The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic

The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic:
"Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole."

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The brilliant Ta-Nehisi Coates. He makes a powerful case.

The Case for Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic

The Case for Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic:
"But it all combined to make me feel that mainstream liberal discourse was getting it wrong. The relentless focus on explanations which are hard to quantify, while ignoring those which are not, the subsequent need to believe that America triumphs in the end, led me to believe that we were hiding something, that there was something about ourselves which were loath to say out in public. Perhaps the answer was somewhere else, out there on the ostensibly radical fringes, something dismissed by people who should know better. People like me. "

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Please go read the entire article. It is simply brilliant

Miles O'Brien and Neil deGrasse Tyson - Star Talk Radio

About as good as it gets

Georgia’s War On The Poor

Georgia’s War On The Poor

 The second bill, HB 943, restricts state and local agencies and their employees from advocating for Medicaid expansion, bans the creation of a state health insurance exchange, and prohibits the University of Georgia from continuing its navigator program once its original federal grant expires in August. 

Impressive stuff. Guess I will strike Savannah off my retirement list

Your Saturday evening CounterTenor - Philippe Jaroussky

Saw him on the cover of a recent edition of Opera News .
I am always of two minds about countertenors but he has a rather nice quality that i quite like.

JAQing Off - Quora Edition

(1) Benghazi Controversy (Fall 2012): Why was Richard Nixon forced to resign for Watergate, but Obama isn't for Benghazi? - Quora: "★Why was Richard Nixon forced to resign for Watergate, but Obama isn't for Benghazi?Edit Could someone please explain the differences in a civil manner, this is not meant to be an anti-Obama question, but rather one looking for truth/fact."

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Miami's Culture of Inclusion

2014 NFL draft -- Miami Dolphins GM disappointed in Don Jones' tweet in regards to Michael Sam - ESPN:

"Just 48 hours after Pro Bowl center Mike Pouncey found himself in hot water over recent Twitter comments, Dolphins second-year player Don Jones tweeted a controversial reaction to the St. Louis Rams drafting Michael Sam, who became the first openly gay player drafted in the NFL. [+] Enlarge AP Photo/Lynne Sladky Dolphins general manager Dennis Hickey on Don Jones' apparent anti-Michael Sam tweet: "That's not what we stand for as an organization." Soon after Sam was drafted, Jones tweeted "OMG" and "horrible." Those tweets since have been deleted. Television cameras showed Sam kissing his boyfriend after the former Missouri star received a phone call from the Rams. "

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And as usual, many of the comments on the story are stupid. No, this isn't about freedom of speech.