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• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Hard lesson on teaching

  August 2, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 A year or two ago, I received this e-mail. The writer was upset with me for arguing that school principals should have the power to fire teachers who do not … 14

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Choking on baseless fury

  July 26, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 Last week, the conservative outrage machine tried to chew up Shirley Sherrod. You are familiar with that machine if you have access to the Internet or Fox News. As the … 13

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: By-the-Beck education

  July 12, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 A scene from the near future: Augustus Merryweather IV glanced up at the tapping on his office door. Harvey Carbunkle stood there in bow tie and shirt sleeves, smiling eagerly … 3

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: America’s war on black men

  June 28, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 “You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.” – … 2

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Father’s Day story lacks luster

  June 20, 2010 in Opinion on Page B9 This is the 100th commemoration of Father’s Day. You know what that means, don’t you? REALLY nice ties.

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Thomas gets no passes

  June 14, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 Here’s some bitter irony for you. Back in April, I received the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity award. Yes, diversity. And yes, Helen Thomas, the legendary White House correspondent who …

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Baseball worth showing kids

  June 10, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 A few words about the things we seek from baseball. From all sports, really, but from America’s pastime more than most. We seek heroes, of course, men and women who …

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Palin has privacy right

  June 7, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 There goes the neighborhood. We do not know if that was Sarah Palin’s initial response to the news that a journalist writing a book about her had rented the house … 6

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Kids view race through our lens

  May 24, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 Last week, Soledad O’Brien made a young mother cry. It came in the midst of a special series, “Black Or White: Kids on Race” on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.” The … 2

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Hard truths must be told

  May 17, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 History is not a Hallmark card. Sometimes, history breaks your heart.I know this because I have often recounted history in this space, tales of black men and women bought and … 5

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: No freedom without risk

  May 10, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 We always seem surprised.Even after Oct. 1, 1910, when a bomb destroyed the Los Angeles Times building and killed 20 men.

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: An impulsive, shameful law

  May 3, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 If we really wanted immigration reform, we’d have had it years ago.In 2006, President George W. Bush supported a proposal that would’ve required undocumented immigrants to take English classes and … 10

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Betterment takes action

  April 26, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 Call it the myth of inevitability. It is the mindset that says enlightenment and progress are the inescapable byproducts of time. As in a reader who asked last week during …

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: McCain’s integrity has succumbed at last

  April 19, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 We are gathered here today to pay our final respects to John McCain’s integrity. It died recently – turned a triple somersault, stiffened like an exclamation point, fell to the … 10

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Walking for the cure – and for my mother

  April 12, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 “I’m walkin’, yes indeed.” – Fats Domino On April 15, it will be 22 years since she died.

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: The base side of anonymity

  April 5, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 It must have seemed like a great idea at the time. There was this new medium, the Internet, and newspapers were posting stories on it, and someone decided to create … 5

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Ready-made GOP response

  March 29, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 Hi, boys and girls! As a public service, I’ve prepared the following statement for Republican leaders to use when some disgruntled opponent of health care reform injures somebody – or … 38

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Beck’s Bible would be unrecognizable

  March 22, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness …” – Matthew 5:6 Ultimately, I suppose, what we’re talking about is a clash between the sweet by and by and … 2

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Evil comes in all forms

  March 15, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 Evil is not a color. It has no particular religion nor creed, nor style of dress, nor gender nor geographic home. One hopes we learn at least that much from …

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: GOP and the fanatical right

  March 8, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 “At some point, you have to use the word ‘crazy.’ “It will not surprise you to hear that the speaker is referring to extremists within the tea party movement. What … 9

• Obama’s role as First Black

  February 22, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 Jack Roosevelt Robinson had a temper. It flashed like lightning when he was confronted by the racial indignities one was required to endure if one were black in the 1930s …

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: If Sarah runs, we’ll all learn

  February 15, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 Dear Sarah Palin: I hear you’re pondering a run for the White House in 2012. Last week, you told Fox News it would be “absurd” to rule it out. 13

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Fighting for a paradox

  February 8, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 It is the enduring paradox of our centuries here. It is the paradox that stood its ground at Bunker Hill, that made a doomed charge on Fort Wagner, that stormed … 4

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Gun sight codes can’t compare to true faith

  January 25, 2010 in Opinion on Page A7 Have you heard about the Jesus rifles? ABC News broke the story last week. It seems there was this fellow named Glyn Bindon, who used weapons of war to speak … 1

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: The rebirth of hope bodes well for blacks

  January 18, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 One year later. One year after that icy Washington day Barack Obama raised his hand and swore the oath that made him president of the United States, it turns out … 1

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Good riddance to the falling-apart decade

  December 7, 2009 in Opinion on Page A7 A few days from now and not a moment too soon, we say farewell to the Ohs. Once upon a time, it was common to debate names for this first …

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: The color of self-hatred

  November 30, 2009 in Opinion on Page A9 Please indulge me as I answer an e-mail from a guy named Dunbar. It says in part:”Your column on Sammy Sosa’s skin cream use is off base and sends a …

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: 9/11 trials good for America

  November 23, 2009 in Opinion on Page A7 “We (should) wrap him in bacon and deep fry him at a state fair while Lee Greenwood stabs him in the face.” Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” on confessed … 2

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Inconsistencies in life and death

  November 16, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 I kept waiting to feel something when news came that John Allen Muhammad had been executed in Virginia. As a staunch opponent of capital punishment, I wanted some nugget of …

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Honor killing’ an act of cowardice and fear

  November 9, 2009 in Opinion on Page A7 We don’t know why Faleh Hassan Almaleki came to this country in the mid-’90s, and it’s unlikely he’ll be able to tell us anytime soon. He’s in jail in Maricopa …

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