Tag Archives: #MoralMonday

Freaky Friday politics: gender and race expectations in the 2016 primary | #HillaryClinton & #BernieSanders on Blog#42

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Answering Jeffrey Toobin: Who should investigate Police? | #BlackLivesMatter

In his December 30, 2014 piece in The New Yorker, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin concludes:

“Schneiderman’s idea has considerable appeal; his judgment in the Eric Garner case would surely have had more credibility than the one rendered by Donovan.  Still, special prosecutors are not necessarily good or bad. Like the locals they replace, they are only as good as the cases they bring, or refrain from bringing. That, ultimately, will rest on the good judgment of the individuals involved, and no one has yet figured out a way of putting the right person in place all the time.”

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Rev. William Barber’s electrifying speech at Netroots Nation 2014

| Daily Kos

Reverend William Barber visited Netroots Nation and provided an inspirational speech that electrified the entire room. Most importantly, Rev. Barber gave a history lesson on moral fusion movements. Rev. Barber described the moral fusion movement in the context of the first and second reconstruction. He is imploring the effecting of the third reconstruction.

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