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NOT JUST WHISTLIN’ DIXIE
Now that’s progress: A state commission has recommended that Virginia’s Lee statue be removed from Statuary Hall and replaced by a Black female civil-rights icon.
Sophia A. Nelson is a CNN Legal & Political commentator, a USA Today opinion writer, and an award-winning journalist and the author of three non-fiction books.
Sophia was the first African American woman to serve as a US House of Representatives Republican Congressional Committee Investigative Counsel. After a stint in private practice at the International law firm of Holland & Knight, LLP Nelson went on to cover the Obama White House as a correspondent for the iconic JET Magazine 2010-2012, and after that, writing award winning columns for Essence Magazine. She is the author of Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama, The Woman Code:20 Powerful Keys to Unlock Your Life, and, most recently, e Pluribus One: Reclaiming Our Founders' Vision for a United America.
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FOUL HYPOCRITES
They are victims of the younger, more diverse America that rejected Trump and voted for Biden. They are victims of their own white male aggrievement and resentment.
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NEW NORMAL
The same guy who managed to hear no evil when it comes to Donald Trump is shocked, shocked than a Democrat said mean things about Republicans.
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ZERO IT OUT
I could have gotten a better loan rate from the Mafia and actually paid it back by now.
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GUESS WHO?
Socialism reverberated like crazy in this election, but it was ironic that Trump supporters couldn't recognize what a threat to democracy he posed.
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ENOUGH
If we can do it to protest the horrific death of George Floyd, we can do it to demand that Donald J. Trump and his sycophants respect the will of the American people.
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HISTORY MAKER
“It’s not your time yet.” “Wait your turn.” Thank goodness Kamala Harris never listened to those words.
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ANTI-RETRO
Doug Emhoff (Mr. Kamala Harris) and Jesse Barrett (Mr. Amy Coney Barrett) aren’t weak or emasculated. They’re what men today should be.
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JUST US
Not one officer has had to answer for killing an innocent young woman, in her own home.
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ROLE MODEL
All of us as women have been subject to gender discrimination, sexual harassment in some form, disrespect from male colleagues, and on and on. All of us. Not just some of us.