“Changes in technology come along roughly every five to seven years, so no one can ever have any expectation of permanence in the workplace. People's skills will always need upgrading. But the right kind of education for the twenty-first century is the one that prepares us to weather these changes—and which does so equally, without regard to where we are from or what your parents do.”
― There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
― There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
“Nothing I like to do pays well.”
― True Grit
― True Grit
“Left unchecked, Republican state legislatures will use that power to disenfranchise racial minorities. That’s not a guess; it’s just literally what Republicans already always do whenever given the slightest opportunity. Thanks to John Roberts, they’ll say their maps are “political” gerrymanders: it’s just a coincidence that Black people happen to overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, because Democrats seem to be the only party that can go four years at a stretch without giving aid and comfort to Klansmen.”
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
“Russia is America’s Ghost of Christmas Future, a harbinger of things to come if we can’t adjust course and heal our political polarization.”
― There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
― There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
“Refusing to do your job because the person paying you to do it has different beliefs than you is not a religious objection, it’s plain and simple bigotry.”
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
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