claudine gay. she wrote an essay in the new york times today, and i want to share just one quote from it where she writes, at tense moments, every one of us must be more skeptical than ever of the loudest and most extreme voices in our culture. however well organized or well connected they might be, too often they are pursuing self serving agendas that should be met with more questions. how should harvard deal with these loud voices? many of these voices that were calling for her resignation have absolutely nothing to do with harvard university. and this is really the essential question, staff. how do you move forward as an institution dedicated to the pursuit of truth, but that also in the pursuit of truth has to acknowledge uncertainty when other people aren t making simplistic, bad faith arguments that attempt to smear your credibility? and so, to me, the thing that is really challenging is, a lot of people who hear these arguments identify that people
significant case in the united states history, it is up there with dread scott, up there with brown versus board of education. this goes to the essential question of who we are as a people, do we let someone, the president, act in this way and that s why going to your question about the detail, why is the detail so important? because jack smith has to do two things, and he has to do them unproved under the highest standard of the law, which is all against him calledont a reasonable doubt. he has to prove two things to a jury of 12 people. he has to prove, one, that donald trump committed a bad criminal act that he conspired, he agreed to try and overturn the election, to interfere with the election results to obstruct the counting of the votes on
that is the best case terrible scenario. the worst-case terrible scenario is that alabama republicans are just deciding they do not recognize the authority of the federal government in federal court. and that of course brings back all sorts of bad memories of what alabama is capable of. but what we are about to have a presidential election in which the essential question is likely to be whether or not we as a country follow the law, whether the law applies to everyone. this is a particularly incendiary move by alabama republicans. one alabama democrats like the state rep chris england have been raising the alarm about. one thing i always say about alabama, it continues to be the place where the dead buried a living. where we are haunted by ghosts of the past. and every time we get to a critical juncture. where are angels could lead us,
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george floyd and the black lives matter movement in america. we have seen scenes like this time and time again and have had about these issues time and time again. the one thing that we are hearing here at the bbc from a lot of people, a lot of analysts and experts, is that the french government seem resistant to tackle the issue that many of these people are angry about. why is that? that is the million dollar question. it is an essential question. what is clear, is that there are statistics showing this as a problem. maybe not as many statistics as we have in the united states are in the uk, the government has plans on collecting certain types of data, most data, really, and ethnicity. so, it is difficult to trace this, but let me give you one number very quickly. in 2017, the defender of the civil rights ombudsman found that young black men and men of north african