Whenever I hear Donald Trump speak, I think of Rush Limbaugh.
Between 1988 and 1998, I listened to Rush at least twice a week while working on projects related to my education and work. At first, some of his commentary seemed a bit over the top, but I found myself sometimes laughing in spite of myself. During his earlier years, he balanced his snarky comments about others with a willingness to poke fun at himself.
After Bill Clinton was elected…..
“The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is racist! They are at least partially responsible for the deaths of law enforcement officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge! Police officers’ behavior around black people is justified because black men are responsible for up to 75% of all shootings!”
Thus speaks Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Heather Mac Donald, and others opposed to the movement.
So how responsible is the BLM movement for the targeted murders of police officers?
In the…..
Numbing shock rolled over me as I learned about the killings in LOUISIANA, Minnesota, and Texas. How could such senseless violence continue?
And not just physical violence, but the verbal violence as well, with the usual suspects being blamed depending on the political tribe volleying the verbiage: guns, Black Lives Matter, police occupation, President Obama, Donald Trump, black people, white people…the predictability was mind-numbing.
“Just be like us,” tribal spokespeople seemed to be saying, “and everything will be great again.”
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During the past week, three diversity-related articles caught my attention.
In the first, published on Townhall.com on Jun 27, 2016, Paul Greenberg listed ideas he finds most repellent: eugenics; food as fuel; Obamacare; educanto, whatever that is; and diversity. Regarding diversity, he wrote:
“The whole industry, racket and fraud. Complete with racial, sexual and class quotas. … At best, all these supernumeraries aren’t needed, and at worst they represent a clear and present danger to education, the real thing and…..