Tag: blm
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Research says white Christians have become less motivated to address racial injustice
I saw an interesting article from Barna Research a few weeks ago titled “White Christians have become even less motivated to address racial injustice.” From the article: “One might assume that the events of 2020 have increased awareness of racial injustice in the United States and motivation to address it. But the story isn’t so straightforward,…
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Sports leagues postpone games and protest: but are they creating meaningful change?
In the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting, the NBA postponed all of their games on Wednesday night. Four MLB games were postponed. Several NFL teams called off practice. On the homepage of all of these major professional sports leagues, there are stories. nba.com has an article that with the headline “Reports: players decide to…
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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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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…
Josh Benner 