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Leonard Pitts: An open letter to the GOP about Mr. Trump
Dear Republican Party: Congratulations. By now, one thing is beyond dispute: You have produced a candidate for the ages. This column is only 600 words ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, August 3, 2016 7:16 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Democrats remind us of us
In the end, it wasn’t even close. After a GOP gathering in Cleveland that had all the incandescent joy of a biblical plague, the Democratic ...
by Leonard Pitts, Saturday, July 30, 2016 3:13 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Cop killers serve no cause
How can anyone ever explain this to Mason? He’s only 4 months old, so that moment still lies years in the future. Still, at some ...
by Leonard Pitts, Tuesday, July 19, 2016 7:18 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Police are not the problem, we are
This is not about the police. At least, not solely. Granted, the police are the reason we are heartbroken today, the reason cable news networks ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, July 13, 2016 6:00 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Our world has gone mad
“What sort of people are we, we Americans? … Today, we are the most frightening people on this planet.” — Arthur Schlesinger, historian As these ...
by Leonard Pitts, Friday, July 8, 2016 7:18 pm
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Hatred & rhetoric spawn violence
I am supposed to be writing about a shooting in Orlando, but my thoughts keep circling back to a funeral in Louisville. About the shooting, ...
by Leonard Pitts, Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:00 am
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Leonard Pitts: History not obliged to make you feel good
Dear Snoop Dogg: You could have been honest about it. If you had, I’d still think you wrong as two left shoes, but at least ...
by Leonard Pitts, Saturday, June 4, 2016 4:55 pm
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Leonard PItts: George Zimmerman takes victory lap on a dead boy’s grave
It was not enough just to kill Sam Hose. No, they had to make souvenirs out of him. Hose was an African-American man lynched by ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 3:20 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Are bathroom bans part of new American ethos?
Home of the brave? Try fiefdom of fear. And not even fear of stuff that might happen. No, fear of stuff that never will.
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, May 4, 2016 4:02 pm
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Pitts: McAuliffe is less than forthright on felon vote
The Republicans are probably right. Last week, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, issued an executive order restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 ex-offenders. ...
by Leonard Pitts, Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:00 am
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Leonard Pitts: Conservatives lie about history to save conscience
This one’s for John. He’s a reader who took issue with my recent column arguing that conservatism has become an angry and incoherent mess. John ...
by Leonard Pitts, Sunday, April 17, 2016 12:00 am
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Leonard Pitts: Doesn’t Mississippi have more pressing concerns?
A portrait of Mississippi: It has a lower percentage of high school graduates than almost any other state. It has an unemployment rate higher than ...
by Leonard Pitts, Sunday, April 10, 2016 12:00 am
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Leonard Pitts: GOP eerily silent on guns at convention
So do you think guns should be allowed at the Republican National Convention? Granted, the question is moot. On Monday, the Secret Service announced that ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, March 30, 2016 6:50 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Defeating Trump won’t erase forces that made him possible
We should probably start thinking about what we’re going to do after Trump. Of course, if the nation decides it really does want a vulgar, ...
by Leonard Pitts, Saturday, March 12, 2016 6:12 pm
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Leonard Pitts: What happened to the center?
“Things fall apart. The centre cannot hold.” — William Butler Yeats And so this is the presidential campaign of 2016. If it were a movie, ...
by Leonard Pitts, Sunday, February 21, 2016 1:45 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Republicans obstruct, Obama is obtuse
This was three days before Antonin Scalia died. President Obama had just spoken before the Illinois General Assembly. Now, he and some old friends, all ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, February 17, 2016 7:05 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Planned Parenthood gets poetic justice
“A lie can get halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” That nugget of wisdom dates from the 1800s, ...
by Leonard Pitts, Sunday, January 31, 2016 12:00 am
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Leonard Pitts: Poor hit hard by Flint’s slow-rolling disaster
“Them that’s got shall get. Them that’s not shall lose” — Billie Holiday It was in April of 2014 that the water turned bad. ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, January 20, 2016 6:48 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Giving people what they want
“You got to give the people what they want.” O’Jays Even by his standards, it was an astounding performance. Over the course of just two ...
by Leonard Pitts, Tuesday, December 1, 2015 11:12 pm
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Pitts: Reality of race bias is well-documented
I once read a question that went as follows: Two groups of young men are walking on opposite sides of the street. One group is ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, November 4, 2015 6:03 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Living in a world that Playboy made
I used to love Playboy magazine. And yes, it was mainly for the articles. But I wasn’t exactly repulsed by the pictures. You may find ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, October 21, 2015 8:33 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Stuff happens? The Bush war on English
And the Bush family’s War on English continues. You are, by now, familiar with the astonishingly tone-deaf response by Jeb Bush, the nation’s would-be 45th ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, October 7, 2015 8:43 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Quick lesson in political language
In 1958, Democrat George Wallace, running as a candidate for governor of Alabama and racially moderate enough to be endorsed by the NAACP, was swamped ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, September 23, 2015 7:19 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Where is accountability?
He was not a terrorist with a dirty bomb in his suitcase. He was not a stalker with a Glock in his fist. He was ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, September 16, 2015 7:25 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Carter shows what faith should be
“To want what I have, to take what I’m given with grace … for this, I pray.” — “For My Wedding,” by Don Henley America is a ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:02 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Black, white, brown … police brutality affects all
This will not be a column about Sandra Bland, although it could be. Certainly there is cause for outrage over the way a Texas state ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, July 29, 2015 6:00 am
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Where’s the justice?
The United States does not have a justice system. If we define a justice system as a system designed for the production of justice, then ...