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Were we to make a political wish for the new year, it might be for more cooperation at the national level in moments of true crisis. Civil conversations across the political aisle are a starting point for healing a polarized society; action bipartisan action however, deserves greater attention.

The Great Recession of 2008 comes to mind as one of the more recent instances of political cooperation. George W. Bush and Barack Obama demonstrated unusual civic friendship, as Aristotle would have termed it, in responding to the crisis.

A shared concern for the welfare of the American people, as well as mutual respect between the two men, whatever their differing philosophies, made for a singular moment in American history.

While few saw the housing bubble coming before the spring of 2008, President Bush found himself in uncharted political territory as mortgage defaults shredded the financial sector in an era of easy money. It might be said that the sitting president was as politically vulnerable as many Americans were financially exposed to the financial crisis.

Americans had manifest their opposition to Bushs Iraq War at the midterm ballot boxes in 2006, leaving a Democratic majority in Congress including Illinois first term senator, Barack Obama, who had been elected only two years earlier.

In his penetrating assessment of the trans-Atlantic scope of the Great Recession, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Shaped the World, Columbia University historian Adam Tooze singled out Bushs dependence on a majority of Democrats (before and after the 2008 election) to respond to the more controversial aspects of the free-fall: namely, the rescue of investment houses and a bailout of the automobile industry.

From a position of weakness, Bush recognized that more was at stake than simply party politics in the 2008 election; American dreams tottered in the balance.

Thus, as the campaign entered its final hours, he took the unprecedented step of informing both John McCain and Obama of the potential damage that their actions and words might have on the overall health of the reeling economy.

Suspending his campaign as the magnitude of the crisis unfolded, Sen. McCain called for a meeting with Bush, congressional leaders and Obama to assess potential solutions to the problem.

It was less what candidate Obama said than Bushs reaction to Obamas characterization of the problem that yielded the presidents admiration for the junior senator from Illinois stature as a potential leader. He had a calm demeanor, Bush wrote in his memoir, Decision Points, and spoke about the broad outlines of the package (to address the crisis). Bush went on to note that Obamas purpose was to show that he was aware, in touch, and ready to help get a bill passed.

When Obamas election became a reality, Bush continues in his memoir, he recalled saying a prayer for the incoming administration. He backed up those sentiments with action. Bush doubled down to clean up the implosion of the automobile industry with stimulus funds before handing off the baton to Obama. I wont dump this mess on him, vowed Bush.

As Obama later sized things up, President Bush would end up doing all he could to make the eleven weeks between my election and his departure go smoothly. Furthermore, according to Obamas telling of the story, published in his memoir, Promised Land, Bush delivered on the passage of a wildly unpopular stimulus bill (TARP), allowing the new president to start with a clean slate.

And while it is true that nary a Senate Republican voted for the new presidents controversial Affordable Care Act, Bush absorbed some of the public opprobrium directed toward the architects of the bailout. Thats a great deal more than any other Republican would do for the new president.

What does this story highlight? First, a modicum of civility between two men with diverging political agendas. Second, a greater concern for the public welfare over political posturing led to a better outcome for all Americans. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Bush, even while in office, allowed himself during a fraught White House meeting prior to the election to see his successor as someone aware, in touch and capable of assuming the presidential mantle.

Evan Ward is associate professor of History at Brigham Young University, where he teaches courses on world history. His views are his own.

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Black female leaders are labeled as angry or mad for speaking their truth and raising their voices. I have felt that sting, but I regained my voice.

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Americans have often mistaken Black women's passionate attitudefor anger. Black women have experienced tone policing when at work, atcorporate gatherings andin public life.

Over last few years, society has been forced to pay attention to the systemic racism against African Americans. People of all races have marched and protested to encourage change changes that require people not only to focus on the justice system but to focus on conversations that dim the light on racial tropes.

Despite the effort for change, Black women still feel the need to alter themselves to gain acceptance.

In 2019, former First LadyMichelle Obama spoke with CBS news hostGayle King and explained during an interview how being called "angry" affected her work ethic when she served as the First Lady of the United States.

For a minute there, I was an angry Black woman who was emasculating her husband," Obama said.

"I had to prove that not only was I smart and strategic, but I had to work harder than any First Lady in history, said Obama,recallingthe label she was given by criticsfor speaking against racism and other harsh topics.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and Stacey Abrams, the 2018 and 2022Georgia governor's race candidate,experienced similar name-calling when expressing themselves.

Harris, who identifies as Black and Indian American, was called a "madwoman" by former President Donald Trump after she questioned Brett Kavanaugh aboutsexual misconduct allegations during his 2018confirmation hearing.

"And now, you have a sort of a madwoman, I call her, because she was so angry and such hatred with Justice Kavanaugh. I mean, I've never seen anything like it. She was the angriest of the group and they were all angry, Trump said.

Twitter users were offended when Axios, a political news site, uploaded a photo of Abrams that users felt played into the "angry Black woman" trope.

