The Republicans want to impeach Biden so badly that they kicked someone out of their “Freedom Caucus.” Here’s the deal: there are no high crimes or misdemeanors of which Biden is guilty to our awareness (and we definitely pay attention). These are prerequisites for an impeachment of a president. They argue that Biden's border policies (which, I remind you, mostly is extending the policies of Donald Trump) are allowing dangerous people to enter the US. They say this despite the fact that more migrants have been turned away under Biden than Donald Trump—which I’m officially against, but generally, Republicans go all gushy for.

Assault rifles. You know the real things that are threats to the children (as opposed to drag queens, transvestites, or whatever the right would have you think). And climate change, another thing that’s killing people across the United States.

What does the above graph say to you? If you can’t see the graph, you can navigate to https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/CA.html to review it there. What is shows is that certain ethnic groups are under-represented in the prison system in California (which is hardly a Republican stronghold—that’s not what this is about). You know which groups are over-represented in the prison system in California? That’s right: blacks are more than 4 times more likely to get sent to prison based on these data. Latino? You also are slightly more likely. So looking at this, and being naive and foolish, one could say “gee, those black people must be committing a lot of crimes.”

But that’s the naive view, and if you’ve listened to Right and Freedom before, you know better. You’ve heard of overpolicing in minority neighborhoods, you’ve come to understand the school-to-prison pipeline, and you’ve also understood the breakdown of prison sentences. At least 15% and as high as 25% of the entire prison population is there for drug possession charges.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

-Elie Wiessel