In my opinion
Goofy GOP plans against Obama’s re-election
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
I , too, sing America.
NEWS COLUMNIST
Leonard Pitts Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004. He is the author of the novel, Before I Forget. His column runs every Sunday and Wednesday. Forward From This Moment, a collection of his columns, was released in 2009.
On Sept. 11, 2001, he wrote a column on the terrorist attacks that received a huge response from readers who deluged him with more than 26,000 e-mails. It was posted on the Internet, chain-letter style. Read the column and others on the topic of September 11.
You can also read Pitts' series, What Works?, a series of columns about programs anywhere in the country that show results in improving the lives of black children.
Leonard also wrote the 2008 series I Am A Man, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination.
Email Leonard at lpitts@MiamiHerald.com or visit his website at www.leonardpittsjr.com
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The remote control that revolutionized our ‘fat assets’
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
We are gathered here today to memorialize a man who revolutionized our lives.
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Some harsh sentences prove unjust
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding heart liberal judges with all their soft-headed concern for rights and rehabilitation. And a wave swept this country in the Reagan years, a wave ridden by pundits and politicians seeking power, a wave that said, no mercy, no more.
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Don’t blame the Dems for hyper-partisanship
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
And another one bites the dust.
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Serendipity in Obama’s timing on gay marriage
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
So apparently, Barack Obama is finally done evolving.
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A pertinent question amid U.S. justice system’s revolving door
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
I promised Russell I would ask you something.
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Trayvon ‘killed by a stereotype’
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
I don’t care about George Zimmerman’s MySpace page.
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Lessons from 20th anniversary of Los Angeles riots
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Twenty years ago today, my hometown burned. I had moved to Miami the year before and there is, let me tell you, something surreal about watching on television from a continent away as places you’ve been and streets you know are smashed and burned.
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Hitler comparisons vandalize our national memory
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
John Raese is feeling persecuted.
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‘Prince’ doesn’t guarantee happiness
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Someday, my prince will come. — Snow White, 1937
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If not drug legalization, what, Mr. President?
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
If President Obama had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. So the president famously said.
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Titanic: the moral of a 100-year-old story
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
There is a single shot, just seconds long, in James Cameron’s newly re-released movie, Titanic, that says it all with poignant eloquence.
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About time a GOP politician defended Muslim faith
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Barack Obama himself has never had the guts to say it.
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GOP has embraced extremism as a virtue
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Meet Nathan Fletcher, candidate for mayor of San Diego.
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Don’t rush to judgment in Trayvon case? That’s moral cowardice
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Once upon a time in the late ’90s, a certain black newswoman was awarded her own column. She wrote 12 pieces, three of them about race. That was too many for her boss, who told her to tone it down. Confused, she went to a white colleague for advice. He explained that, being black, she lacked the judgment to decide if a given racial matter merited a column. In the future, he suggested, if she saw some racial issue she thought worth writing about, she should bring it to him and let him decide.
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R-rated column, not suitable for New York’s kids
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Warning: This column contains language some readers may find unsuitable for children. Parental guidance is suggested.
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In Trayvon Martin case, it’s not about the hoodie
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
One month later, some of us fail to understand what this is about. One month later, some of us are using the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to advance their own selfish aims or are throwing up smoke to divert our attention from what matters. One month later, a reminder seems sadly necessary.
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In Trayvon Martin’s death, consider race and privilege
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
I’m here to explain why George Zimmerman is white.
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Bruce Springsteen and the state of our union
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
It begins with big drums, a guitar seesawing beneath like a deck rolling in high seas. It ends with a fuzz of static and feedback, a hiss of promises broken and a mortgage on the future.
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