Stranger Than Fiction

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June 01, 2020

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TOP NEWS

  • Protests continue throughout the weekend. “It’s time to take this to the streets,” said Mr. Clemons, whose group has organized rallies in Atlanta to pray peacefully and denounce racism. “What we’re experiencing is the climax of a lot of things.” - WSJ

  • Understanding Tara Reade. “To better understand Ms. Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, The Times interviewed nearly 100 people and reviewed court records and her writings.” - NY Times

  • SpaceX capsule docked, NASA astronauts are aboard the International Space Station. “The mission was the first time NASA astronauts had launched from United States soil since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011, and it marked the first time a private company had flown astronauts to orbit.” - WaPo

  • Nearly half of those with Covid-19 may have no idea they are infected. “Epidemiological studies are now revealing that the number of individuals who carry and can pass on the infection, yet remain completely asymptomatic, is larger than originally thought. Scientists believe these people have contributed to the spread of the virus in care homes, and they are central in the debate regarding face mask policies, as health officials attempt to avoid new waves of infections while societies reopen.” - The Guardian

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THE COMMENT

"In spite of the Puritan-Yankee equation of virtue with well-being, Negroes had excellent reasons for doubting that money was made or kept by any very striking adherence to the Christian virtues; it certainly did not work that way for black Christians. In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be outwitted in any way whatever. And those virtues preached but not practiced by the white world were merely another means of holding Negroes in subjection.” - James Baldwin

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