St. Louis student can't return to school because he's black - NY Daily News

A third-grader from St. Louis was told he couldn’t return to his elementary school next year—because he’s black.



Edmund Lee’s family will be moving from inside St. Louis city limits to a new suburban school district and, when they asked if the boy could still attend his school after the move, they were refused due to a twisted application of a decades-old state desegregation law forbidding black students from going to city schools.



“It was surprising to me to have on a piece of paper that he couldn’t attend because he was an African American and if he was another race he could,” LaShieka White, Edmond’s mother, told the Daily News.



The 1980 U.S. Court of Appeals law that will prevent Edmond, 9, from returning to the city charter school, Gateway Science Academy, was created with good intentions.



The desegregation law was supposed to diversify both the city schools, which were in poor condition and predominantly black, as well as the suburban schools, in better condition and predominantly white.



But in the case of Edmond’s school, which is roughly 80 percent white, this particular application of the law will actually have the inverse effect by barring a black student.



Edmond Lee, 9, won't be able to return to his charter school inside St. Louis city limits next year because he's black.



Edmond Lee, 9, won't be able to return to his charter school inside St. Louis city limits next year because he's black.

St. Louis student can't return to school because he's black - NY Daily News

Donald Trump supporters push and shove young black woman as protesters are thrown out of rally in Kentucky | Americas | News | The Independent

Donald Trump supporters push and shove young black woman as protesters are thrown out of rally in Kentucky | Americas | News | The Independent

The cold, hard truth: it's game over for Bernie Sanders | Richard Wolffe | Opinion | The Guardian

This is the reality I predicted weeks ago.  It is all but over.  Sanders is finished.  He lost Blacks not by "nostalgia" as you said (more liberal condescension) but by campaigning on a rehash of thirties leftist rhetoric that failed us in the 1930s with FDR, failed us in the 1960s with the Great Society.  Our needs and history are different from poor and working class whites.  Our problem is caste not class.  Sanders refused to recognize that.  Clinton gave voice to the nature of the American caste system.  The questions is can we trust her to do what is necessary when the chips are down or will she , like her husband ending up siding with the status quo even if it means creating a new kind of caste system like the "Prison Industrial Complex" which she and her husband were central in creating.  I like her message.  I am fearful of her commitment to break with the powers that maintain America's racial and class stratification.



"It’s time for some cold hard truths in this presidential election.

Here’s an ice cold one: winning a landslide victory in the mighty state of Vermont is not a foundation for success. Especially if Vermont has been your home since the Jurassic age of politics.

Here’s another: if you hold a victory rally before most of the states have been called, you’re not fooling anyone. When your victorious supporters have emptied the hall before the TV pundits have barely warmed up, you’re actually throwing a consolation party."

The cold, hard truth: it's game over for Bernie Sanders | Richard Wolffe | Opinion | The Guardian

Hillary Clinton’s Moment - The New York Times

You can look at Hillary Clinton’s path to this juncture and marvel at how difficult she has often made things for herself, creating messes where there didn’t need to be any, frittering away advantages, misunderstanding the mood of voters, underestimating the mettle of opponents, and failing to cement an image — and a message — that seemed authentic and right.



That’s a legitimate perspective. She’s a deeply flawed politician.



But she’s also a preternaturally determined, resourceful and patient one. Her path illustrates that just as compellingly. For about a quarter of a century, she has been vilified as loudly as she has been lionized, told that her talents pale beside her husband’s, called “likable enough” but seldom lovable, and cast in supporting roles: the first lady, the secretary of state.



She never retreated. Never gave up.



And as the returns from Super Tuesday came in, nudging her closer to the Democratic nomination, I realized that we weren’t just seeing greater clarity in a messy race for the White House and the possible approach of history: a first-ever major-party female presidential nominee.



We were seeing the vindication of a fortitude and fierceness that warrant as much notice as her less savory qualities.



She notched important wins on Tuesday in Massachusetts, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas and Alabama, echoing her triumph in South Carolina on Saturday.



Let’s give her this moment, because she fought her way here. She tuned out the naysayers. She turned a blind eye to all her scars. Her ability to do that may reflect unrestrained ambition, a sturdy confidence in her mission or — more likely — an intricate cat’s cradle of both. Whichever the case, it demonstrates a grit that could be her greatest asset in a general election.



Hillary Clinton’s Moment - The New York Times

Minority Voters Push Hillary Clinton to Victories - The New York Times

Hillary Clinton took full command of the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday as she rolled to major victories over Bernie Sanders in Texas, Virginia and across the South and proved for the first time that she could build a national coalition of racially diverse voters that would be crucial in the November election.

Based on results from Democratic primaries and caucuses in 11 states, Mrs. Clinton succeeded in containing Mr. Sanders to states he was expected to win, like Vermont and Oklahoma, and overpowering him in predominantly black and Hispanic areas that were rich in delegates needed for the Democratic nomination.

Mrs. Clinton, who also won Massachusetts and showed notable strength among Southern white voters, came away with a strong delegate lead over Mr. Sanders — notably larger than the one that Barack Obama had over her at this point in the 2008 presidential race.

Minority Voters Push Hillary Clinton to Victories - The New York Times

Pocket: Donald Trump Overwhelms G.O.P. Rivals From Alabama to Massachusetts

Donald J. Trump won sweeping victories across the South and in New England on Tuesday, a show of strength in the Republican primary campaign that underscored the breadth of his appeal and helped him begin to amass a wide delegate advantage despite growing resistance to his candidacy among party leaders.



Mr. Trump’s political coalition — with his lopsided victories in Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts and Tennessee, and narrower ones in Arkansas, Vermont and Virginia — appears to have transcended the regional and ideological divisions that have shaped the Republican Party in recent years.



With strong support from low-income white voters, especially those without college degrees, he dominated in moderate, secular-leaning Massachusetts just as easily as he did in the conservative and heavily evangelical Deep South.





Pocket: Donald Trump Overwhelms G.O.P. Rivals From Alabama to Massachusetts

Fact check: Trump’s David Duke amnesia

Fact check: Trump’s David Duke amnesia

Black students ejected from Trump rally in Ga. Kicked out for being Black at their own school. No other reason. The administration did not claim any other reason.

Black students ejected from Trump rally in Ga.

Inside the Clinton Team’s Plan to Defeat Donald Trump

Inside the Clinton Team’s Plan to Defeat Donald Trump

"But others, including former President Bill Clinton, dismissed those conclusions as denial. They said that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood and that only a concerted campaign portraying him as dangerous and bigoted would win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election.

That strategy is beginning to take shape, with groups that support Mrs. Clinton preparing to script and test ads that would portray Mr. Trump as a misogynist and an enemy to the working class whose brash temper would put the nation and the world in grave danger. The plan is for those themes to be amplified later by two prominent surrogates: To fight Mr. Trump’s ability to sway the news cycle, Mr. Clinton would not hold back on the stump, and President Obama has told allies he would gleefully portray Mr. Trump as incapable of handling the duties of the Oval Office."