Perspectives: RNC Continues Alongside Kenosha Violence, Sports Strikes, and Hurricane Laura
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From the Right
The Republican convention makes a play for the black vote. Will it work?The Republican National Convention’s third night was largely geared toward one group: black voters.
The GOP featured several black speakers who could speak to the hardship and bigotry that many black people in the United States faced (and still do face) unjustly. Former NFL player Burgess Owens (whose great-great-grandfather was brought to the U.S. as a slave) spoke about growing up in the Jim Crow era, when segregation threatened to cripple his opportunity and take away his freedoms. And then, there was Clarence Henderson, who was arrested during a sit-in...
From the Center
How the Republican National Convention was nearly lost in a day of newsThe vice president of the United States officially accepted the nomination to continue being the vice president. He did so in a controversial and scathing speech toward the Democrats. Under normal circumstances, this would have been, easily, the biggest story of the night.
On Wednesday, it barely cracked the top five.
In what was an incredibly jam-packed day, news organizations were scrambling to cover four other huge stories.
From the Left
Professional athletes outshine the RNCThe state of the Republican Party can be summed up by the glaring contrast between its convention and the conduct of professional athletes on Wednesday who refused to ignore the shooting of yet another Black man, Jacob Blake, coupled with the arrest of an alleged White shooter who killed two people during demonstrations in Kenosha, Wis.
President Trump did not reach out to Blake’s family nor denounce the killings during the protests, allegedly by a 17-year-old who attended a Trump rally and reveled in the Blue Lives Matter rhetoric Trump...
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