Suicide of a Dishonest Officer
Sometimes bad people simply do bad things. Not everything in real life fits neatly into a narrative.
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Charles M. Blow has been a New York Times Op-Ed columnist since 2008. His column appears on Monday and Thursday.
Mr. Blow joined The New York Times in 1994 as a graphics editor and quickly became the paper’s graphics director, a position he held for nine years. In that role, he led The Times to a best of show award from the Society for News Design for The Times’s information graphics coverage of 9/11, the first time the award had been given for graphics coverage. He also led the paper to its first two best of show awards from the Malofiej Infographics World Summit for work that included coverage of the Iraq war. Mr. Blow became the paper’s design director for news before leaving in 2006 to become the art director of National Geographic magazine. Before joining The Times, Mr. Blow had been a graphic artist at The Detroit News.
Mr. Blow is the author of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” released in September 2014. He graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, where he received a B.A. in mass communications. He lives in Brooklyn and has three children.
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Most of his speeches ooze over me like cold gruel. But there’s one special phrase, when I hear it, that tells me to perk up and pay attention.
More of the paternalistic attitude that ignores racism and assumes that blacks want to be victims.
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Even with so many candidates filling the stage, race remained the largest elephant in the room.
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Sometimes bad people simply do bad things. Not everything in real life fits neatly into a narrative.
The Republican candidates, especially Ben Carson, appear to want to say little and avoid tough questions.
Chris Christie said that Black Lives Matter is “calling for the murder of police officers.” Quiet down and drink your smoothie, Governor.
The Benghazi committee embarrassed itself, and instead of weakening Mrs. Clinton, it bolstered her standing with potential voters.
Sanders’s strong performance was subsumed by Clinton’s even stronger one. She held steady and defiant.
Now, as then, it’s hard to separate the march from its messenger, Louis Farrakhan.
After this week’s string of dumbfounding comments emanating from the candidate, I’m starting to doubt everything that comes out of his mouth.
The latest mass shooting should prod Americans into action, and not further into a kind of numbness.
Most of his speeches ooze over me like cold gruel. But there’s one special phrase, when I hear it, that tells me to perk up and pay attention.
More of the paternalistic attitude that ignores racism and assumes that blacks want to be victims.
His pedigree as a neurosurgeon adds gravitas to his nonsensical utterances and provides some cover for poisonously harmful, over-the-line invectives.
The candidate is weak on facts and on her understanding of the challenges less fortunate women face.
Even with so many candidates filling the stage, race remained the largest elephant in the room.
The presidential candidate has an uphill climb against the far greater name recognition of Hillary Clinton.
The media, and possibly the public, loathes coasting. Trajectory makes a better story. And for Clinton, the only available trajectory was down.
People must define their own sexuality, despite the categories others would impose.
Demanding police fairness, oversight and accountability isn’t the same as promoting police hatred or harm.
A savage beating of a 14-year-old Chicago boy is a sadly familiar story to today’s young black people.
When people refer to the press as the fourth estate, it shouldn’t be confused with a Trump property.
Liberals and conservatives alike must answer for how the criminal justice system has been unleashed upon black people in this country.