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Our attitudes are ours to decide

By pure luck, I traveled to Walt Disney World with my husband and my son just last week between hurricanes Helene and Milton. Milton made landfall in Florida as a category 3 hurricane. We planned this vacation months ago according to our son’s fall break from school. This trip was our first family vacation that didn’t revolve around also visiting a relative. We decided to go to Disney just because we wanted to. It was glorious time spent together. We walked all day and had the blisters to prove it. Despite being October, it was hot and humid. Sweat poured off us as the temperature ...

Why do we lack education freedom?

What issue could be more important to a nation’s future than education? A country is about people. How Americans act, work, think, choose — live — reflects their values. K-12 education, of course, is about learning to read and do math. This is what we measure in test scores. But education is a lot more than acquisition of technical skills. It is about transmission of values and our sense of meaning of what life is about. It’s these values that determine how we act, behave, work and deal with life’s many challenges. Polling tells us that Americans are generally ...

Days leading to election are critical

Some of you have shared with me your fears about the upcoming election, now just 22 days away. I can’t sugarcoat this. It is frightening and worrying. We have already endured four years of Trump. Another term could tip America and the world into full-bore fascism. Trump has become even more unhinged and vindictive. His fascistic personality is now on full display — his cruel lies, scapegoating of innocent people, creation of enemies and “enemies within.” JD Vance is as bad, if not worse. Many of you are dismayed that Trump is running almost head-to-head with Harris, given ...

Here’s what Ta-Nehisi Coates got right

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has gotten far more attention than he deserves for his new book, “The Message,” which contains a blistering condemnation of Israel. The response from Israel’s defenders has been equally and deservedly blistering. The heart of their criticism is pretty simple: Coates doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He visited Israel for 10 days on a literary junket run by critics of Israel and returned to write, by his own account, a one-sided, wholly impressionistic indictment of the country. When I say by his own account, I mean it. Coates insists that he ...

Harris targeting Black men with giveaways

Vice President Kamala Harris is rushing to fix a growing hole in her support: Black men. She’s buying votes with thinly veiled, taxpayer-funded giveaways. Your tax dollars will pay for “fully forgivable” $20,000 loans for businesses. And worse, she’s targeting Black men with these giveaways, as if no one else deserves to participate in her “opportunity economy.” If you’re having trouble growing your business, and you’re white — male or female — will you be eligible? Sounds unlikely. That’s blatant discrimination, immoral and unconstitutional. Yet not a murmur ...

President Obama to the rescue

“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”- Joe Biden on “The Breakfast Club,” 2020 “We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running.”- Barack Obama, last week The condescension inherent in these remarks is one reason why especially young Black men are moving away from the Democratic Party to which Blacks have been joined at the hip since the Franklin Roosevelt administration. This kind of tribal “group think” is designed to ...