing the ear­ly 1970s and ear­ly 1980s.

The report adds, how­ev­er, that with the elim­i­na­tion of major fed­er­al pro­grammes under Ronald Reagan dur­ing the 1980s, the achieve­ment gap in read­ing grew once again and is now 30% big­ger than it was 30 years ago.

Fred Harris, the last sur­viv­ing mem­ber of the Kerner Commission, told Tuesday’s con­fer­ence at George Washington University: “We made progress on vir­tu­al­ly every aspect of race and pover­ty for near­ly a decade after the Kerner report and then that progress slowed, then stopped and in many ways was reversed, so that today racial and eth­nic dis­crim­i­na­tion is again wors­en­ing. We are reseg­re­gat­ing our cities and our schools, con­demn­ing mil­lions of kids to infe­ri­or edu­ca­tion and tak­ing away their real pos­si­bil­i­ty of get­ting out of poverty.”

Harris, a for­mer Democratic sen­a­tor from Oklahoma and co-edi­tor of the new report, added: “There are mil­lions more poor peo­ple today than there were then. There’s greater child pover­ty; poverty’s hard­er to get out of. More poor peo­ple are in deep pover­ty than was true 50 years ago and income inequal­i­ty is worse now and worsening.”

The report says the per­cent­age of American chil­dren liv­ing in pover­ty increased from 15.6% in 1968 to 21% in 2017. The per­cent­age of peo­ple liv­ing in deep or extreme pover­ty – defined as less than half the pover­ty thresh­old – has also gone up since 1975.

After a dra­mat­ic improve­ment in racial inte­gra­tion in edu­ca­tion, espe­cial­ly in the south, court orders and hous­ing pat­terns have led to a reseg­re­ga­tion of pub­lic schools. In 1988, about 44% of black stu­dents went to major­i­ty white schools nation­al­ly; only 20% of black stu­dents do so today.

Three decades after the Fair Housing Act of 1968, black home­own­er­ship rose by almost 6%, but those gains were wiped out from 2000 to 2015, the report con­tin­ues. It blames the decline on the dis­pro­por­tion­ate effect that the sub­prime mort­gage lend­ing cri­sis had on African American families.

Mass incar­cer­a­tion has increased the prison pop­u­la­tion from about 200,000 at the time of the Kerner Commission to about 1.4 mil­lion today, it also notes. African American men are near­ly six times as like­ly to be incar­cer­at­ed as white men.

Catherine Lhamon, chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, told the audi­ence: “We have seen oth­er times since the Kerner Commission when pres­i­den­tial admin­is­tra­tions and Congress test­ed our ideals. Speaking for myself, I think of the Reagan admin­is­tra­tion as the nadir for civ­il rights before now but what wor­ries me is this Trump admin­is­tra­tion is tak­ing a page from the Reagan play­book and con­sol­i­dat­ing it. That scares me, frankly, and that is what I think needs to dri­ve all of us for a mean­ing­ful call to action.

“This admin­is­tra­tion works to desta­bi­lize the fed­er­al judi­cia­ry, appoint­ing judges who are affir­ma­tive­ly opposed to fed­er­al civ­il rights enforce­ment and to fed­er­al civ­il rights them­selves. This admin­is­tra­tion issues speech after speech and tweet after tweet chal­leng­ing equi­ty prin­ci­ples and announc­ing that the admin­is­tra­tion will not enforce them. This admin­is­tra­tion gen­er­ates dan­ger­ous pol­i­cy and reg­u­la­to­ry lim­i­ta­tions on our rights.”

In his address, broad­cast via video link, Barber high­light­ed the impor­tance of vot­er sup­pres­sion in states that can make all the dif­fer­ence in elec­tions. “We have less vot­ing rights today than we had on August 6, 1965, when the Voting Rights Act was passed,” said Barber, pres­i­dent of Repairers of the Breach, a reli­gious and social jus­tice not-for-prof­it group.

