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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Another mass shooting, a nation on tenterhooks

Posted 9/11/2019 in National Columns

In 1879, on the road leading into Dodge City, there stood a sign. "The Carrying of Fire Arms Strictly Prohibited," it said. As recounted in the book "Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America" by Adam Winkler, the gun control ordinance was the first law passed when the city was organized in 1873. Nor was Dodge unique. Many other western towns, Wichita and Tombstone among them, had similar laws.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: 'I am tired of the dying'

Posted 9/4/2019 in National Columns

"I am tired of the dying," said Greg Abbotton Sunday. And well he should be. The Texas governor was in Odessa, in the western part of his state, to preside over a mass shooting there: seven dead, not counting the shooter, and 22 wounded, one of them a toddler.

Leonard Pitts: Trump's anti-journalism hit squad

Posted 8/28/2019 in National Columns

"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?

Posted 8/26/2019 in National Columns

We meet, my friends, in the face of evil.

Leonard Pitts: The notion that education is the enemy

Posted 8/21/2019 in National Columns

You'd think it would be the one thing we could all agree upon.

Leonard Pitts Jr: The 'peculiar institution' is no artifact of the dead past

Posted 8/17/2019 in National Columns

Perhaps you've heard of white fragility. The term was popularized by sociologist Robin DiAngelo in her 2018 book of the same name that seeks to explain why white people often find it so hard to discuss race, why the subject frequently makes them angry and defensive. Well, a textbook example of that fragility recently roiled social media.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Jeffrey Epstein didn't commit suicide

Posted 8/14/2019 in National Columns

Jeffrey Epstein didn't commit suicide. He was murdered by Hillary and/or Bill Clinton. Or he was assassinated by the Russians. Or Donald Trump killed him. Or he isn't dead at all, having been spirited into the Witness Protection Program, where he presumably now shares an island mansion with Tupac Shakur and 84-year-old Elvis Presley.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Trump framing election as a referendum on white people

Posted 8/6/2019 in National Columns

If you are a regular here, you may have heard this story before. But it bears repeating. In 1958, George Wallace ran for governor of Alabama against John Patterson, a fire-breathing segregationist. Wallace, though also a segregationist, was considered enough of a racial moderate to be endorsed by the NAACP.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: It never should have come to this

Posted 7/30/2019 in National Columns

"Hold tight to your anger, don't fall to your fears." Bruce Springsteen, "Wrecking Ball" It never should have come to this.

Leonard Pitts: Is the GOP a hate group?

Posted 7/22/2019 in National Columns

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

Posted 7/16/2019 in National Columns

A man named Josef Buzhminski told this story at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

Leonard Pitts: Opening up to women's stories

Posted 7/11/2019 in National Columns

A few words about my sexism.

Leonard Pitts: What would you give to save your world?

Posted 6/5/2019 in National Columns

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: In letting fake Pelosi video stand, Facebook shows its true colors

Posted 6/2/2019 in National Columns

The truth is dead, and Facebook killed it.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Madame Speaker, it's time for us to save ourselves

Posted 5/25/2019 in National Columns

"I pray for the president of the United States. And I pray for the United States of America." -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Leonard Pitts: The Republican Party working to repeal the 20th century

Posted 5/23/2019 in National Columns

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 Jr.: People are dying for nothing

Posted 5/14/2019 in National Columns

"You don't have to be the hero." That, John Castillo told NBC News Wednesday, is something he had advised his 18-year-old son, Kendrick. If ever a shooter invades your school, son, don't try to confront him, don't take the risk. But Castillo said Kendrick had other ideas, telling his dad that he would not hesitate to defend other people's lives.