Leonard Pitts Jr.: Dr. Seuss has not been ‘canceled’
No, Dr. Seuss hasn’t been “canceled.” Granted, you’d never know it from the ruckus that erupted after Theodor Seuss Geisel’s estate decided to stop publishing six lesser-known titles by the celebrated children’s book author because they contained offensive racial stereotypes.
Leonard Pitts: Democrats must plant their feet, make a stand
Here’s some advice for Democrats. It will run over 600 words, but I can give you the gist of it in two: Stop whining.
Leonard Pitts: If we can’t be free within ourselves, then we cannot be free
“If you’re white, you’re all right. If you’re brown, stick around. If you’re black, get back.” — African-American folk saying I was about to give
Leonard Pitts: How the times have changed
You may, if you are old enough, recall a TV actor named Foster Brooks.
Leonard Pitts: We are living the fable of the emperor’s new clothes
If you’re going to lie, make it a good one.
Leonard Pitts: Trump’s anti-journalism hit squad
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
So says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare’s “Henry VI, Part 2.”
Leonard Pitts: Cruelty is the point, but is it evil?
We meet, my friends, in the face of evil.
Leonard Pitts: The notion that education is the enemy
You’d think it would be the one thing we could all agree upon.
Leonard Pitts: Is the GOP a hate group?
Here’s how The Southern Poverty Law Center defines a hate group.
It is, they say, “an organization that — based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities — has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.”
Leonard Pitts: Failure to stand up for the truth, suggests not an open mind but an empty one
A man named Josef Buzhminski told this story at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Leonard Pitts: Opening up to women’s stories
A few words about my sexism.
Leonard Pitts: What would you give to save your world?
Elmo Cook knew nothing about it.
He’d heard the sirens in the middle of the night alerting all of Abilene that something had happened, but when he tried to turn on the radio, he found that his power was out. And when he left for work in the morning, the paperboy had not yet made his rounds.
Leonard Pitts: The Republican Party working to repeal the 20th century
The Republican Party’s appeal, it has occasionally been argued in this space, stems largely from an implicit promise: Vote for us and we will repeal the 20th century.
Leonard Pitts: The man of 10,000 lies
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the referees.”
Admittedly, that is not quite how the famous line from Shakespeare’s “Henry VI” goes.
Leonard Pitts: Don’t evangelicals ever get tired of being wrong?
At least Judas got 30 pieces of silver. Franklin Graham got a tax cut and the promise of a border wall.
Leonard Pitts: No more wishy-washy feelings about impeaching Trump
I’ll admit that I’ve been wishy-washy about this.
Leonard Pitts: Intolerance has no greater champion than Trump
And what will you say afterward, America?
Leonard Pitts: Baloney is not free
Baloney is not free.
That’s important to keep in mind in an era that finds America wading hip deep in a cascading tide of bovine effluvium.
Leonard Pitts: ‘We are Americans first’
It felt, with apologies to Yogi Berra, like “deja vu all over again.”
Leonard Pitts: ‘This is the price of freedom’
Originally, this was going to be a column about Sydney Aiello. She was 19 years old, a graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida, and she was buried Friday after committing suicide.