Leonard Pitts
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PublishedJune 10, 2020
Leonard Pitts: During protests, police wore their brutality like a badge of honor
Exhibit A: Two Buffalo officers were suspended for shoving a 75-year-old protester to the ground, 57 quit in support – and a Florida police organization wanted to hire them.
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PublishedJune 3, 2020
Leonard Pitts: Police violence is about more than ‘a few bad apples’
Systemic racism is what’s causing the deaths of one unarmed African American after another at the hands of law enforcement.
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PublishedMay 20, 2020
Leonard Pitts: Do COVID deniers even know what the truth is?
The president's announced use of an unproven treatment is just the latest example of people lying to us, and to themselves.
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PublishedMay 13, 2020
Leonard Pitts: Angry white men refuse to be governed like the rest of us
When a child goes missing, you call the police. You don’t grab a gun and try to push your way into the wrong house.
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PublishedMay 6, 2020
Leonard Pitts: We’re not ‘all in this together,’ and we never were
Want proof? Consider the benign response to the descent on Michigan's statehouse by an armed, white anti-lockdown mob.
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PublishedApril 29, 2020
Leonard Pitts: We’re suffering from two pandemics – COVID and mental mediocrity
But halfwit pundits and politicians can't sway me into dining out or flying again until I feel I can do so safely.
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PublishedApril 22, 2020
Leonard Pitts: A call for ‘liberty’ is a call for death
Anti-lockdown protesters can't bear to be forced to do a thing, even if that thing is necessary to save lives.
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PublishedApril 15, 2020
Leonard Pitts: Support local journalism – it’s cheaper than the frightening alternative
Where power is not held to account, there can be no democracy.
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PublishedApril 8, 2020
Leonard Pitts: Some of us will never be ‘American’ enough to satisfy the bigots
Americans of Asian heritage have no obligation to prove themselves to those who beat and spit upon them.
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PublishedApril 1, 2020
Leonard Pitts: Italian priest wasn’t a coronavirus hero, but many others of us are
Father Berardelli – though he was selfless – never had a ventilator to save someone else’s life. Consider, instead, the heroic lives around us.
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