If the NFL is a plantation, and the processes of the Scouting Combine are akin to those at bygone slave auctions, then why is Colin Kaepernick trying to return to a life of chains? As Delano Squires put it, “So he’s asking to return to the same ‘plantation’ where he toiled for years before being manumitted? I’ve never seen an abolitionist who hated his freedom this much.”
Examining all credible theories of crime helps us identify the true cause of the problem — which is what we should want.
I apparently touched a nerve when I wrote in a recent op-ed that exceptionally high homicide rates among young low-income black males in big cities can be traced to a “subculture of violence,” which I defined as “a propensity to resort to violence to resolve interpersonal conflict.” What really set off hundreds of readers was the following: “This traces back to the nineteenth century South, where whites manifested similar behavior, dubbed an ‘honor culture’ by historians. Blacks, overwhelmingly southerners in the nineteenth century, adopted the white southern subculture of violence and took it to northern cities in the Great Migration.”
What started off as a brief struggle between two people has threatened to drive a lasting wedge between two communities.
Video of a black customer being manhandled by an Asian shopkeeper was followed by vitriolic threats and loud protests outside his hair and beauty shop in Peckham, southeast London.
The shopkeeper, Sohail Sindho, 45, said he was protecting his shop from a suspected shoplifter and that he was also attacked. He claimed the video footage did not tell the whole story.
During the George Floyd riots in the spring and summer of 2020, BLM rioters were essentially allowed to wreak havoc as they pleased without consequence. The nation watched as rioters burned and defaced buildings, and liberal-controlled cities did little to stop it. Washington, D.C., for example, refused to prosecute rioters who defaced buildings, yet, when pro-life protesters used chalk on an abortion clinic, the city threw the book at them, and two pro-life activists were arrested in 2020.
Nine years ago today, Michael Brown was shot dead by policeman Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. The death created the Black Lives Matter movement, which prior to that was only a hashtag, and took it to national fame, based on the claim that Brown was shot with his “hands up” while pleading “don’t shoot.”
Will the next race riots be Made in China?
Remember how Russia supposedly elected Trump using only the television ad budget of a failed congressional race in Amish country?
The Senate intelligence report actually found that “most of the videos” put up by Moscow “pertained to police brutality and the activist efforts of the Black Lives Matter organization”.
A controversial Calgary professor is suing the University of Lethbridge over its decision to cancel a guest lecture she was scheduled to deliver at the school in February.
Frances Widdowson — who was fired from Mount Royal University following heavy criticism of her comments on Canada’s residential school system and the Black Lives Matter movement — is suing the southern Alberta institution alongside student Jonah Pickle and philosophy professor Paul Viminitz, who invited her to the school. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms filed the lawsuit July 26 on behalf of the three applicants.
Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King and his left-wing super PAC quietly settled a defamation lawsuit with former Philadelphia district attorney candidate Carlos Vega, who King falsely accused of framing a black man for murder.
Readers of the New York Times — once legitimately known as America’s newspaper of record — were recently told in a news story that a new report from the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) claimed a 9% drop in the homicide rate in 30 major U.S. cities since the start of the Coronavirus Pandemic in early 2020.
Exactly 10 years ago, Black Lives Matter was born from “a love letter” to Black people that Alicia Garza penned on Facebook.
Responding to the the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin a year earlier, on July 13, 2013, Garza wrote: “We don’t deserve to be killed with impunity. We need to love ourselves and fight for a world where black lives matter. Black people, I love you. I love us. We matter. Our lives matter.”
Patrisse Cullors responded to Garza’s post with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter.
South Fulton, Ga., is one of the Peach State’s youngest cities, with a founding date of 2017. It’s also the eighth-largest city in the state, and it encompasses much of the southern end of Fulton County, hence its immensely clever name.
Not all that long ago, race rioters were destroying cities while elected officials cheered them on. Anyone who questioned the hate group and its message that only lives of a certain skin color matter was denounced.
Juneteenth, a holiday that most Americans had never even heard of until Congress made it a federal holiday in 2021 to celebrate the end of slavery, is starting to acquire some very unpleasant associations.
One person is dead after at least 20 people were shot outside a suburban Illinois shopping center overnight when hundreds gathered for a Juneteenth celebration.
The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. on Route 83 near Honeysuckle Lane in Willowbrook, Illinois, Battalion Chief Joe Ostrander with the Tri-State Fire Protection District told WLS.
Witnesses said the massive crowd of more than 300 people had gathered for a Juneteenth celebration that turned violent.
20 people were shot during a Juneteenth celebration in Illinois
The shooting happened around 12:30am on Route 83 near Honeysuckle Lane, WillowbrookNowadays it is not safe to go to any outdoor event! pic.twitter.com/yAMbWOWXIU
— Ronald Kelly (@RonK3l) June 18, 2023
The head of the Black Lives Matter movement in Calgary has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly impeding access to a Catholic school.
Court records show Adora Nwofor was charged with mischief on June 2, in connection with an incident on May 26, for allegedly “wilfully obstructing and interfering” with the use of a property “primarily used for religious worship and educational purposes.”
