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It was curious, to put it charitably, that Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, was making news lately more for her million-dollar properties than for her political activism. This is why her resignation this week came as no surprise. USA Today reported on her “golden parachute” from the front lines of the ongoing fight… Read more.
Episode 30: On Race Matters, America Could Breathe, For a Minute… Related commentaries: George Floyd… Black Lives Matter… Listen.
In my July 12 commentary – “Folks, If Crime Stats Begin Rivaling Covid Stats, Trump Wins! So Shut Up, AOC!” – I denounced Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for condoning looting as a way for people to get food to eat. After all, we see looters time and again fleeing with non-edible items like TVs, computers, smartphones,… Read more.
Frankly, these rulings smack too much of Chief Justice John Roberts being hell-bent on his Supreme Court having its cake (of judicial independence) and eating it too (by pandering to both sides of America’s coarsening political divide). In any case, I am not surprised. I’m just dismayed because it took nearly four years to establish… Read more.
“Defund the Police!” has become the battle cry of George Floyd anti-racism protesters. Listening to them chant it, however, you’d be forgiven for recoiling in consternation and despair, bordering on fear. Never mind that they often come across like a mob of stonemasons, each with only one hand, hell-bent on building another Tower of Babel… Read more.
A protest against government removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville on Saturday turned violent. The white supremacist protesters clashed with counterprotesters, leading the governor to declare a state of emergency before the rally even started. A woman died and multiple were injured after a car plowed into counterprotesters. (The Hill, August 13, 2017) Frankly, reaction… Read more.
Arguably, the defining feature of black America in recent years has been the eruption of street protests every time a cop killed a black man. In each case, protesters vented existential angst with chants of: Black Lives Matter! In fact, the spectre of white cops killing black men now dominates national consciousness, so much so… Read more.
Snipers shot and killed five police officers ‘ambush-style’ during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, according to Dallas police Friday. At least six other police officers and one civilian were also injured in the deadliest day for police in the U.S. since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Dallas Police Chief David Brown said… Read more.
Here is a surprising twist in the developing story of the White student resource officer who lost his job after forcibly removing a Black female student from her classroom at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina earlier this week: The local NBC affiliate WIS reported that hundreds of students participated in Friday’s walkout at… Read more.
You have probably seen police dashcam video of the July 10 traffic stop that led to Sandra Bland’s arrest. Shockingly, she died of an alleged suicide in a Texas jail, under plainly suspicious circumstances, just three days later. I shall leave it to others to propagate racially motivated speculation about whether the manner of her… Read more.
