“Bill Cosby was charged with sexual assault. No matter the outcome of this case this moment is an important public acknowledgement that even though many years have passed, there`s still the responsibility to take charges of sexual assault seriously.” YearsStillsImportantMatterMomentsResponsibilityCasesBillsOutcomesAssaultSexual AssaultAcknowledgement Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“The leading non-establishment Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, is just sailing past [establishment Republican candidates] in the polls. He is still surging. He is basically killing them all.” StillsPastPresidentTrumpRepublicanKillingCandidatesEstablishmentSailingPolls Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“We were looking for the Rick Perries, the Scott Walkers, the Bobby Jindals, all to probably still be on the stage.They`re all gone and [Donald] Trump has sucked the oxygen out of race and made it a national race courtesy a little bit of NBC making him a celebrity, second of all, just his personality.” LittlesMadeStillsBitsRaceGoneStagePersonalityTrumpLittle BitMade ItOxygenCourtesyWalkersNbc Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?” PeopleFeelsYearsFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoMomentsBigsYoungBlackPresidentJusticeCitiesKeysPoliceElectionCourtChiefsAfrican AmericanLeagueDepartmentVotersBoastAttorneyMayorsBig CitiesProsecutorReelection Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.” StillsMomentsHandsLyingFatherBeliefNationsClassLandCitizensBuiltSlaveryUnionsLiberationGenocideImperfectFabricTornFoundingImperialismStolen Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
