Archive for 2021

It doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about ministers, lawyers or politicians, people say things that are either stunningly tone deaf or stunningly brazen or just plain dumb. Here are some examples.

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“It’s important that he thinks you’re hot.”

            –Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark, in his sermon at the First General Baptist Church in Malden, Mo., about how married women “let themselves go.” [March 9, 2021]  

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“Because it puts us at a competitive disadvantage relative to Democrats. Politics is a zero-sum game.”

            –Arizona Attorney ...

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump asked Black Americans why they support the Democratic Party: “Look how much African American communities have suffered under Democratic control. . . . What do you have to lose by trying something new, like Trump? … You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs. … What the hell do you have to lose?”

It was a brazen challenge. Of course, as it turns out, Trump did little to improve ...