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44 of our 45 Presidents have been white males. Congress is 80% male, 80% white, and 92% Christian. The Supreme Court is 75% white and 57% male. The President’s cabinet is 87% white and 87% male. This is the racial composition of our three branches of government. Diversity within all...
Today it seems everybody has a complaint about the state of things in America. Some people think the problem is that we’re too politically correct. Others think the problem is there are too many guns. Some claim America’s problem is that political system is corrupt. Others claim that America’s problem...
I’ve always said that, in any encounter with the socially and legally protected cops, people of color (specifically Black and Latino males), have a 50/50 chance of living. It actually turns out it’s a little worse than that. People of Color According to the Washington Post, as of...
South Carolina officer Ben Fields was fired for slamming a student to the ground and tossing her several feet. The normal arguments defending the act are appearing. We know the argument, and here it is rehashed. You have to comply with the police instructions. If you just sit there...
People want to feel safe, so they assume the world is safe. We’ve seen enough police videos to know that many police officers are less than truthful in what they write in their police reports which doesn’t match what we see in these videos. I’m certainly not saying that all...
Friends and relatives of Sandra Bland, whom authorities say hanged herself in a Texas jail after her arrest for allegedly kicking an officer following a traffic stop, are seeking more details of her death, saying the 28-year-old gave no indication she was in such an emotional state. However, Sandra...
Advice For My Teenage Brother is a column where I give advice to my teenage brother 17 years my junior unbound by any parental obligations to shape his mind or financially account for his mistakes, I can flex my brotherly instinct and tell him things I feel his parents, sports...
Although I was relieved by the indictment of the officers who held Freddie Gray before his death, I haven’t exhaled. I know that it will be very challenging for those charges to stick. I’ve been told that it would have been better that Gray had his hands up begging...
The last 4 minutes of a man’s life. Warning, it’s graphic. I was always taught to put my head on the steering wheel and and my hands at “10 and 2” when pulled over. Back in the days of yore when I used to drive regularly, I...