MiamiHerald.com: Leonard Pitts Jr. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Leonard Pitts Jr. http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2013 MiamiHerald.com Leonard Pitts Jr. 60 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00:57 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com <![CDATA[‘Redskins’ is an offensive word, period]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/16/3452113/redskins-is-an-offensive-word.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/16/3452113/redskins-is-an-offensive-word.html Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00 EDT See if this makes sense to you:

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: Conning Americans to give up privacy]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/11/3445890/leonard-pitts-conning-americans.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/11/3445890/leonard-pitts-conning-americans.html Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:44 EDT It will not be with guns.

]]> <![CDATA[Toughing out mental illness not an option]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/09/3439610/toughing-out-mental-illness-not.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/09/3439610/toughing-out-mental-illness-not.html Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00 EDT I cannot write this the way I want. Doing so would invade the privacy of too many people. But I can’t be silent, either.

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: On Obama scandals, GOP needs to take a breath]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/04/3433303/leonard-pitts-on-obama-scandals.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/04/3433303/leonard-pitts-on-obama-scandals.html Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:16 EDT You’d think they’d never seen a scandal before.

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: Exremism, violence come in all shades and colors]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/01/3427001/3-line-hed-goes-here-and-here.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/01/3427001/3-line-hed-goes-here-and-here.html Sat, 01 Jun 2013 21:56 EDT I know this sounds racist, but . . . ”

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: Boy Scouts’ decision shows gay rights are the future]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/29/3421174/leonard-pitts-boy-scouts-decision.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/29/3421174/leonard-pitts-boy-scouts-decision.html Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00 EDT Hold your applause. As milestones go, this one is disappointing.

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: On machete-wielding terrorists in London: Don’t be complicit]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/26/3415308/on-machete-wielding-terrorists.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/26/3415308/on-machete-wielding-terrorists.html Sun, 26 May 2013 00:45 EDT I have not seen the video.

]]> <![CDATA[Why ‘coming out’ matters]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/21/3409198/why-coming-out-matters.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/21/3409198/why-coming-out-matters.html Tue, 21 May 2013 19:10 EDT Mark Carson was shot in the face because he’s gay.

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: On death penalty, wrongly accused are victims, too]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/18/3402949/on-death-penalty-wrongly-accused.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/18/3402949/on-death-penalty-wrongly-accused.html Sat, 18 May 2013 23:00 EDT At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.

]]> <![CDATA[Just bad judgment, or something worse?]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/14/3397333/just-bad-judgment-or-something.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/14/3397333/just-bad-judgment-or-something.html Tue, 14 May 2013 16:55 EDT

Well, this is a fine mess.

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: On guns and the Great American Panic Machine]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/11/3391536/on-guns-and-the-great-american.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/11/3391536/on-guns-and-the-great-american.html Sat, 11 May 2013 22:54 EDT It should’ve been the shot heard around the world. Chances are, you didn’t hear it.

]]> <![CDATA[Pennsylvania woman ran to Key West — where else?]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/07/3385623/pennsylvania-woman-ran-to-key.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/07/3385623/pennsylvania-woman-ran-to-key.html Tue, 07 May 2013 17:32 EDT

Brenda Heist wanted to run away from life. Naturally, she went to Key West.

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: Texas case exposes racial bias in death penalty for Duane Buck]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/05/3381274/leonard-pitts-texas-case-exposes.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/05/3381274/leonard-pitts-texas-case-exposes.html Sun, 05 May 2013 00:35 EDT If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it’ll be because he is black.

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Collins breaks barriers coming out with a boom!]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/30/3373314/jason-collins-breaks-barriers.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/30/3373314/jason-collins-breaks-barriers.html Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:05 EDT

Boom.

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: Reese Witherspoon’s bratty question: Do you know who I am?]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/27/3366936/reese-witherspoons-bratty-question.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/27/3366936/reese-witherspoons-bratty-question.html Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:15 EDT This is for the rest of us.

]]> <![CDATA[On hate mail and the state of the Union]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/23/3360622/on-hate-mail-and-the-state-of.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/23/3360622/on-hate-mail-and-the-state-of.html Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00 EDT

Ordinarily, I’d thank you for writing.

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: Rand Paul’s ‘outreach’ at Howard University a missed opportunity]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/21/3354037/rand-pauls-outreach-at-howard.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/21/3354037/rand-pauls-outreach-at-howard.html Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:15 EDT Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that’s how he remembers it.

]]> <![CDATA[Americans stand defiant with Boston]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/16/3347857/americans-stand-defiant-with-boston.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/16/3347857/americans-stand-defiant-with-boston.html Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:00 EDT

Shortly after the explosions, there appeared on the website of The Boston Globe a video of the moment. Runners in the city’s iconic marathon are jogging across the finish line and everyone is cheering, when there is a clap of thunder and an orange bloom of fire from within a ring of flags honoring the nations represented in the race. It is followed, seconds later, by another blast from just down the street. The cheers become shrieks, falsetto shrills of panic and fear and the videographer carries you forward, to where the smoke is drifting and police, runners and bystanders rip barricades apart trying to reach the epicenter of chaos.

]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Pitts: Brad Paisley’s ‘Accidental Racist’ not honest]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/13/3340702/brad-paisleys-accidental-racist.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/13/3340702/brad-paisleys-accidental-racist.html Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:41 EDT There are many things to say about Brad Paisley’s new song.

]]> <![CDATA[A guy-to-guy chat with Obama over ‘best looking’ Attorney General]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/09/3332782/a-guy-to-guy-chat-with-president.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/09/3332782/a-guy-to-guy-chat-with-president.html Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:36 EDT

Dear Barry:

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