Sanford: Blackburn is on Trump’s VP list, but is the conservative stalwart extreme enough?
News outlets continue to lend credence to Donald Trump’s flirtation with seeking a second term in 2024.
Topic: Otis Sanford
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December 2021
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Sanford: Lang Wiseman was a valuable player in Ford Megasite deal
Lang Wiseman, 50, said his greatest satisfaction in his dual role was his work making the planned Ford truck assembly plant at the Megasite of West Tennessee in Haywood County a reality.
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November 2021
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Sanford: Dr. King’s immortal words are distorted by critical race theory opponents
“It’s easy for (Mississippi Gov. Tate) Reeves and others of his ilk to continually recite Dr. King’s words about content of character and pretend that racism no longer exists.”
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Sanford: Schools are better when we add trust, subtract partisan politics
Quiet as it’s kept, some parents want their children to learn the accurate history of America and the role that race, gender, ethnicity and privilege played in that history.
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September 2021
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Sanford: For Gov. Lee, landing a Ford assembly plant makes his reelection a cinch
The man just brought a Ford assembly plant to the state with more jobs than anyone in this region could have imagined. How can his potential challengers, Republican or Democrat, top that?
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Sanford: Shelby’s 2020 census figures expose stagnation that must be addressed
Shelby may still be the largest of Tennessee’s 95 counties, but it long ago lost the influence and cachet that it once enjoyed statewide.
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Sanford: We can reclaim the unity that followed 9/11
After the most horrific attack on American soil in our lifetime, we stood unified against a common enemy. And, despite our differences today, I believe we can do so again.
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Sanford: COVID-19 has highlighted our many differences, but we can overcome them
So yes, COVID has laid bare our social inequities and made our divisiveness seem irreparable. It is not.
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August 2021
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Sanford: In the battle against COVID, let’s listen to the experts and ignore the nonsense
And now that the Food and Drug Administration has moved the Pfizer vaccine from emergency-use authorization to full approval, I expect to see more employers, public and private, requiring the vaccine as a condition of employment.
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Sanford: Our governor is failing us just when we need leadership the most
How did a seemingly rational, successful, God-fearing businessman – albeit with no previous political or government experience – so easily become a wavering tool of the far right without exhibiting so much as a shred of credible leadership?
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Sanford: Alvin Motley was entitled to freedom too, but was needlessly killed instead
Without question, this is another senseless shooting death that could have been avoided in a number of ways.
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Sanford: 44 years after ‘Roots,’ we still can’t handle the truth about racism and slavery
It remains unclear how far teachers can go in discussing how racial injustice in the past impacts our society today. Republican lawmakers say that discussion is off limits. I say it is necessary.
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July 2021
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Sanford: New Health Department director weathered unnecessary political storm
Otis Sanford says the dispute between Mayor Lee Harris and County Commissioner Mark Billingsley seems to portend the year ahead for politics in Shelby County.
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Food for Thought, gathering for the intellectually hungry, ends after 29 years
‘I started because I was desperate for good conversation,’ Rob Sangster says of the informal salon that provided a forum for discussing topics of importance to Memphis.
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Opinion: A fitting tribute to Ida B. Wells is an end to senseless violence
Otis Sanford: ‘I am calling on all Memphians to honor Wells this week and beyond by committing to help forge a more peaceful city. Deadly gun violence does not have to be just the way it is in the big city.’
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Mississippi congressman right choice to lead insurrection committee
Thompson is not taking on this assignment as a neutral fact-finder. He does not have to be. The House is not a court of law and committee members are not unbiased jurors.
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Opinion: On Memphis roads, fast drivers are making the rest of us furious
Law enforcement is not helpless in trying to curb the lawlessness. But it will take cooperation from all of us who want safer streets and highways.
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June 2021
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Opinion: A politician, a columnist and an attempted meeting of the minds on race
Otis Sanford and Mark White have a friendly, but spirited, showdown over their polar opposite views about how to talk to Tennessee school children about race and racism.
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April 2021
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Opinion: The Chauvin verdict is about more than one bad cop
Derek Chauvin’s conviction should continue the reckoning on race that started after Floyd’s murder shocked the world 11 months ago. A reckoning we have longed for since the night Thomas Moss and his companions were taken out and lynched in Memphis.
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October 2020
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Opinion: Trump fatigue is fueling Shelby’s massive voter turnout
The massive turnout is being driven in large part by the laser-focused desire to get Trump and his enablers out of the White House. But turnout also is being fueled to a lesser degree by Trump supporters.
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Opinion: Implicit bias is real, and we need to continue discussing it
Implicit bias is a thing, and it’s reflected in virtually every aspect of our society. Without meaningful discussions of the issue, in public and private workplaces, we can never fully address the scourge of systemic racism.
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September 2020
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Sanford: Alexander’s flip-flop on confirmation vote should surprise no one
No one should be surprised that Lamar Alexander flip-flopped on Supreme Court nominations. He has morphed over the last 40-plus years into a shameless political partisan, and is content to end his political career that way.
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Opinion: Trump’s vaccine claims are all about politics, not about medical science
President Donald Trump has done next to nothing to engender trust from African Americans. In fact, he’s done the opposite. He lies incessantly and shows an interest in Black people only when it suits him politically.
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August 2020
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Opinion: Anti-protest law misguided, enacted by governor who follows and doesn’t lead
The Republican-controlled state House and Senate – with Gov. Bill Lee as an accomplice – decided to make protesting on state property a felony, punishable by up to six years in prison.
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May 2020
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More than a Memphis treasure, Fred Davis was a ‘good human being’
Fred Davis, a charter member of the Memphis City Council, may have left elected office more than 40 years ago, he never stepped aside.
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