Here are some of the tributes shared by activists, politicians, celebrities, and more in memory of George Floyd on the one-year anniversary of his murder.
We may have reached peak woke recently when some doctor got in a Twitter huff because a peasant of pallor did not detect the MD lurking within her, and this is a very good thing. This kind of foolishness will help us sooner consign wokeness to the fiery dumpster of history. The moral bankruptcy of wokeness should lead to its demise, but the abject stupidity of it might just kill it off first.
Now, the tale is as tiresome as you can imagine – apparently a “middle aged white woman” heir to Bull Connor – who was a Democrat – dared to ask the finicky physician if Her Medical Majesty worked at the store they were both shopping in and thereby assumed that Dr. Brittani James was a mere retail worker. I know, right?
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Tension is building in Springfield as state lawmakers zero in on how to redraw congressional and state legislative districts. And when we say “lawmakers,” we mean Democrats. Republicans have so far been iced out of the room where it’s all happening though there might be a reveal sometime this week.
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Back in 2014, then-First Lady Michelle Obama sparked a debate about what it meant to be mistaken for a retail clerk after she suggested allegedly being mistaken for a Target employee during a 2011 visit to a Target location in Alexandria, Va. constituted racism.
She told People magazine during a December 2014 interview on how the Obamas dealt with their “own racist experiences” that “during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf.”
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