Daily Topics - Tuesday July 7th, 2015
By shawnt56
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Hour One: Is It Time To Let Go of the South Or Restart Reconstruction?
Hour Two: Greece...It's Not A Crisis, It's A Revolution
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#2
I'm very surprised to hear that Colorado has no non-white elected prosecutors. The only prosecutor I ever met was black, though he wasn't in an elected position.
#3
I don't know what this caller is talking about when he says the mayors of cities where cops shoot black people are always Democrats.
The mayor of Ferguson, MO, since 2011 is James Knowles III, a former chairman of the Missouri Young Republicans.
I can't even find out the party of mayor Keith Summey of North Charleston, where Walter Scott was killed. City Council elections are usually non-partisan, so that's to be expected. But it makes me wonder how the caller "knows" this type of information.
#4
The difference with the U.S. saying the Cuban people shouldn't have to pay the debts of their rulers in 1898 is that those rulers were the Spaniards, not the politicians of Cuba. It's not the same as the Greeks dealing with Greek debt or Americans dealing with U.S. debt. I.e., Greece is not seceding from Greece, as Cuba seceded (forcefully) from Spain.
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The election of Hayes vs. Tilden did not go to the House of Representatives. Only those two people got electoral votes, and since the total was an odd number, one of them got a majority.
What did happen, however, is that corrupt Republicans threw out votes in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida, in order to steal the election from Tilden, who still had a majority of the popular votes after all that. (The unit rule used to determine states' electoral votes really screwed things up there.)