Saturday, July 21, 2018
The Great Debaters 2018
From the Huffington Post -
Atlanta Students Dominate Harvard Debate Competition
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blackexcellence-dominates-harvard-debate-competition_us_5b51039ce4b0cf38668f75f3
Atlanta Students Dominate Harvard Debate Competition
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blackexcellence-dominates-harvard-debate-competition_us_5b51039ce4b0cf38668f75f3
Powerful Indeed
Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a drafter of the Refugee Act of 1980, resigns from the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. This is a powerful read: pic.twitter.com/PrUBHrXDYo— Mana Yegani (@Law_Mana) July 19, 2018
Missing Mr. O
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond
By Max Boot
How I miss Barack Obama.
And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.
Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.11f0bc86c02d
This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond
By Max Boot
How I miss Barack Obama.
And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.
Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.11f0bc86c02d
11 Year Old Turned Pain Into Profit
An excerpt from CNN -
This 11 year old was bullied for her skin color. Now, she owns a successful clothing line
By Elizabeth Elkin and Ben Burnstein
Kheris Rogers can't forget the grade school humiliation. During an assignment where the students had to draw themselves, the teacher handed the shy dark-skinned girl a black crayon instead of a brown one.
"I was the darkest of all of them," the stunning 11 year old recalls of her classmates. "But they were all African-American."
Rogers had earlier transferred from another school to escape the incessant bullying. It didn't work. Her complexion set her apart, a label she couldn't shed.
But now Rogers owns her label, literally. Her clothing line is called "Flexin' In My Complexion." The brand has caught fire among some big celebrities.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/health/sisters-anti-bullying-clothing-line-trnd/index.html
This 11 year old was bullied for her skin color. Now, she owns a successful clothing line
By Elizabeth Elkin and Ben Burnstein
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| Kheris Rogers started a clothing line with her sister after she was bullied for the color of her skin |
Kheris Rogers can't forget the grade school humiliation. During an assignment where the students had to draw themselves, the teacher handed the shy dark-skinned girl a black crayon instead of a brown one.
"I was the darkest of all of them," the stunning 11 year old recalls of her classmates. "But they were all African-American."
Rogers had earlier transferred from another school to escape the incessant bullying. It didn't work. Her complexion set her apart, a label she couldn't shed.
But now Rogers owns her label, literally. Her clothing line is called "Flexin' In My Complexion." The brand has caught fire among some big celebrities.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/health/sisters-anti-bullying-clothing-line-trnd/index.html
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