Does any journalist who is not an overt shill for the right actually believe that Republicans are pushing voter ID laws because they’re concerned about voter fraud?
No, of course not.
And for good reason. READ MORE
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TJ Holmes Takes To MSNBC To Explain His ‘Driving While Black’ Traffic Stop
[F]ormer CNN anchor TJ Holmes appeared on MSNBC’sThe Ed Show to discuss what he believes are the racial implications of his incident with Atlanta police. Holmes and guest host Michael Eric Dyson connected the traffic stop to what they perceive as a lack of improvement on the race relations front since President Barack Obama took office. READ MORE + VIDEO
Confessions of an Occupier: Racial tensions fractured ‘Occupy Wall Street’
It was at around that time that an Occupier had showed up with an “Aryan Brotherhood” sign to “spokescouncil,” which was one of our most controversial decision-making bodies. It was started with promises of greater inclusion, but was in fact attacked for being exclusive, opaque, repressive and oppressive.
The individual had been asked to leave spokescouncil, but many members of the body had continued the meeting and suggested that the sign was just a bad joke, and we needed to move on. Needless to say, this was terribly traumatic for many people of color within the movement. READ MORE
Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?
[I]t becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other, said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This is why so many people meet their lifelong friends in college, she added. READ MORE
Michael Irvin: ‘We got to get to the bottom of’ Dez Bryant’s issues
“You guys want to talk about football, I want to tell you about the man,” said Irvin, who works as an analyst for the league’s network. “I don’t care what the Dallas Cowboys think on this situation. I only want somebody to talk to Dez about figuring out how you get to the place where your mom is begging you to go home and not hit her. I don’t care about anything else. That’s serious stuff that we got to get to the bottom of.”
Dez Bryant on Monday was arrested on domestic violence charges and is free on bond after the incident that took place in DeSoto, Texas. READ MORE + VIDEO
