“Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!” Robert BurnsThis 239-year-old quote from poet Robert Burns came to mind as I searchedfor something to say about the death of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-oldMemphis man who was savagely beaten by police on January 7. Seeing himattached to tubes with his eyes swollen shut and his face bloodied broke myheart but seeing how it happened was more than I could bear. The traffic stop that resulted in his beating and subsequent death at the handsof five Memphis police officers left me speechless, however, that his death wasby African American officers sworn to…
Author: Cynthia Bond Hopson, Ph.D.
I’ve won every election I entered—two 400 years ago, beforecomputers—and I understood going in that there was a chance I’d lose. Iplanned to win but had no plan for losing. Obviously neither does HouseSpeaker wannabe Kevin McCarthy. For the first time in modern history a new speaker wasn’t elected in atimely fashion so the world of politics could move along at its usual snail’space. Today I have three simple questions surrounding this “no speaker hasbeen elected” stalemate: after three or four days of rejection, how muchplainer can it be that Mr. McCarthy may not be the man with/ for the…