Stories you should be reading but aren't.

I am still trying to figure out how some of these news organizations are choosing to ignore what in any other time would be major news stories affecting our lives.

Consider the following:

Right now there is a potential scandal brewing with this administration that's as big--- or bigger--- than anything Nixon and his gang could have come up with. It involves the Census, and it goes to the heart of just how corrupt and brazen the current administration has become.

"Ever since the Trump administration moved last year to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, questions have been asked about the true motivation. The stated reason is that it is needed to enforce the Voting Rights Act, but that has never been a huge point of emphasis for the Republican Party. Indeed, GOP officials have worked to dismantle the VRA in recent years.

And as we’ve found out over the last few months, there are reasons to doubt those initial explanations. Exactly where the idea to add the question came from has been obscured, including apparently by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and now evidence exists that its earliest proponents may have had other, very political motivations."  [Source]

And now the trump administration is doing everything in its powers to prevent the House Oversight Committee from getting their hands on materials that could tell the public what is the true motivation of this administration it comes to the questions on the Census forms. 

Clearly there was something nefarious at play, and it's not a stretch to say that the GOP was trying to get a heads up on the elections by using and weaponizing the Census to their advantage.

Another story not getting any traction is the alleged corruption being practiced before our eyes by the Bonnie & Clyde of Washington D.C., Elaine Chao, and her hubby, Mitch (turtle) McConnell.

I suppose that when there are so many stories that in normal times would be considered shocking coming out of the trump White House, you have to choose your editorial battles. But something as serious as this should be a no- brainer. Sadly, they just don't make journalists like they used to.

Finally, there is a story out of York County right here in Pistolvania that is scary and shocking.

" The call came out of nowhere one April day last year: Everett Palmer Jr. was dead.

The 41-year-old father of two had traveled from his home in Delaware to Lancaster County, Pa., to resolve an outstanding DUI warrant from 2016, his family told The Washington Post on Thursday. But days later, his family received a call that he had died at York County Prison on April 9.

An autopsy report from the York County Coroner’s Office states that Palmer had become agitated in his cell, banging his head against his cell door, and was restrained. He was then moved to a hospital, where he was declared dead. But his family still knows little about the events that precipitated his death.

There was “so much mystery and unanswered questions in a way that violates every policy and procedure the state has,” said civil rights attorney Lee Merritt, who is now representing the family."

It gets worse.

"Gay said that Palmer was banging his head in his cell before his death and that the result for methamphetamine toxicity would appear if there was “methamphetamine in their system that was sufficient enough that it could have contributed to the death.” She said the question of how he could have obtained such a substance in custody was under investigation.

Lee Merritt, the Palmer family lawyer, told the Washington Post that the family had been shocked to receive Everett Palmer’s body with his heart, brain and throat missing, and that it was not immediately communicated to them where the body parts were. The family’s distress over the missing body parts was detailed in a NY1 investigation into Palmer’s death and reiterated to The Post." [Source] 

The first thing you need to understand is that York County, Pennsylvania has a history. They might as well call it York County, Mississippi, because frankly, Mississippi doesn't have anything on these folks when it comes to how they treat black folks. 

Imagine that, body parts missing! And still this story is not one of the leading headlines of every news station in the country.  

More people in America will hear stories about Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's relationship than the stories I just posted. And we wonder why Americans are so shallow. They made us this way, and we could care less.