Pretending to be motivated by concern for African Americans is both cynical and offensive.
Leonard Pitts
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Leonard Pitts: Mike Pence’s commencement speech offers self-pitying faith as foxhole
The vice president’s warnings about the persecution of Christians had neither the poor nor the outcast in mind.
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Leonard Pitts: Our president is a liar. Why won’t (most) news outlets say so?
On the occasion of the 10,000th lie of the Trump presidency, journalists should embrace their role as arbiters of truth – not run away from it.
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Leonard Pitts: The Mueller report makes clear that it’s time to impeach Trump
With our country on the line, we should be concerned not about what is strategic, but about what is right.
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Leonard Pitts: Some reasons to hope
It’s refreshing for a black American to see white counterparts who are wrestling with their own racial assumptions.
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Leonard Pitts: A nation awash in lies is paying an ever-higher price
A vaccine-preventable disease outbreak is just the latest example of what happens when we fail to think critically.
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Leonard Pitts: Sense of ‘one nation, indivisible’ receding further into our past
Beto O’Rourke’s evocation of unity last week only emphasizes how much we’ve changed since another skinny guy with an odd name sounded a similar theme.
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Leonard Pitts: We’re all paying far too high a price for ‘gun rights’
The suicides of two Parkland survivors and a Newtown victim’s father show that firearm violence takes a toll long after the bullets stop flying.
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Leonard Pitts: Hate ending in bloodshed not a new phenomenon
Massacres like the one in New Zealand are the predictable result of the rise in international intolerance.
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Leonard Pitts: New app helps triggered Trump supporters find safe haven
Unfortunately, the ideological segregation that 63red Safe promotes is nothing new.