Professor: GOP Selma Message Was That Blacks ‘Are Not Our People’

March 9th, 2015 1:15 PM
For the University of Chicago’s Harold Pollack, this past weekend’s commemoration yielded a “fairly astonishing” juxtaposition of President Obama’s “largeness of spirit” and Republican apathy, or worse. In a Washington Monthly blog post, Pollack argued that the low GOP turnout for “an event sacred to African-Americans sent an unavoidable message: These are not our people...Such discomfort with a…

Time's Tumulty Points Readers to Scholar Who Suggests ObamaCare Oppone

August 5th, 2009 1:54 PM
In a one-line blog post, "Health Reform: Euthanasia and Other Rumors," Time magazine's Karen Tumulty pointed readers to a blog post at The New Republic's Web site set on "Exposing the Euthanasia Scare" that has cropped up in the debate over health care reform:Harold Pollack dispenses with them (and their sources) here.Tumulty failed to mention the liberal bent of either TNR or Dr. Pollack (Ph.D…