One user said, "there are countless photos of Stacey Abrams and her glorious smile. Axios must have had to search to find an image to fit the angry Black woman trope."

The Angry Black Woman trope has been given to African American women throughout history.

Many Black women have struggled with this label in their professional and personal lives. Black women are afraid to speak in work environments to dodge being given the title angry.

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As a Black woman, I have filtered my opinion during conversations with people from other races in the past. I would refuse to engage in topics my freshman year of college. I felt voiceless as I attended a predominately white institution.

I recall a time when I studied with a few girls from my dorm room and a couple of their friends. I was the only Black person in the group. We discussed various topics that day, but one particular topic I stayed quiet on.

That topic was why the African American race was proud to see a president that looked like them. Comments and questions were thrown out there.

For instance, one girl asked, "Why do Black people act so excited when a Black person does something that supposedly makes history, but when a white person does something that makes history, the same excitement isn't shown?"

At that moment, I was tight-lipped. I thought her question was insensitive.I was sitting at a table with people who did not look like me and people who openlydownplayed the achievements of Black people in my presence.

I felt she did not understand how significant a Black person elected as the president of the United States was. She appeared to either forget or ignore the unjust treatment and control the African American race endured over four centuries.

Maybe she never knew, but this is a reaction I have seen fromsome white peoplewhominimize historical achievementsfor Black people.

Believe it or not, I was not angry. I would have liked to answer her question, but I chose not to. I did not feel I was in an open-minded space to communicate. My entire study group actedoblivious towhy my racewould be proud to achievehistorical milestones. Jokes were thrown around constantly.

Her tone when she asked the question was like she was askinga rhetorical question. WhileI was able to answer her question, I wasn't willing.

At that moment, I lost my confidence and voice.

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Now, after being influenced by women who look like me,my voice has returned. My words have grown stronger. I realize thatusing my voice to discuss harsh truths in America showsI was strong enough to indulge in complex conversations.

Amongthose times I used my voice, I was not enraged, instead, I was passionate.

As I watched a 2016interview of Michelle Obama byOprah Winfrey, I was deeply moved by how the former First Lady chose to transform her pain instead of transmitting it.

She told Winfrey, "The thing that least defines us as people is the color of our skin, it's the size of our bank account. None of that matters. It's our values, it's how we live our lives. You can't tell that by someone's race, someone's religion. People have to act it out, they have to live those lives so that was the blowback, but then I thought okay, let me live my life out loud so people can then see and then judge for themselves."

Like Obama, Abrams channeled her anger into change as she recently announced she isrunning for governor again after nearly winning the 2018 election and accusing her opponent of suppressing Black votes.

Despite critics painting her asangry, she refuses to be discouraged.Both women could have spreadnegativityafter critics portrayed them as angry individuals. Both continued to bepositive and focused on what mattered the most.

Michelle Obama's words were confirmation Black women should not silence themselves. Black women did not label themselves angry.Black women have been forced to be theface of thisnegative trope for decades.

Katelynn White worked as a news internfor the USA TODAY Network Tennessee in late 2021 and graduated fromTennessee State University magna cum laude.Feel free to contact herat KWhite@nashvill.gannett.com.

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There is nothing wrong with being proud of ones nationality, ethnic origin or religion. However, when that pride becomes so fanatical, reaching the level of absurdity, then we are dealing with someone who has lost all sense of reality.

Turkish political analyst Burak Bekdil acknowledged in his July 30, 2021 article published by BESA Center Perspectives: The Turkish-Islamist psyche is susceptible tothe pitfalls of honor, fatalism, conspiracism, bombast, publicity, and confusion.

Over the years, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made many bizarre statements that raise suspicions about his mental sanity.

Here are some examples of Erdogans nutty statements.

In 2014, Erdogan told a group of Latin American Muslims visiting Istanbul that Muslim Pilgrims discovered America several centuries before Christopher Columbus: It is alleged that the American continent was discovered by Columbus in 1492. In fact, Muslim sailors reached the American continent 314 years before Columbus in 1178. In his memoirs, Christopher Columbus mentions the existence of a mosque atop a hill on the coast of Cuba. A mosque would look perfect on that hill today. Of course, Columbus never said such a thing in his memoirs.

In another outlandish claim, Pres. Erdogan announced that Turkey will send a spaceship with a Turkish astronaut to the moon in 2023 on the centennial of the Republic of Turkey. He speculated that a female astronaut may be a part of the Turkish space team. It would be interesting to see how Turkey, a bankrupt country, could spend billions of dollars on such a far-fetched adventure, not to mention its lack of space technology. Maybe this whole topic is a hoax to divert the peoples attention from their woes and empty pockets to gazing at the moon and stars! A skeptical Turk sarcastically said: We cannot go to the supermarket, so how will we go to space? Another Turk remarked, We were not able to distribute masks [for COVID] to citizens, so how do we go to space?

