Well, that happened
I had a family emergency last night. Everyone is fine. No one is hurt. It was one of those things in life that’s so ridiculous, explaining it to you would give it more respect than I prefer to give it. Bottom line is I wasn’t able to compose my normal daily column. I did catch up on my editing, though. The Editorial Board keeps growing.
We added Chrissy Stroop to the line up. She wrote about a new study finding that white evangelical Protestants supported Donald Trump not for partisan or even religious reasons but because of their animosity toward minorities. (Yeah, shocker.)
Lindsay Beyerstein explained the case of Sha’Carri Richardson and why the World Anti-Doping Agency veered from its lane into the racist history of pot prohibition.
Claire Bond Potter wrote about how a condominium in sunny Florida isn’t the only thing collapsing. So is the state’s mule-headed dedication to conservative ideology.
And I’m very proud to tell you about Joe Killian’s piece. He’s the reporter who broke the news about Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creative mind behind the Times’ 1619 Project. Joe tells the rest of the story and quite beautifully. Please check it out.
Meanwhile, do me a favor. Watch this clip from Donny Deutsch. I want to know what you think. Let me now in the replies. I’m going to write my two cents tomorrow.
Thanks! —John Stoehr
Yeah, something changed. A lot of people decided work wasn’t worth risking your life for, and that we work too many hours for too little money. That fat cats like Johnny there are living off of us and he’s no better than me or my neighbor.
Most of all, we’re tired of being seen as interchangeable widgets, or fist centers to eliminate. We. Are. People.
I would love to see Deutsch get off his privileged butt and work one of those jobs for one day. Or two or three of those jobs in the same day, as many working Americans must do to survive. Then he can whine about workers going soft because they don’t cheerfully line up in their thousands to be exploited and abused.