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Commentary / Current Events

We’ve gotten through a pandemic before and can do it again

Many are going a bit stir crazy with all the shut downs, extended quarantines, hand washing, and mask wearing. Just know that none of what we are doing now in response to Covid-19 is new. The last major pandemic was the 1918 Spanish Flu that left a worldwide death toll of between 50 to 100 million people; roughly 500,000 in the US alone.   To be clear, Covid-19 is not the flu but the last major pandemic that the world faced was an influenza pandemic. During that time, the world took the same measures; social distancing was widely practiced. There...

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Commentary / Current Events / News / Politics

What Should We Think About The Trump Administration’s Approval and Cancellation of Iran Strike?

Image credit to maxpixel.net The New York Times reported that the Trump administration had approved of military strikes against Iran. Then, while planes were in the air and ships were in position, called off the attacks. Supposedly the attacks were to be retaliatory strikes for the shooting of a United States unmanned Global Hawk surveillance drone by Iran. The operation was underway in its early stages when it was called off, a senior administration official said. Planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down, the official...

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2 Cops Dead – NYPD Declares War on Black People

View image | gettyimages.com Earlier today, a tragedy occurred in Brooklyn, NY.  Two police officers were shot and killed while in their patrol car by a deranged person who earlier in the day had shot is girlfriend in the stomach. The death of the police officers was not warranted – they did not deserve it. As soon as we got word of what happened, we immediately began telling everyone to be extra vigilant.  Why? Because we expected right wing media and conservatives to pounce on this and paint a broad stroke across all of us (black people).  In addition to the police...

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Commentary / Current Events / Race Relations / Twitter

Only Black people riot

It’s a belief that is most certainly not true yet often believed and repeated. Mainstream media, social media, talking heads, pundits (indie or otherwise) have been in over drive in the wake of the grand jury’s decision not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of unarmed teenager Mike Brown. The accompanying protests and riots fill timelines, news feeds, streams, and airwaves. The ugly sides of some people are on full display in 140-characters or less. In the discussions, people may and will disagree yet no matter how much they try to justify their point, the words...

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Stephen A. Smith Is Being Unfairly Demonized

#166943585 / gettyimages.com Some topics can’t be discussed because emotions run too high. There are certain triggers that shut people’s faculties of reason down completely and doesn’t allow for further or clear listening. Even if you agree with their fundamental point, there is an absolute, all or nothing, position that gets clung to in those situations. Stephen A. Smith is learning that right now in the wake of his comments within a discussion about NFL player Ray Rice. This didn’t go over well. Many people immediately went into “he’s blaming the victim” mode and completely tuned out the real point...