“This, my friend, is the elec­tion hack­ing no one wants to talk about because it would force us to deal with sys­temic racism in America, and study after study shows us that the polit­i­cal land­scape would look very dif­fer­ent with­out vot­er suppression.”
Se more @ https://​www​.the​guardian​.com/​u​s​-​n​e​w​s​/​2​0​1​8​/​f​e​b​/​2​7​/​u​s​-​c​i​v​i​l​-​r​i​g​h​t​s​-​r​e​p​o​r​t​-​k​e​r​n​e​r​-​c​o​m​m​i​s​s​ion

The man accused of attacking DaShawn Horne with a baseball bat became enraged when he learned his sister had spent the night with the young African-American man, Auburn police said. He has been charged with malicious harassment, the state’s hate-crime statute.

LaDonna Horne still can’t quite believe an alleged hate crime land­ed her 26-year-old son in the inten­sive-care unit at Harborview Medical Center with a trau­mat­ic brain injury.

“You just nev­er think it’s going to hap­pen to you or so close to home. I was just telling some­one, ‘It’s dif­fer­ent out here. Everybody gets along. It’s so diverse,’ ” Horne, who is African American, said Tuesday.

It was the 11^th day Horne, oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers and her son’s large cir­cle of friends have kept vig­il at the hos­pi­tal while they wait for DaShawn Horne to wake up from injuries sus­tained in what police are call­ing an unpro­voked attack with a base­ball bat.

“As his uncles, we taught him to pro­tect him­self,” said Ray Jenkins, who is con­sid­ered fam­i­ly even though he isn’t relat­ed to Horne. “But to be attacked from behind because of the col­or of his skin …”

“Who can be pre­pared for that?” said LaDonna Horne’s broth­er, Rodney King, fin­ish­ing his best friend’s sentence.

Auburn police and King County pros­e­cu­tors say Horne is the vic­tim of a bru­tal assault and hate crime, per­pe­trat­ed by the 18-year-old broth­er of a young woman with whom Horne spent a night.

Julian Tuimauga, of Auburn, was charged last week with first-degree assault and mali­cious harass­ment — the state’s hate-crime statute — and remains in the King County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail, jail and court records show.

From what his fam­i­ly has been able to piece togeth­er, Horne, a mail han­dler for the U.S. Postal Service who lives in Kent, had a rare Friday night off Jan. 19. He want­ed to go to a par­tic­u­lar night­club in Seattle’s Pioneer Square but couldn’t get in, so he went to anoth­er near­by club instead. There, he met a woman in her 20s and the two “hit it off,” LaDonna Horne said.

At the end of the night, she invit­ed him back to her place in Auburn.

The next morn­ing, the woman called a Lyft car to dri­ve Horne home, accord­ing to his rel­a­tives and charg­ing papers.

It was the Lyft dri­ver — who had backed into the dri­ve­way of a home in the 600 block of 27^th Street Southeast — who wit­nessed the assault and called 911 just before 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 20, the charges say.

According to charg­ing papers:

Tuimauga was car­ry­ing an alu­minum base­ball bat when he approached the Lyft dri­ver and asked who the dri­ver was there to pick up. The dri­ver gave Tuimauga’s sister’s name as the per­son who had request­ed the ride, then watched as Tuimauga walked to a cor­ner of the fenced yard.

A short time lat­er, the dri­ver saw Horne walk along the side of the house toward the dri­ve­way and heard him argue with Tuimauga, the charges say. He “then heard a thump sound like a bat had struck some­thing,” accord­ing to charg­ing papers.

The dri­ver looked back and saw Tuimauga strike Horne in the head twice with the bat and watched him fall to the ground, the charges say.

At that point, the dri­ver heard Tuimauga say, “This is what hap­pens when you bring black peo­ple around here,” the charges say.

The Lyft dri­ver drove away and parked two hous­es down, where he saw Tuimauga hit Horne three more times with the bat while he was lying uncon­scious on the ground, the charges say.

Part of the attack was cap­tured by a neighbor’s video-sur­veil­lance cam­era, and the footage shows Tuimauga armed with the bat and Horne “falling into the frame” already uncon­scious, charg­ing papers say.

While Horne was lying bloody in the front yard, Tuimauga used his cell­phone to video-record the injured man while yelling racial slurs at him, the charges say.

According to the charges, Tuimauga repeat­ed­ly used the N‑word.

State law defines mali­cious harass­ment — a felony com­mon­ly referred to as a hate crime — as inten­tion­al­ly injur­ing, dam­ag­ing prop­er­ty or threat­en­ing some­one because of his or her per­cep­tion of the victim’s race, col­or, reli­gion, ances­try, nation­al ori­gin, gen­der, sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion, or men­tal, phys­i­cal or sen­so­ry handicap.

