On Tuesday’s show we discussed CA 25 and the Young Turks’s Cenk Uyger’s entrée in the race, the state and local races as well as progressive propositions that won and failed.
Then, Denise from California and I discuss Steven Miller, the school shooting in Santa Clarita and then the tragic case of Rodney Reed. Reed has been on a Texas death row for decades for murder. The case has racial overtones and got the nation asking the state to free Rodney Reed.
Reed was supposed to be executed yesterday but over the weekend an indefinite stay was granted by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. On today’s blog we will focus squarely on racism and hate in America in 2019. We have spent a lot of time, even this season, discussing discrimination and racism. And we will continue discussing it.
You cannot talk about the evil that caused two young people and the killer to lose they lives in Saugus High in Santa Clarita without discussing the most famous school shooting in Columbine, Colorado.
As mentioned in the podcast, there is a book by David Cullen called Columbine. In it, Cullen takes apart the myths surrounding the school shooters. He uncovers startling facts about the school shooters that, for some reason, has not made it into the mainstream.
Listeners should know we are going to cover the post debate on Monday, after all the talking heads over the weekend have their say. We we enjoy talking about what the commentators over the weekend have to say as much as the debate itself.
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