For this Word on the Street column, the MSR asked community members to share their thoughts on the violence and possible solutions.
Opinion
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The new language of vote suppression
What’s often missing, though, from any inventory of voter suppression techniques is mention of an essential ingredient: language.
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John Lewis: Making a way out of no way
John Lewis held fast to his ideals of truth and justice for all.
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The real looters and thugs are in the White House and Senate
Trump’s family businesses and his close associates received more than $21 million, and many other wealthy people got huge checks from the “CARES” Act. This is organized crime.
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Why unity is like a unicorn
If you dissect other racial/ethnic groups, you will find in-fighting over religious beliefs, land, politics and economics.
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WORD ON THE STREET | Community members share thoughts on Cup Foods
The MSR took to the street recently to ask community members what they think about Cup Foods in light of the George Floyd tragedy.
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The lies they tell: COVID-19 inside our prisons
What are we really doing to help and prevent the spread of this deadly disease to the human beings who are incarcerated in our prisons?
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Police, military, it’s all the same
Letting Joe Biden take a mulligan for attacking Iraq is part of the same structural racism that got George Floyd murdered. What else gives privileged Whites in Washington the freedom to attack defenseless Arabs who were not attacking anyone? Certainly not “war.” If Blacks, Muslims, Native Americans or Latinos started a “war,” they would pay […]
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No more middle ground
History has been made by those who have made deep sacrifices; they did the right thing and
committed to doing the right thing despite the personal cost.
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Why are so many people lighting off fireworks?
The number of fireworks being lit off at night is out of control this year.
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From ‘defund the police’ to its obvious next step
If Americans have reason to question the nation’s increasingly militarized law enforcement, shouldn’t they question this country’s thoroughly militarized approach to statecraft?
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Defunding the police should lead to community control of resources
A serious, methodical program of defunding the police requires a community control approach.
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Black voters might hold Democrats accountable for police violence at the polls
The deaths of Black Americans in suspicious or outright brutal circumstances has now become nauseatingly prevalent,.
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The police are the real outside agitators
The police serve to reinforce the rulers’ definition of crime, but no system is more criminal than U.S. capitalism, the social/political/economic institution they serve.
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It is time for us to listen and repent
How was it possible that, in 2020, such systemic racism had led to the early deaths—in so many ways—of my African American brothers and sisters?
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Rebellion calls scoundrels, criminal systems into account
While people of goodwill sincerely debate, the Black political class does everything in its power to make sure that nothing much is accomplished at all.
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Celebrate: Supreme Court says yes to DACA
The Supreme Court’s decision basically rescinds the Trump administration rescission, but it does not guarantee a future for DACA recipients.
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Across the nation, we the people are winning!
Nobody should misunderstand what’s going on in the streets of the U.S. We are winning!
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Voices from the corporate community on George Floyd’s murder
The tragedy in Minneapolis hit particularly close to home for the nearly 9,000 members of the Boston Scientific team who live and work there.
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From Mississippi to Minneapolis, change is coming
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, for all its accomplishments, failed to rid our society of the plague of racism.