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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.”

    By Otis Sanford November 18, 2021
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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.

    By Otis Sanford November 11, 2021
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    Sanford: Let’s keep partisan politics out of school board races

    ‘It’s too bad Republicans in the state legislature don’t read the election commission web site. They never got the memo about nonpartisanship.’

    By Otis Sanford November 06, 2021
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    Sanford: Frenzied Republicans are playing political games with people’s lives

    Tennessee Republicans have been railing against businesses, local governments and schools for doing everything in their power to control the spread of a virus that has infected 1.2 million Tennesseans and led to more than 16,000 needless deaths.

    By Otis Sanford October 28, 2021
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    Sanford: Colin Powell was America’s moral leader without the title of president

    Otis Sanford: “...while Powell never sought the office himself, he had tremendous influence with voters during tough presidential election years.”

    By Otis Sanford October 21, 2021
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    Sanford: Morgan’s run for county mayor will test his readiness for bare-knuckle partisan politics

    Worth Morgan formally announced Monday, Oct. 11, as a Republican candidate for Shelby County mayor.

    By Otis Sanford October 14, 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?

    By Otis Sanford September 30, 2021
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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.

    By Otis Sanford September 23, 2021
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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. 

    By Otis Sanford September 09, 2021
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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.

    By Otis Sanford September 02, 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.

    By Otis Sanford August 26, 2021
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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?

    By Otis Sanford August 19, 2021
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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.

    By Otis Sanford August 12, 2021
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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.

    By Otis Sanford August 05, 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.

    By Otis Sanford July 29, 2021
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    Opinion: End is near for Nathan Bedford Forrest bust at Capitol

    Forrest believed that the worth of Black people was only as laborers, nothing more.

    By Otis Sanford July 22, 2021
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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.’

    By Otis Sanford July 17, 2021
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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.

    By Otis Sanford July 08, 2021
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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.

    By Otis Sanford July 01, 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.

    By Otis Sanford June 24, 2021
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    Opinion: GOP’s latest push to silence discussion of race wouldn’t sit well with Mom

    Criticize Critical Race Theory if you must. But Republicans cannot legislate away the lasting impact of slavery and racism on American history.

    By Otis Sanford June 17, 2021
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    Opinion: With Confederate monuments gone, racist diatribes follow

    An incident at Health Sciences Park goes beyond one opportunistic racist hothead with more Confederate flags than he has sense. It’s emblematic of the growing white resentment to America’s reckoning with race.

    By Otis Sanford June 08, 2021
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    Opinion: Governor silent about law banning classroom discussion of race

    Gov. Bill Lee signed the bill May 24 without comment. Because what could he really say that makes sense? His first and apparently only attempt to explain the rationale for the law would have been fine for a White Citizens Council meeting in the 1960s.

    By Otis Sanford May 29, 2021
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    Opinion: New Wells documentary speaks to today’s reckoning with race

    Ida B. Wells’ words and actions put to shame efforts by state legislatures today – including ours in Tennessee – to ban the teaching of systemic racism and its detrimental impact on people of color.

    By Otis Sanford May 20, 2021
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    Opinion: Legislature’s rush to end teaching of systemic racism lacked thought and research

    Within the span of about three days, the House and Senate imposed their Caucasian-centered, conservative will on what can and cannot by taught in schools about racism’s sordid history and harmful impact.

    By Otis Sanford May 13, 2021

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