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British Prime Minister David Cameron called Emerson an “idiot.” A French program in the mold of Last week, Fox did something Fox almost never does.

Write to him at lpitts@miamiherald.com. Leonard Pitts, Jr. 1957— Columnist. One hopes they resolve to double check their registration and polling locations ahead of time, to charge their devices, wear comfortable clothing, bring snacks, water, lawn chairs, umbrellas, a good book, whatever the wait requires.The bottom line: There are more of us than there are of them. I am often asked by readers interested in gaining a better basic understanding of racial issues and/or African-American history if I will compile a reading list for them. It’s amazing, the things you can get used to, that can come to seem normal. Fox is, after all, the network of death panels, terrorist fist jabs, birtherism, anchor babies, victory mosques, wars on Christmas and Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. I am often asked by readers interested in gaining a better basic understanding of racial issues and/or African-American history if I will compile a reading list for them. From 1965 until 2013, such voters were protected from this kind of thing by the Voting Rights Act. In America, it has come to seem normal that a major news organization functions as the propaganda arm of an extremist political ideology, that it spews a constant stream of racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, paranoia and manufactured outrage, and that it does so with brazen disregard for what is factual, what is right, what is fair, what is balanced — virtues that are supposed to be the sine qua non of anything calling itself a newsroom.If you live with aberrance long enough, you can forget it’s aberrance. And in Texas, according to a report from the Leadership Conference Education Fund, they’ve closed 750 polling places since 2013 — more than any other state — so that now voters like Rogers must pass an endurance test simply to exercise a constitutional right.Yes, local officials claim the delay was actually due to higher than expected turnout, voting machine breakdowns and a new polling system. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1992. But it’s time enough to save one, too.President Trump said he was befuddled that people look up to Dr. Anthony Fauci but that “nobody likes me.” He said it’s his personality. The right projects its sins upon the rest of us — democracy as funhouse mirror where victimizers reflect as victims.One hopes that when November comes people of color — and good people of all skin tones — summon the perseverance of Hervis Rogers and bring about a blue wave to protect the voting rights of those who are now being systematically disenfranchised. Subscribe for unlimited digital access to the news that matters to your community. Columns Posted May 20. increase font size. lpitts@miamiherald.com. There is.So maybe you can see why serious people — a category excluding those who rely upon it for news and information — do not take Fox, well...seriously, why they dub it Pox News and Fakes News, to name two of the printable variations. We don’t even bother to protest Fox being Fox. They didn’t.Rudy Giuliani said on Fox that President Obama has issued propaganda asking everybody to “hate the police.” He hasn’t.John Stossel said on Fox that there is “no good data” proving secondhand cigarette smoke kills non-smokers. It was posted on the Internet, chain-letter style. The Miami Herald. Rather, it is what the European response tells us about ourselves and our waning capacity for moral indignation with this sort of garbage.Subscribe for unlimited digital access to the news that matters to your community. He is a columnist for the Miami Herald and won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Leonard Pitts Jr., is a Miami Herald columnist. He seemed insensate to the fact that the change he noted had come about because of the Act he was gutting. The president's announced use of an unproven treatment is just the latest example of people lying to us, and to themselves. You could do a lot of things in six hours.You could clean out a garage, paint a room, watch three movies.It took a man named Hervis Rogers that long to do so in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. “I wasn’t going to let anything stop me, so I waited it out.”Sign up for one of our many newsletters to be the first to know when big news breaksAnd if you’re wondering why Rogers had to go through that ordeal just to vote, the answer is simple: He is a black man in America.