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Tender and Easy Buttermilk Waffles

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“Cinnamon Belgian Waffles I tried several Belgian waffle recipes after getting my iron. In the end, I combined my 1st choice with my husbands favorite to come up with this recipe.”

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Against Endorsements

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The Enduring Solidarity Of Whiteness

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“There have been number of useful entries in the weeks since Senator Bernie Sanders declared himself against reparations. Perhaps the most clarifying comes from Cedric Johnson in a piece entitled, “An Open Letter To Ta-Nehisi Coates And The Liberals Who Love Him.”

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The Case for Considering Reparations

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“A couple of years ago Coates famously wrote an Atlantic article titled “The Case for Reparations,” and after reading it I concluded that he was reticent about reparations too.”

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The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S. – Michael O. Church

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“Typical depictions of social class in the United States posit a linear, ordered hierarchy. I’ve actually come to the conclusion that there are 3 distinct ladders, with approximately four social classes on each.”

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Siderea

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“The US has at least two different systems of what gets termed “socioeconomic class”. They are everywhere conflated, and this is bad. Two of them I will term economic class and social class.”

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Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School

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“Last night Hillary Clinton was asked what president inspired her the most. She offered up Abraham Lincoln, gave a boilerplate reason why, and then said this: You know, he was willing to reconcile and forgive.”

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Bernie Sanders and the Liberal Imagination

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“Last week I critiqued Bernie Sanders for dismissing reparations specifically, and for offering up a series of moderate anti-racist solutions, in general. Some felt it was unfair to single out Sanders given that, on reparations, Sanders’s chief opponent Hillary Clinton holds the same position.”

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Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?

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“No, I don’t think so. First of all, its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil. Second of all, I think it would be very divisive.”

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Bill Cosby and His Enablers

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“Long before the Black Lives Matter movement raised the problem of immoral police (and vigilante) violence, African Americans grappled with its reality and the seemingly impenetrable logic which undergirds it.”