Tuimauga’s father and sis­ter were inside the home and did not wit­ness the attack, the charges say. But the sis­ter told police her broth­er lat­er broke down her bed­room door and called her a “whore,” charg­ing papers say.

Police say Tuimauga lat­er told detec­tives he was “in a rage” because he believed his sis­ter and Horne had sex, the charges say.

At Harborview, doc­tors removed parts of Horne’s skull to relieve swelling in his brain, the charges say.

His broth­er, Obediyah Israel, set up a GoFundMe page on Friday to help cov­er his brother’s med­ical bills, lost wages and child sup­port for his 16-month-old son, Deion. So far, the cam­paign has raised more than $3,800 of a $25,000 goal.

Horne was a star foot­ball play­er at Federal Way High School and stud­ied crim­i­nal jus­tice at Eastern Washington University for three years before drop­ping out when his for­mer girl­friend got pregnant.

His fam­i­ly remains hope­ful he will recov­er but know he’s got a long road ahead. Horne — who under­went surgery on his tra­chea Monday — will remain in the hos­pi­tal for at least the next six months, and his prog­no­sis is unknown, King said. The fam­i­ly con­sent­ed to Horne’s being pho­tographed in his hos­pi­tal bed because they want­ed peo­ple to see what a hate crime looks like.

LaDonna Horne said her faith is keep­ing her strong. “As hard as this is, I for­give the young man who did this. But I won’t for­get,” she said. “Vengeance is for the Lord. It’s in God’s hands, and so is my son.”https://​www​.seat​tle​times​.com/​s​e​a​t​t​l​e​-​n​e​w​s​/​c​r​i​m​e​/​a​f​r​i​c​a​n​-​a​m​e​r​i​c​a​n​-​m​a​n​-​f​i​g​h​t​i​n​g​-​f​o​r​-​h​i​s​-​l​i​f​e​-​a​f​t​e​r​-​u​n​p​r​o​v​o​k​e​d​-​r​a​c​i​s​t​-​r​a​g​e​-​a​t​t​a​c​k​-​i​n​-​a​u​b​u​rn/

What a trag­ic irony that on the day that President Donald Trump is fac­ing a firestorm of push­back for label­ing Haitai and African nations shit­hole coun­tries, he goes out and signs the Martin Luther King day proclamation.

As part of that address, Trump read a short writ­ten statement.
The oth­er irony was the address giv­en by his Housing Secretary Dr. Ben Carson, a man who has no con­nec­tion or rela­tion­ship with the African American community.

• Every pres­i­dent since Ronald Reagan has signed the procla­ma­tion com­mem­o­rat­ing Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
• Since Congress passed leg­is­la­tion in 1983, every pres­i­dent since Ronald Reagan has signed the procla­ma­tion com­mem­o­rat­ing the civ­il rights leader with the fed­er­al hol­i­day. Although, the first nation­al cel­e­bra­tion did­n’t take place until 1986.
  This week Trump signed a mea­sure cre­at­ing a new nation­al his­toric park for Martin Luther King Jr. in Georgia. The park’s bound­aries include the Prince Hall Masonic Temple, a site that King used as the head­quar­ters for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, accord­ing to a White House spokesman.[cnn.com]

By Kevin M. Kruse

For many Americans, the recent move­ment of white suprema­cy from the mar­gins into the main­stream has been a stag­ger­ing devel­op­ment. Under the guise of coun­ter­ing a “polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness” run amok, top­ics that were long con­sid­ered taboo have late­ly been broached pub­licly and proud­ly. Fringe orga­ni­za­tions ded­i­cat­ed to white suprema­cy have mobi­lized with sur­pris­ing strength, while the pol­i­tics of racism have been revived and ratio­nal­ized at the high­est lev­els of power.

For white suprema­cists, Donald Trump’s vic­to­ry last fall was both rev­e­la­to­ry and rev­o­lu­tion­ary. “Trump has unques­tion­ably brought peo­ple to our ideas,” enthused Richard Spencer, the white-nation­al­ist leader who coined the term “alt-right.” Emboldened by the Trump admin­is­tra­tion — which, until recent­ly, includ­ed alt-right allies like Stephen Bannon — white suprema­cists stepped out of the shad­ows and into the spot­light. “It’s been an awak­en­ing,” Spencer raved at a cel­e­bra­to­ry ral­ly after Trump’s elec­tion. “This is what a suc­cess­ful move­ment looks like.”

