Tag: black lives matter
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The virtue signal of all virtue signals: liberals compare themselves to heroes of all past generations
Last week, legal scholar and philosopher Robert George had a thought-provoking series of Tweets on how people today would have responded to historical events had they lived through them. George says: “I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what?…
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Institutions under attack – progressive politics are not the answer
Racism is a terrible scourge upon humanity and a sin that is in the hearts of way too many of our fellow citizens. Much has been said over the last few weeks on the subject of race in America. There’s been a vocal group (who’s small relative to the size of our population) who’s called…
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Man dies in police custody while begging for his life
The footage of George Floyd being held to the ground and struggling to breathe, repeatedly telling the police he can’t breathe, begging for his life, and telling the police that he was about to die, is incredibly disturbing. It’s murder. There will be those who blame the victim. I’ve heard people try to make excuses…
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Nike ad says Colin Kaepernick is “sacrificing everything.” We should all agree that that’s absurd
“Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. Just do it.” Sacrificing everything? This is the slogan on a new Nike ad featuring former Colin Kaerpnick, former NFL quarterback who was the first in the NFL to kneel during the National Anthem as a protest. The ad is on a new marketing campaign from…
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No charges filed in Alton Sterling death
Of the many deaths we have footage of where police have used deadly force, there’s few that appear as egregious as the 2016 killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In the video, the officers have him held down. They’re on top of him. Sterling allegedly reached for his pocked (he was armed at…
Josh Benner 