is in a long and honorable tradition including nickel and dimed in 2001 where she went to three different cities around the country and tried to live on a working wage, a blue collar wage. she got all of the same criticisms for having she was asked if she had a cappuccino fund on the side. she was accused of being able to go back to her privileged life. black like me, howard griffin living as an african-american man to supply him with pigment altering chemicals, he lived as an african-american man in the south and then went back to the life of privilege. i think they all go back transformed and i think a lot has to do with how they carry themselves. if they say i now totally understand the plight of the person i m impersonating. it s bogus. but that s not what they re saying. he lived as an african-american man or a gay man or that barbara lived as a poor person, not really.
flaws, tempt us to bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it. in the coming days, javon belcher s actions and their possible connection to football will be analyzed. who knows? but hear wrote jason whitlock. if javon belcher didn t possess a gun, he and kassandra perkins would loath be alive today. costas and whitlock, were talking about the death of jordan davis. a florida student was killed in a hail of bullets fired by a motorist over the volume of the music jordan and his friends were playing. we haven t forgotten the hundreds and thousands of nameless people who are nameless to the media who are falling victim to gun violence in cities like chicago. how many more kassandras and jordan and trayvons and gabby giffords do we need before our political leaders talk seriously about our country s gun problem. with me at the table, law
you should know that there is much we will never know about the deaths of javon belcher and kassandra perkins. you should know what we don t know shouldn t keep us from trying to understand the major factors that can contribute to tragedies like this. a study published in a scientific journal brain this week finds that concussions are not the only things that lead to the degenerative brain disease known as cte. the examinations of brains from dead players and boxers found that various stages but also in amateur football players. in other words, concussions wrn the problem, football was. you should know that friday issed the deadline for states will set up exchanges for people to buy health insurance or let the federal government do it for them. exchanges are one of the major components of obama care yet to come online and some republican governors see the decision not as an opportunity to make health
that s the power of the home depot. pick up a ridgid jobmax multi-tool starter kit and get a free head attachment. most of the talk about the murder ever kassandra perkins and javon belcher, the man who killed her, has been about guns. we can t forget the tact that this was an act of domestic violence. my colleague at the nation, jessica va a length i expressed this best. when she wrote when the media reports domestic violence as random tragedies or that he snapped, they enable a culture of violence against women. when you don t contextualize it, you give credence to the myth that there s nothing anyone could have done to stop it. joining me from boston is the columnist from the nation is jessica. hi. thanks for having me.
kind of wild west cowboy dirty harry aspect. bill: they are macho men and have got to have a gun. influenced by some of what we see in the inner cities. somewhat may be glamorized gangster rap videos whatever it may be. different ways. different demographics. i would signature to you if somebody has the right to guns. this may guns far more often. bad things happen including unintentional things than things where the presence of a gun diminishes or averts danger. bill: i want to get into the gun culture here so it s cool in the nfl and in the nba and this and that for some athletes to carry a gun. would you say that s true? all i can tell you is since i have made these comments i have heard from players past and present, from coaches, from executives, in the nfl, saying they are they have long been alarmed and concerned by the number of players who cavalierly believe that you have to have a gun. we now see in text messages between javon belcher and a