…Are you watching the hearing? Philonise Floyd is speaking right now. He’s got some good ideas….

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The “defunding” campaign is not about abolishing police departments. It’s about building a system with a different, more compassionate mindset. At your meeting yesterday, Livingston County Sheriff, Tony Childress, was alluding to that when he talked about the need for police to be a “friend of the community.”

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… I believe police have a hard job. Sometimes they do it well. Sometimes they don’t. A change might help.

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…Since it’s Sunday, I have to repeat my usual plea to you. Go to church – better yet, join a Zoom worship service. Your buddy, Pastor Darrell Scott is preaching up a storm right now. It’s streaming on You Tube. He’s saying that “you can grow through anything.”…

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..I was relieved to see that your trip to ME yesterday went ok. It always worries me when civilians with automatic weapons claim to be peace keepers. Help me understand how guns keep peace…

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…Even though I love the idea of you spending time with lobster farmers, I encourage you to consider postponing your trip. The Gov is trying to keep the peace & she’s worried that your visit is going to tax the system since protests are popping up around the state….

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Can you believe that Tiananmen Square happened 31 years ago? At the time, I remember thinking, I’m not sure I would be brave enough to stand in front of a tank. I showed that famous image to my students last June & most had not seen it. My students from China were especially interested. When I asked them to what they thought the protesters might be thinking, they had a hard time answering that question….

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I also hope you will call Archbishop Wilton Gregory and apologize for using the SJP2 shrine for your publicity venue yesterday. He’s quite bothered that “any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles, which call us to defend the rights of all people even those with whom we might disagree.”

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…Speaking of Bibles, what was up with that photo of you in front of the Episcopal church yesterday? I’m afraid that gesture turned out all wrong….

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… I have an idea for how you can use your talents to help us heal – heal from the ravages of our new pandemic, CV, and heal from the much older one, racism. Kareen Abdul Jabar (KAJ) wrote that racism is more deadly than CV, and like CV it’s in the air we breathe, “invisible — even if you’re choking on it — until you let the sun in. Then you see it’s everywhere.” …

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When I looked at the photos of the demonstrations in Indianapolis, Denver, Salt Lake, New York, LA & Chicago, I saw faces of all colors. The young folk I saw had phones, not guns. They carried signs and spray paint, using words as their weapons. …

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Dr. May writes, “George Floyd could have been any African American man, including me. Beyond the constant barrage of fear of the negative consequences of birding while black, shopping while black, cooking out while black, exercising while black — it is just exhausting.” Don’t you think it’s time to do something about this?

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… Speaking of problems – I believe that selling arms to your buddy, MBS is a problem. As I’ve told you many times, he is not to be trusted. He is misguided. His most recent mistake involves Saad Aljabri (SBKAJ) & his family….

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…Ashley Parker writing in the WP today …thinks that you should be doing more to show your grief over the loss of 100,000 lives. I encourage you to give Dartmouth Religious Studies Prof. Randall Balmer a call. He has examined how presidents respond to tragedies & can help you understand why tweeting is insufficient for the Consoler in Chief…

…I was very excited to see Tracey Brown (TDB) speaking in the Rose Garden yesterday about the CMMI Demo project to control the price of insulin for Medicare patients. Not only was she wearing a mask, she encouraged you to do more to address our diabetes epidemic….

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