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On Saturday s
Velshi show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi uncorked a commentary defending his attempts to contextualize leftist rioting last June as an acceptable method against injustice. Like many others, Velshi gave cover to rioters and rationalized their actions.
He began by complaining about the conservative media and President Donald Trump using a clip from last May of him standing in front of a burning building in Minneapolis portraying the city s protests as not unruly and mostly peaceful. Velshi justified this spin as just a brief clip:
And I was concerned that the impression a viewer might get from watching a police station overcome and of buildings burning was that of a riot, or that
Comparing BLM marches to the Capitol riots ignores history, and truth
White America needs to stop clinging to its fear of Black violence and justification of violent white grievances.
Minneapolis State Patrol officers arrest protesters in Minneapolis on Oct. 7.Kerem Yucel / AFP via Getty Images
Jan. 19, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC
On the night of May 28, I was standing in front of a burning liquor store at the corner of East Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue in Minneapolis. Three days had passed since the death of George Floyd in police custody, and no arrests had been made.
The idea that people of color who demonstrate for their rights Black people, specifically are inherently threatening and dangerous is commonplace in America.
Yeshiva President Rabbi Lamm, Harrison Ford, and Humility
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern is the Senior Advisor to the Provost and Senior Program Officer of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University, and the editor of “Esther in America” (Maggid Books)
Harrison Ford had been defeated. However, the victor was not a red lightsaber-wielding Kylo Ren in a galaxy far, far away, but rather, a nobody.
In 1976, on his first day as president of Yeshiva University, then-48-year-old Rabbi Norman Lamm was excited. Undoubtedly dreaming of expanded academic programs, enhanced Torah learning opportunities for women and men, and building a new donor base, he eventually took a lunch break. Picking out his food in the cafeteria, he headed to the register to pay. But when asked by the food-services staff member to display his campus ID, then pay, he froze. He didn’t have his ID on him. “Are you a student?” The cashier asked.
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