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Category: BLM

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BLM in School

The National Education Association (NEA) has an entire website dedicated to resources for teaching the message of the Black Lives Matter organization (BLMO).  They call it “Black Lives Matter at School”.  Here’s their stated goal: “The goal of Black Lives Matter at School is to spark an ongoing movement of

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Accessory to Murder

This weekend, someone walked up to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s vehicle and fired several shots point-blank into the officers sitting in their SUV. I was reading the comments associated with the video posted on Twitter and saw more than one person one claiming that the shooting wasn’t without provocation

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Just Entertain Me

Athletes don’t have to be particularly bright people.  Some are, but it’s not a requirement for the job.  Their job is to entertain and amuse us by being very good at playing a game.  To do their job, they just need to be really good at one or two specific

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Cause and Effect

As you know, I’m a big believer in personal accountability.  Maybe it’s my mid-western upbringing but I believe that I alone am responsible for whatever, good or bad, results from my actions.  People doing stupid things and then whining because they don’t like the results really irk me.  The riots

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Some Black Lives Matter

What do all these phrases have in common? Black Lives Matter All Black Lives Matter White Lives Matter Blue Lives Matter All Lives Matter The Entirety of Humanity is Significant If you said that these are all true, you are right. Any reasonable person would agree with you. No rational

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Two Men

I’ve talked with two black men this week.  Both are educated and in the upper-middle class.  Both are about the same age. Both have successful jobs.  Both live in California.  One is a Liberal and the other is a Conservative. The Liberal believes in the message and agenda of the

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Buffaloed

Consider this phrase: buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Yup.  That’s an actual sentence.  Now, I’m going to add some punctuation and capitalization. Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo. That’s probably not a lot clearer. The sentence means: “Buffalo from Buffalo, NY, that are confused by

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Protect the Brand

I had an epiphany. People object to the phrase “All Lives Matter” because they want to protect the BLM brand. Here’s my proposal. Not quite as catchy as their phrase but they can hardly complain about the sentiment. If they do then they’re racist. 🙂

Priorities

The Washington Post maintains a database of all police-related shootings. It’s the database nearly everyone uses when quoting statistics about police violence. However, it only contains shootings. So, for example, George Floyd isn’t in their database. According to their data, there have been two instances since May 25th (George Floyd’s

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