With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he`s got shelf life like I never would have guessed.
Melissa Harris-PerryThe Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote.
Melissa Harris-PerryTerrifying mass shooting and high-profile officer-involved incidents have dominated the national conversation on gun violence in recent years. But most deaths by gun are not headline-grabbing massacres. They`re more private, more intimate, and perhaps in that way, even more horrifying. Domestic violence, make no mistake, domestic violence is a gun issue.
Melissa Harris-PerryThe land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times weโve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But itโs ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.
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