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- Kamala Harris assails president’s ‘reckless disregard’ for American people
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11.25am BST
James Oliphant at Reuters offers an analysis of what the RNC taught us this week about the Republican strategy for November.
He writes that Donald Trump used all of his reality-show talents to try to win back supporters alienated by his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. He desperately needs to change the subject from a pandemic that has killed 180,000 Americans and shackled the US economy, and find a way to blame Democrats for the violence on the streets.
11.17am BST
A number of athletes went on strike over racial injustice, and refused to participate in the NBA, baseball, tennis and MLS this week. We’ve got a piece this morning from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explaining how these actions have rekindled hope. Abdul-Jabbar boycotted the 1968 Olympics himself as a protest against discrimination in the US. He writes:
The popularity of the Black Lives Matter movement that swept through America this summer after the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd stoked hope inside us into a small but powerful sun.
Then this week, a black man, Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in the back by police, a 17-year-old was charged with murder after two men were killed at a subsequent protests, and the Republican National Convention featured speakers who, instead of voicing outrage over systemic racism and vowing to end it, complained about the audacity of ungrateful black people protesting that their husbands, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers were being murdered by police while president Trump and the GOP conspired to take away their right to vote.
Related: Hope is a dying ember for black people in the US. Athletes have rekindled it
Continue reading…At RNC Trump paints Biden as ‘radical’ candidate and danger to USKamala Harris assails president’s ‘reckless disregard’ for American people‘Devastation everywhere’: Louisiana city wakes up to storm’s aftermath1,124 new coronavirus deaths and 45,561 new cases in US yesterdaySign up for our First Thing newsletter 11.25am BSTJames Oliphant at Reuters offers an analysis of what the RNC taught us this week about the Republican strategy for November.He writes that Donald Trump used all of his reality-show talents to try to win back supporters alienated by his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. He desperately needs to change the subject from a pandemic that has killed 180,000 Americans and shackled the US economy, and find a way to blame Democrats for the violence on the streets. 11.17am BSTA number of athletes went on strike over racial injustice, and refused to participate in the NBA, baseball, tennis and MLS this week. We’ve got a piece this morning from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explaining how these actions have rekindled hope. Abdul-Jabbar boycotted the 1968 Olympics himself as a protest against discrimination in the US. He writes:The popularity of the Black Lives Matter movement that swept through America this summer after the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd stoked hope inside us into a small but powerful sun.Then this week, a black man, Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in the back by police, a 17-year-old was charged with murder after two men were killed at a subsequent protests, and the Republican National Convention featured speakers who, instead of voicing outrage over systemic racism and vowing to end it, complained about the audacity of ungrateful black people protesting that their husbands, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers were being murdered by police while president Trump and the GOP conspired to take away their right to vote. Related: Hope is a dying ember for black people in the US. Athletes have rekindled it Continue reading…