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Of the remaining GOP candidates challenging the former POTUS for the nomination, only one of them is willing to call him out on his record and legal issues. Former Gov. Chris Christie who at one time was a loyal ally to the former POTUS is the only candidate who seems unafraid to oppose him. Watching the debate is funnier than some TV shows and movies. These clown characters are wasting a whole lot of money In a losing effort. The former POTUS is leaving the clowns in the dust. I don't think he would even ask any those candidates to be his VP running mate or cabinet level positions.

@ProfD Your post is super hilarious, ProfD. I wish we had a heart emoji.

Yeah, running mates shall materialize when they see the credentials of Don the Con ...

I bet those good Afroamericans in the South didn't allow you to go anywhere near the racists. Southern Black folks are conditioned from birth to either avoid or know how to deal with racists when encountered. It's urban raised AfroAmericans like myself who go down South with a swagger that puts everybody on notice that 1) I'm not from down there and 2) I don't give a f8ck about racist white folks.

Agreed. He couldn't miss afterward. Drove that train straight through a town called success.

@ProfD I believe Norman Lear receives outsized respect for his memory due to "All in the Family." That was the beginning of his gaining fame. @Pioneer1 Comedy writer Saul Turtletab passed away in April 2020. He was a great writer. While he worked on Sanford and Son, he also wrote for What's Happening and the "Mary Tyler Moore Show."

From Nathan McCall’s article linked above: I have come to accept that, while America is my homeland, it’s also been my fiercest enemy. In a country that brags about its greatness and exceptionalism, much of what I’ve achieved has been despite — not because of — the system. I hear Nathan but I disagree. I worked in corporate America long enough to see white folks who are less qualified, than their black peers, and be advanced more frequently and be paid more. I also noticed that Black people are usually more impeccably credentialed than their white peers. I’ve worked with ignorant, mildly racist, white people, and I’ve worked with some really decent ones. I would argue. I’ve been held back by some and advanced by others. Every Wall Street job I’ve gotten has been through a white connection. I seriously doubt that an ex con like Nathan McCall has gotten to where he is without the help of a few halfway decent white people. I argue strongly even that much of his success is because of the system. The Salon was a bit more nuanced as illustrated by the quote below: The truth is that both stories are real, and they have coexisted—albeit uneasily. This kind of truth can be difficult to assimilate. It does not fit with a portrait of American history as the story of freedom. Neither does it jibe with an understanding of America as the story of oppression. The larger tale weaves together these warring strands—it is a story befitting a nation that boasts an African American president as well as staggering racial and economic inequality. I grew up in the north, and heard all the stories about the deep racism in the south, the segregation, and all of that. I grew up in New York City and was educated in completely segregated schools. In stark contrast, my cousins, in the south, went to integrated schools. I used to marvel at the fact that in grade school they knew white people. In fact, the first white people I met as a kid were the ones my cousins introduced me to in the south. I did not meet or attend school with a white person until I was in high school and that was largely because I went to magnet school that you had to take a test to get into. If I went to my zoned high school it would’ve been more of the same poor and wrong class black and Puerto Rican kids. The police were never our friends. Our communities were never serviced properly, dirty, and rundown. The south for me was arguably less racist and cleaner. I also worked in corporate environments in the deep south and in the north, and I found the north to be more oppressive than the south.

@richardmurray, the Harlem Fete generally caps the year for me when it comes to the Black book world. it takes place in NYC. I'll email details.