The truth in Black and white: An apology from The Kansas City Star
Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.
For 140 years, it has been one of the most influential forces in shaping Kansas City and the region. And yet for much of its early history — through sins of both commission and omission — it disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians. It reinforced Jim Crow laws and redlining. Decade after early decade it robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition.
That business is The Kansas City Star.
Before I say more, I feel it to be my moral obligation to express what is in the hearts and minds of the leadership and staff of an organization that is nearly as old as the city it loves and covers:
We are sorry.
It’s not enough, only decriminalizing rather than legalizing, but it’s better than the status quo:
The first 10 minutes are about the phonecall.
Not to mention, the right photo is the Lincoln Memorial, not the Capitol where one of the most important functions of Congress were taking place.
Who knows - Joe might be able to get them in.
What about our other territories, are they doing the same thing, I wonder?
A: They’re not. BUT…
His execution is the 13th carried out since July when the US government ended a 17-year hiatus on federal executions.
Higgs and accomplice Willis Haynes offered to drive them home but instead took them to a wildlife refuge in Maryland, where prosecutors said Higgs gave Haynes a gun and told him to shoot the three women.
…Haynes, who confessed to being the shooter, was sentenced to life in prison in a separate trial.
“It is arbitrary and inequitable to punish Mr Higgs more severely than the actual killer,” a lawyer had appealed in a plea for clemency addressed to President Trump.
A final bid to halt Higgs’s execution then failed on Friday when the US Supreme Court’s conservative majority voted 6-3 to clear the way the sentence to be carried out.
“This is not justice,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent. “After waiting almost two decades to resume federal executions, the Government should have proceeded with some measure of restraint to ensure it did so lawfully. When it did not, this Court should have. It has not.”
She also listed the names of all 13 executed since July: “To put that in historical context, the Federal Government will have executed more than three times as many people in the last six months that it had in the previous six decades.”
And yet, Dylann Roof, who murdered 9 Black parishioners in a church in South Carolina, is still sitting on federal Death Row, entirely alive.
Hmmmm…I wonder what the difference is?
Cops on TV and cops in real life:
Let’s run with this 1776 nonsense, shall we?