That move­ment, of course, led to the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white suprema­cists gath­ered for a “Unite the Right” ral­ly this past August. According to for­mer Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, the pro­test­ers went there “to ful­fill the promis­es of Donald Trump” and “take our coun­try back.” To the shock of onlook­ers, clean-cut young men marched through the streets of the col­lege town in a torch­light parade, their faces con­tort­ed in anger as they shout­ed “Blood and Soil!” — the old Nazi slo­gan ren­dered in German as “Blut und Boden!” The fol­low­ing day, the demon­stra­tions turned dead­ly when a 20-year-old alt-right sup­port­er drove his car into a crowd of peace­ful coun­ter­pro­test­ers, killing one.

With any oth­er American pres­i­dent, the obvi­ous response would have been a quick and clear con­dem­na­tion of the white suprema­cists. But Trump, as he often reminds us, is like no oth­er pres­i­dent. His ini­tial com­ments parceled out blame to the “many sides” involved in the con­fronta­tion and were so light­ly drawn that the neo-Nazi web­site The Daily Stormer saw his words as a sign of sup­port. To make mat­ters worse, Trump then insist­ed that “some very fine peo­ple” had par­tic­i­pat­ed in the white-suprema­cist protest. Naturally, alt-right lead­ers were flat­tered. “Really proud of him,” said Spencer.

To many Americans, the warm rela­tion­ship between the White House and white suprema­cists appears to be a new and shock­ing devel­op­ment. But as Linda Gordon reminds us in The Second Coming of the KKK, white-suprema­cist pol­i­tics have entered our polit­i­cal main­stream before. The “sec­ond Klan” of the 1910s and ’20s — unlike the vig­i­lante group that pre­ced­ed it in the Reconstruction era or the racist ter­ror­ists who tar­get­ed the civ­il-rights move­ment in the 1950s and ’60s — oper­at­ed large­ly in the open and with broad sup­port from white soci­ety in gen­er­al and white politi­cians in par­tic­u­lar. Moving beyond the region­al and racial bound­aries of the South, this ver­sion of the Klan spread across the coun­try, tar­get­ing a broad­er range of ene­mies: Asians and Latinos along­side African Americans, as well as large swaths of reli­gious minori­ties like Catholics, Jews, and Mormons. At its peak, the sec­ond Klan claimed to have between 4 and 6 mil­lion mem­bers nation­wide, although Gordon makes a per­sua­sive case that this was “cer­tain­ly an exaggeration.”

Aslim vol­ume that large­ly syn­the­sizes the already sub­stan­tial lit­er­a­ture on its sub­ject, The Second Coming of the KKKnev­er­the­less offers read­ers some­thing new: The book is writ­ten, quite self-con­scious­ly, for this moment. Unlike oth­er his­to­ri­ans who strive for an ever-elu­sive objec­tiv­i­ty, Gordon is refresh­ing­ly blunt about who she is and why she wrote it. “In my dis­cus­sion of the Ku Klux Klan I am not neu­tral, and like all his­to­ri­ans, I can­not and do not wish to dis­card my val­ues in inter­pret­ing the past,” she notes in her intro­duc­tion. “The fact that I am one of those the Klan detest­ed — a Jew, an intel­lec­tu­al, a left­ist, a fem­i­nist, a lover of diver­si­ty — no doubt…informs this book.”Read more @ https://​www​.then​ation​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​t​h​e​-​s​e​c​o​n​d​-​k​l​an/

Maybe we need to take a step back and have a lit­tle introspection.
Whenever we get the urge to run out and indulge in a spend­ing spree which does not ben­e­fit us it behoove us to take up a real his­to­ry book and learn a lit­tle about ourselves.

The old­est daugh­ter of for­mer President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama is back in the news just for being a reg­u­lar col­lege stu­dent, doing the things that col­lege stu­dents (or per­haps 19-year-olds in gen­er­al) do: kiss­ing, smok­ing and just push­ing bound­aries as they morph into young adults.

The sto­ry orig­i­nat­ed @ Huffingtonpost​.com.