Ignorance Equals Education?
I had a very interesting conversation with a young African-American man recently. A bright, articulate, educated young man, he owns his own business and is the defacto Operations Manager for a very successful minority-owned business. He drives a new car, his wife drives a foreign import luxury car, and he sends his children to a private school.
Real VIrtual Racism?
I once read a quote that really stuck with me: “I have come…to assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me, as though I was an intellectual slave.” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas)
Although it occurred some years prior to my learning of this quote, I had come to a similar position on my own. Born in a small Texas town at the close of the Great Depression to a hard- working laborer and his schoolteacher wife, I learned firsthand about biscuits and home fried chicken. We raised our own chickens and rolled out our biscuits on the kitchen table. I have hands-on experience with doing without and with hand-me-downs. In my home town...
Virtual Racism
Racism is a word thrown about frequently today. It is interesting to me that most of the people who are using the word probably have no idea what it really means. Many, including so-called “civil rights leaders” relentlessly proclaim that America is rife with racism, bringing forth all manner of supposed malevolence to support these charges.
Disagree with a policy supported by the intellectual and media elites, and you hear “racism!” Criticize our president for his policies, and you are immediately labeled a...
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