I wish James Baldwin was still around

[misanthrope]

solely to watch him eviscerate Kmele Foster, the Thomas Sowell wannabe who seemed to have escaped critique from his performance on last week's Bill Maher show. The reality is he spurred on Maher as much as anything.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-who-said-the-n-word-on-tv-argues-that-racism-in-america-is-exaggerated

All it took was Foster chiming in on the Beast's Tweet about this op-ed and his libertarian supplicants flocked in behind him to extoll his genius. They, too, apparently, feel race has no role in the Mississippi Delta.

[cilla4progress]

1. Yes!

I learned so much about Mr. Baldwin this year - read Eddie Glaude's good good book on him, Begin Again.

[FM123]

2. Love him!

I think of his words often during the last four years:
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”