Preserving American Values
Our nation stands under attack … not from without but from within. American values, our politics, and our culture have been corrupted.
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Category: Racism
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We as a people have never had a conversation about race. That is a sad fact. Race and racism have of course been discussed frequently by groups and individuals, but we have never had a national discussion. There has never been a national reconciliation about race and racism. Not even after the Civil War. Given…
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The question is, should Governor Northam of Virginia resign because he possibly either put on blackface or a KKK robe for a picture that found its way into his medical school yearbook (which he first admitted and then denied), or because he now admits that he blacked his face as part of a Michael Jackson…
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There is much societal strife in this world, and the reason comes down to one of two things: either a country or group has something we want or wants something we have, or we feel threatened by the otherness of the other, that we cannot be safe while the other has potential power over us. I…
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I am not a fool nor do I avoid unpleasant truths. I have always been well aware that, despite the stirring words of theDeclaration of Independence and the many laws that have been passed over the years to decrease the instances of discrimination faced by our Black fellow citizens, Black Americans continue to face a…
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W. E. Du Bois, in his classic The Souls of Black Folk (1903), stated that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, – the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men.” In the United States, that relationship and the resulting divisions between the groups has, despite all the civil rights laws…
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It is beyond distressing that the President, the elected leader of our country, continues to provide more examples from his own words and actions of his amorality. In his rants against NFL players who bend the knee when the national anthem is played, he showed absolutely no understanding of the plight of most black Americans…
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I previously wrote in a post that Donald Trump will do and say anything he feels he needs to in order to get what he wants. He has no morality or ethics. It’s all transactional. The end definitely justifies the means for him. The New York Times pointed out several days ago that the one group that Trump cannot…
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Of all the unfortunate results of the 2016 campaign and election, perhaps the worst is that the divisive identity politics pursued by both parties resulted in a loss of any feeling that we are one people, one country. Instead, post-election there are two opposing camps at war; so many angry voices, so much vilification on both…
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We learn that life is a struggle between the forces of light and darkness. Buddhism sees the conflict as between your heart and your ego-mind. In Christianity, it’s between God and the Devil. Many holy men have taught that there can be no light without darkness, without first suffering you cannot learn how to free yourself from…
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In an earlier post of mine, “Urban Ghetto Violence Is Not Caused by a Failure of the Black Community,” I argued that while many, especially Republicans, criticize Blacks for the violence in the urban ghetto community, that causal connection is false. It is not a function of Black culture. It is instead the product of poverty and…
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