Carl Sagan's answer when Ted Turner asked if he's a socialist is a roadmap for rebuilding America

[Carl Sagan's answer when Ted Turner asked if he's a socialist is a roadmap for rebuilding America]( In 1989, CNN founder Ted Turner asked iconic astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan about his political leanings. Surely, someone with such a deep understanding of the universe and a passion for humanism would have important insights into how we organize ourselves politically. "Are you a socialist?" Turner asked Sagan. "I'm not sure what a socialist is," he replied. So Sagan provided his own definition. One we would all benefit greatly from if our leaders practiced it today. And it has nothing to do with politics as we think of it today. [Read the Story]( [He publicly defended the police. Four months later, an officer shot and killed Jonathan Price.]( Four months ago, Jonathan Price wrote a post to Facebook explaining how he'd always had positive interactions with white police officers in and around his hometown of Wolfe City, Texas, and urged people to look at their own experiences to make judgments. On Saturday night, he was shot and killed by one of those officers. Witnesses say the 31-year-old personal trainer intervened when a fight broke out between a couple at a gas station convenience store. When the altercation spilled outside into the parking lot, police arrived at the scene and one of them shot and killed Price. The officer who shot him has been placed on paid administrative leave, and Texas Rangers are investigating the killing that has rocked the town of 1500. [Read the Story]( [Trump, leaving hospital, tells nation: "Don't be afraid of Covid"]( President Donald Trump's Monday afternoon tweet—in which he announced that he would leave Walter Reed at 6:30 pm, dismissed the severity of pandemic, and touted "really great drugs"—elicited a flood of criticism from observers who said the president could be sending a deadly message after being afforded the kind of healthcare treatment the more than 210,000 Americans who died from Covid-19 were unable to access. "Don't be afraid of Covid," tweeted Trump, who is infected with the virus and has been at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center since Friday night. "We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs." [Read the Story]( [Indigenous woman dies in Canadian hospital after filming racist taunts from nurses]( A disturbing video out of Quebec has brought attention to the issue of systemic racism against Indigenous people in Canada's healthcare system. Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman and mother of seven, was admitted to a hospital in the Quebec city of Joliette for severe stomach pain on September 26. Two days after being admitted, she posted a live video on Facebook of the nurses taunting her with racial jibes. In the video, nurses can be heard calling her "stupid as hell" in French and asking "What are your children going to think, seeing you like this?" "She's good at having sex, more than anything else," another nurse says. The comments are heard while Echaquan moans in pain. She died shortly after posting the live video. [Read the Story]( [Beverly Hills police frisked a Black man for the 'crime' of holding a Versace bag in public]( Salehe Bembury was understandably outraged after being stopped and frisked by a Beverly Hills police officer on Thursday. He was apprehended by officers for jaywalking after shopping at the Versace store. "I was in Beverly Hills. I went to go visit my buddy Amiri's store. And I was like, you know what, I'm never in Beverly Hills, let me stop by the Versace store. I grab a few things, and I'm walking back to my car," he said in a video he recorded after the incident. "All of a sudden, this cop car pulls up on me on the corner, like with the quickness," he said. [Read the Story]( Find us on the World Wide Web: [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Website]( Copyright © 2020 GOOD | Upworthy, All rights reserved. 1370 N St Andrews Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90028 You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.