John Kerry: Trump victory could provoke a revolution
Former Secretary of State John Kerry raised the possibility that a victory by President Trump could provoke a revolution in the United States, claiming that Republicans have a history of denying voting rights to Democratic voters. “If people don't have adequate access to the ballot, I mean that's the stuff on which revolutions are built,” Kerry said during a virtual appearance at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit. “If you begin to deny people the capacity of your democracy to work, even the Founding Fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, we have an inherent right to challenge that. And I'm worried that increasingly, people are disaffected." Kerry implied that such chicanery contributed to his defeat in 2004 and former Vice President Al Gore’s loss in 2000, maintaining that this pattern unfolded recently in Georgia — an apparent reference to Stacey Abrams’s defeat in the state’s 2018 gubernatorial race. That history, as he views it, undermines U.S. claims to Western leadership. “We're not meeting the standard that we ought to be meeting, so I'm deeply concerned about protecting the vote,” he said.
Kerry didn’t mention Republicans explicitly, but he maintained that there was a history of "certain officials of a particular party purposefully [making] it difficult for the other party to vote where they control those matters.” He predicted that Trump would lose handily but warned that Republicans would "pull out every stop" in the closing weeks of the race. And yet, Kerry remains optimistic about the outcome. “I'm going to continue to believe this election will not be close, we'll have a mandate in America,” he said. “And if it is close, we'll just have to deal with whatever the circumstances are at that time. Hopefully, we've laid enough groundwork, the legal barrier, that we will be well prepared."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/john-kerry-trump-victory-could-provoke-a-revolution
Trump to renew effort to end legal protections for DACA recipients
President Trump said he would again try to end protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients after the Supreme Court blocked him from ending the program. “We will be submitting enhanced papers shortly in order to properly fulfil [sic] the Supreme Court’s ruling & request of yesterday,” Trump tweeted Friday, blaming Democrats for not making a deal with him to protect the young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally. Trump did not give specifics about what will be different in his renewed push to end the legal protections that shield the immigrants from deportation.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Obama-era program should stay in place. The decision did not say Trump lacks the power to disband the program for DACA recipients but rejected the way the administration tried to end it. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's four liberal judges, who agreed the administration's attempt to dismantle the program violated the Administrative Procedure Act. In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked the Department of Homeland Security to wind down the program over the course of six months on the basis that it "was effectuated by the previous administration through executive action, without proper statutory authority and with no established end-date” after Congress failed to pass legislation that would have protected DACA recipients. Nearly 800,000 young immigrants are protected under the program.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-to-renew-effort-to-end-legal-protections-for-daca-recipients
Chick-fil-A CEO: White people should show their 'sense of shame' for racism by shining black people's shoes
Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy said during a church service that one way white people can atone for racism is to shine the shoes of black people to show their “shame.” "Most of us white people, we're 'out of sight, out of mind' oblivious to it," Cathy said on Sunday. "We cannot let this moment pass." Cathy, who was speaking at Atlanta’s Passion City Church, told a story about a young man who was “gripped with conviction about the racism that was happening” in his small Texas town and inspired him to kneel before a black man and shine his shoes. Cathy said that “tears began to flow” when that young man told his story at a church service. "So, I invite folks to just put some words to action here," Cathy said as he stood up and walked over toward rapper Lecrae with a shoe brush in hand and knelt in front of him before brushing his shoes. "If we need to find somebody that needs to have their shoes shined, we just need to go right on over and shine their shoes, and whether they got tennis shoes on or not, maybe they got sandals on, it really doesn't matter. But there's a time at which we need to have, you know, some personal action here. Maybe we need to give them a hug, too." Cathy then held up his brush and said, "I bought about 1,500 of these, and I gave them to all of our Chick-fil-A operators and staff a number of years ago. And so any expressions of a contrite heart, of a sense of humility, a sense of shame, a sense of embarrassment, but yet with an apologetic heart, I think that's what our world needs to hear today."
Chick-fil-A announced this week it is donating $5 million in grants to black nonprofit organizations. “The recent highly publicized and horrific deaths of black men and women have rocked our nation and shed light on the injustice, systemic racism, and disparities that black people endure daily,” Rodney Bullard, vice president of corporate social responsibility for Chick-fil-A, said about the move. “As a company, we are making a pledge to take action against racial injustice. The True Inspiration Awards have always been a platform to give back locally where our restaurants serve, and by redirecting our grants to organizations supporting communities of color, we believe we can make an impact.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/chick-fil-a-ceo-white-people-should-show-their-sense-of-shame-for-racism-by-shining-black-peoples-shoes