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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Liz Truss tries to sell here what she couldn't sell there. [1]

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Date: 2023-02-01  

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Tyre Nichols' Killing Is The Result of a Diseased Culture

DeSantis and Lee would be among the first to tell you that government overreach is something to be abhorred. That is, unless it’s a band of right-wing extremists doing the reaching. Across the country, their acolytes are winning school board seats, declaring a war on “woke,” then promptly firing superintendents and anyone else standing in the way of their march to re-colonize America’s school rooms. As prosecutions from the Jan. 6 insurrection shows, they are in the ranks of our nation’s law enforcement officers. And, yes, some of the people supporting those ideologies are Black.

I am under no delusion that a book would have stopped those officers from killing Nichols. Knowing one’s history did not stop a gang of undercover cops—some Black, some white—from accosting my son. What I do know is this: We can either choose to educate a new generation of children who will perpetuate the systems and beliefs that increase the likelihood of another Black man dying as he cries out for his mother. Or, we can choose to continue working to perfect this nation and preserve this republic by honoring the diverse perspectives that built it.

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