Love of country

Barack Obama gives one of the all-time great patriotic orations on the 50th anniversary of the Selma march for voting rights.

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On the 50th anniversary of the Selma march for voting rights, Barack Obama gives one of the all-time great patriotic orations.

“That’s what it means when we say that America is exceptional.”


 

Take your pick, friends. Stand with the President on the side of  John Lewis, or stand with the Republicans on the Supreme Court  and in Congress on the side of Sheriff  Clark. That (among other things) is what the election of 2016 is about.

 

Author: Mark Kleiman

Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out. Books: Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken) When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993) Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989) UCLA Homepage Curriculum Vitae Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com

3 thoughts on “Love of country”

  1. I loved the line: "They marched as Americans who had endured hundreds of years of brutal violence, and countless daily indignities… " Black West African-Americans were Americans while they were still slaves, indeed before the colonies declared independence. They didn't become Americans at the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment. Freedom is a prize not an origin.

  2. "not stock photos or airbrushed history, defining some of us as more American than others"

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