Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes
You can't really say that Bushmaster or Mariah Dillard is a bigger bad, because they both do some pretty heinous things.
Coker, Cheo Hodari. Interview by Christina Radish. Collider, 22 June 2018.
In 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt instructed his Attorney General to file one of America’s first and the largest anti-trust case against Northern Securities Company. The President was a Republican and a patrician. Most of his social acquaintances and a few friends were totally surprised that the President could turn against his own class in what they saw as an act of class warfare. They sought explanations for the unthinkable.
Marshall was one of the greatest soldiers who ever served America. He was the Chief of Staff throughout the Second World War and then served as Secretary of State. It was he who devised and implemented the Marshall Plan. McCarthy accused thousands of people of being disloyal including Marshall. He claimed to have lists of communists in the Army and other agencies of government, but never produced such lists. In addition to being a overbearing demagogue, he suffered (and died from) from a serious case of alcoholism. McCarthy’s false and irresponsible attacks eventually caused the Senate to censure him. That and his drinking destroyed his career. Marshall is remembered as one of America’s great figures.
Part of French Sudan—now Mali. This was a Province of the Fulani Islamic Empire, Bambara, of the Greater Sudan. Despite fierce resistance, the French prevailed and colonized the territory. Muntaga, the brother of the Tukulor Islamic ruler Amhadu , provided a great example of the fiery rhetorical style which survives to this day in much of the Islamic world.
Haldeman had actually called the network executives on several occasions regarding Cavett’s show. Nixon was particularly furious when Cavett interviewed John Kerry, the decorated soldier who had thrown his medals away in protest to the handling of the Vietnam War. Nixon wanted some stronger actions taken.
Clark, after becoming one of the richest men in America, wanted to go into National Politics, but most people hated him so he could never win elected office. At the time, Montana selected their Senators by a vote of the State Legislature. So Clark bribed enough members of the legislature to become the Senator. However, the bribery scheme became a public scandal and the Senate refused to seat him. So the legislature had another vote in the next legislative session and Clark won again, and that time no one had the evidence of the bribes. But then, more about Clark became known, and he just served the one term.
He like others were very critical of Democracy and also of tyranny, but they had no positive solution as to what was acceptable.
Cheo Hodari Coker is an American former music journalist turned television writer and producer known for such television series as Luke Cage, NCIS: Los Angeles, Southland and Ray Donovan. Coker also wrote the screenplay for the 2009 biographical film Notorious, based on the life and death of The Notorious B.I.G.
