https://padlet.com/jamejia11/pubssfx1g2q6bv8w Reihan Salam and his thoughts. en-us 2021-02-03 02:15:09 UTC 2026-02-11 03:13:35 UTC hello@padlet.com jamejia11 https://padlet.com/jamejia11/pubssfx1g2q6bv8w/wish/1156662653 -Was born December 29, 1979 in Manhattan, New York.
-He's the youngest of 3 siblings, with 2 older sisters.
-He was raised in Brooklyn by Muslim, Bangladeshi immigrants.
-He attended Stuyvesant High School and Cornell University before transferring to Harvard.
-In 2001, Salam graudated from Harvard with a B.A. in Social Studies.
-After graduating from Harvard, Reihan worked as a reporter for The New Republic, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, an editorial researcher at the New York Times, a producer at NBC Universal, and an assoicate editor at The Atlantic. 
-In 2008, Salam co-authored his first book "Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream" with Ross Douthat.
-Salam appeared on numerous radio and television shows for many years until he was named executive editor of National Review in 2014.
-In 2018, Salam released his book "Melting Pot or Civil War?; A Son of Immigrants makes the Case Against Open Borders".
-In 2019, Salam became the new president of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.]]> 2021-02-03 02:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jamejia11/pubssfx1g2q6bv8w/wish/1156662653 jamejia11 https://padlet.com/jamejia11/pubssfx1g2q6bv8w/wish/1156716632 -Reihan Salam wrote this article on October 5, 2015 for the National Review.
-Just over a year before this article was published, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. His death cause a civil unrest which resuled in 16 injured and 321 arrested.
-At around the same time, Eric Garner, an African American man who suffered from asthma, was placed in a chokehold by a NYPD officer. Garner later passed away due to a heart attack, thought to have been caused by the chokehold he was placed in, and was pronounced dead at the hospital one hour after his arrest.
- A year prior to this article being written, Flint, Michigan had a water crisis that lasted 5 years.
-2015 would be the last year of Barack Obama's second term in office. 
-In 2015, politicians were announcing their Presidential campaigns for the 2016 election year. ]]> 2021-02-03 02:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jamejia11/pubssfx1g2q6bv8w/wish/1156716632 jamejia11 https://padlet.com/jamejia11/pubssfx1g2q6bv8w/wish/1156765737 In "Black and White in Shades of Gray," Reihan Salam assesses the reasons why the United States experimented a rise in "racial pessimism" in a two year period and how he believes Americans should feel about race. Although Salam acknowledges that African American history has been plagued by anti-black racism, he brings up the fact that the amount of African Americans that have left traditionally ghetto communities and integrated in more middle class neighborhoods has increased. Salam argues that although the progress made by African Americans is challenged by anti-blackness, Americans should look to the future with positivity. ]]> 2021-02-03 03:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jamejia11/pubssfx1g2q6bv8w/wish/1156765737 jamejia11 https://padlet.com/jamejia11/pubssfx1g2q6bv8w/wish/1156929309 Reihan Salam mentions in his article that "those who want to see racial progress in America ought to celebrate [rising black populations in southern metropolitan areas]" and I actually agree with him. A rising population of a racial demographic in any city has a direct correlation with the political power they yield. Upwards mobility is possible for most all communities in the United States regardless of the nation's racist past. The African American community in particular has endured a lot of racial and economic injustice but neither of those have stopped the community from existing and thriving.]]> 2021-02-03 04:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jamejia11/pubssfx1g2q6bv8w/wish/1156929309