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Facing Reality
ecthompsonmd October 14, 2024

(Disclaimer – I wrote this right after the first debate. I never, in a million years, thought that Joe Biden would drop out of the race. Clearly I didn’t know Joe. Joe loves America the way we all should. Anyway here is my argument to get behind Joe!) I stopped watching debates 12 to 15 years ago. What exactly is the point of a presidential debate? What are we going to learn? Are we going to learn how the candidates will govern? No. A debate is an artificial situation that has nothing to do with governing the country. Phony, irrelevant “debates”

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Status Quo
ecthompsonmd March 21, 2023

It was nearly 10 years ago when Eric Garner was selling loosies (individual cigarettes) on the streets of New York. Eric Gardner was a man who was barely getting by. He was in poor health. He was morbidly obese. He had been arrested multiple times for minor infractions. He was selling individual cigarettes in order to make money. On this particular street corner, he was actually known as a peacemaker. On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, a Black male, had just broken up a fight. The police were called. They saw Eric Gardner. They confronted him with regard to the sale

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Another Black Man Gunned Down
ecthompsonmd April 8, 2015

Look, this is a problem in our society. For some reason (and we can argue the reason), black men are getting killed by police. I’m a trauma surgeon. I work for the police all the time. The folks with whom I work are very professional and seem to want to do the right thing all the time. There are, somehow, these folks in the police force that are, for a lack of a better word, cowboys. Officer Michael Slager had several days to tell his story. Here’s what he was saying through his lawyer on Monday – Slager thinks he properly

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ABOUT AUTHOR
Errington C. Thompson, MD

Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats.

Books

A Letter to America

The Thirteeneth Juror

Where is The Outrage Topics
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