McCain, Oliver North, Starbucks: 3 Stories You Should Read Today – 5/20/2018
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In the category of: Decency is in short supply
‘He’s dying anyway’: White House official mocked Sen. John McCain, reports say
A White House official mocked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his battle with the deadly disease during a meeting Thursday, The Hill reported. And earlier a guest on Fox News Business implied that McCain betrayed U.S. secrets when he was tortured as a prisoner of war.
“It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway,” press aide Kelly Sadler said about McCain’s opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel at a meeting of White House communications staffers, according to an unnamed source cited by The Hill’s Jordan Fabian.
In the category of: You can’t make this stuff up
NRA PRESIDENT OLIVER NORTH SAYS PARKLAND GUN CONTROL ACTIVISTS ARE CRIMINAL CIVIL TERRORISTS
The newly elected president of the National Rifle Association has claimed that gun control activists, like those who have emerged following a deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, are “civil terrorists.”
“They’re not activists—this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America,” Oliver North told the Washington Times. “You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of thing.”
In the category of: It’s not just about Starbucks
From Starbucks to Hashtags: We Need to Talk About Why White Americans Call the Police on Black People
As a black man in America who has been harassed by police more times than I can count, I wasn’t surprised by the viral Starbucks video at all. However, my anger is directed not just at the cops but also at the cowardly Starbucks manager who made the call to the police to begin with. The men and women making these outrageous and unwarranted calls to police, which result in the harassment, unfair prosecution and even death of people of color, need to be found, publicly shamed and prosecuted to the full extent that the law allows.
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