Before Erdogan can fantasize about going to space, he should worry about the collapsing lira, millions of unemployed Turks and a huge percentage of his people suffering from abject poverty. According to Turkish sources, 34 million Turks are on the verge of starvation. In the first half of 2020, 1.6 million Turkish families had their electricity and gas cut off because they could not pay their bills.

Bekdil wrote that he grew up in classrooms filled up with mottoes like A Turk is worth the world, Turks have had to fight the seven biggest world powers, and A Turks only friend is another Turk. Our textbooks taught us that the supreme Turkish race dominated the entire world for centuries; that the Ottoman Empire collapsed only after a coalition of world powers attacked it; that we lost WWI because we had allied with the Germans, who were defeated (not us); and that one day, we will make the entire planet Turkish. We were taught that an Ottoman warrior could keep on fighting even after having been beheaded by the [Byzantine] enemy.

As a result, Bekdil explained, Turks are hungry for fairy tales about the good life they did not get to enjoy over the past century, but believe they deserve. Any feel-good news propaganda, even Erdogans famous The West, including the Germans, are jealous of us! tirade, finds millions of receptive listeners in Turkeys post-modern marketplace of absurdity.

In an article titled, Jesus Was Turkish: the Bizarre Resurgence of Pseudo-Turkology, Luka Ivan Jukic wrote in NEW/LINES Magazine: You would be forgiven for not knowing that former U.S. President Barack Obama was a Turk. Or that Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad were, likewise, of Turkic origin. You would be forgiven for not knowing that Russia is really a great Turkic nation, that Kazakhs and the Japanese are genetically identical or that the legendary English King Arthur was, you guessed it, a Turk. You would be forgiven because none of this is true. Yet in countries from central Europe to Central Asia and everywhere in between, supposed historical facts like these and the theories they support have made their way from the minds of overzealous and pseudo-academics into national school textbooks, popular culture and, indeed, official government ideology.

In 1932, the Turkish language Institute invented the fake Sun Language Theory which claimed that the Turkish language was the source of all human language and therefore all human civilization, Jukic wrote. Linguists from the Institute claimed that language had been invented by sun-worshipping proto-Turks in Central Asia as they babbled at the sun. Furthermore, the Turkish History Thesis claimed that Turks had brought civilization to China, Europe, India and elsewhere when they migrated from the Eurasian Steppe. These pseudo-theories found their way into Turkish textbooks and popular books, brainwashing several generations of Turks. Most adherents of these pseudo-scientific claims are followers of Pres. Erdogan.

There is no super race. All people are equal. They are all Gods children. While claims of superiority may satisfy a vain human inclination, no one should treat other races as inferior.

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh $917 million of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

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Senator John Barrasso recently appeared on Fox News to discuss President Biden's use of Executive Orders.

Speaking on the Fox News Program Your World with Neil Cavuto, Senator Barrasso addressed the fact that President Biden has opted to extend student loan debt repayments until May of 2022.

"This is kind of the return of the ghost of Barack Obama who said, 'I have a pen and I have a phone,'" Senator Barrasso stated. "This is how Joe Biden started his presidency. The first day he did an executive order that killed the Keystone XL Pipeline. He declared war on American energy and that was what lit the flame of inflation that's burning across the country."

Barrasso then referenced another Executive Order that President Biden signed, regarding immigration.

"[He opened] the floodgates to illegal immigrants who brought with them into this country in massive numbers, with the crime and the drugs and the disease," Barrasso said. "So now he's trying to decide, does he go even further with Executive Orders, and he's being pushed by the radical fringe of the party who want him to do a lot more, in terms of money for illegal immigrants, in terms of additional entitlements, and we're gonna see the President...he's already at record low numbers in terms of his approval. He is gonna have to decide who he wants to listen to - the radical fringe or the American people."

Cavuto, to his credit, reminded Senator Barrasso that Biden's predecessor (former president Donald Trump) also signed Executive Orders.

In fact, according to the Federal Register, from 2017 to 2021, former president Trump issued a total of 219 executive orders.

So far, President Biden has issued 77.

"Every president takes more authority, or tries to do that," Senator Barrasso said. "But look; the Democrats are gonna try to pass something. They always want to do something to grow the government. Republicans want to grow the economy. Democrats are very different and I believe they're going to try to do something. I think Schumer and Pelosi and Biden want to get something passed."

For contextual purposes, former President Barack Obama used to frequently say "I've got a pen and I've got a phone."

Specifically, in January of 2014, President Obama stated that he was willing to take on congress in order to provide Americans the help they needed.

We are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we're providing Americans the kind of help that they need," President Obama said at the time, according to CBS News. "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone. And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward in helping to make sure our kids are getting the best education possible, making sure that our businesses are getting the kind of support and help they need to grow and advance, to make sure that people are getting the skills that they need to get those jobs that our businesses are creating."

Whether President Biden's actions are, indeed, "the return of the ghost of Barack Obama," remains to be seen.

To be clear, there is not an actual ghost of President Obama because he has not, in fact, passed away.

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