No one is saying athletes should not have social consciences or forums to express their political views. But the game is not such a forum, not if they expect people to attend or tune in. Ostensibly, the NBA boycotts, which other sports are adopting, are illogical. But then, the animating concept behind the player protests — “systemic racism,” derived from...

So it’s come to this, NBA? After all that slobbery prostration at the feet of Black Lives Matter and so-called “systemic racism”? A routine in-game confrontation between a black player and a white player is cause for the black player to call the white player a “b**ch a** white boy”? Source: Really, NBA? Black Player Calls White Player ‘B**ch A**...

By: Phil Gramm – wsj.com – July 30, 2020 When unemployment and poverty rates hit record lows in late 2019, while retirement accounts and average household incomes surged to record highs, Joe Biden understood that general-election voters would never go for Bernie Sanders’s tax-and-spend socialism or Elizabeth Warren’s command-and-control version. Mr. Biden also bet, taking longer odds, that the Democratic...

In a few short years Black Lives Matter (BLM) has influenced blacks more than black Christians have. This explains the outrage over George Floyd’s homicide by former officer Derek Chauvin, and the deafening silence over high black abortion rates and black-on-black murders. BLM ignores real issues hurting black communities because black Christians do. Source: 6 Reasons Black Christians Must Denounce...

The Washington Redskins have announced that after 87 years they will change their name. The team’s name and logo have long been targeted as offensive to some, and understandably so. Recent events created the momentum to make it happen. Will it stop there? Maybe not. Source: ‘Redskins’ Is Gone, But Changing ‘Washington’ Would Be a Much Bigger Job

During the tumultuous summer of 1969, two Black musicians accused the New York Philharmonic of discrimination. Earl Madison, a cellist, and J. Arthur Davis, a bassist, said they had been rejected for positions because of their race. Source: To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions – The New York Times

I have always believed that bureaucrats working on behalf of the American people should be visibly neutral politically. We shouldn’t know what their political ideologies are or what political parties they belong to or the causes they support. Source: Federal Government Stamp of Approval of BLM

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.” —Nelson Mandela George Floyd, an unarmed African American, died in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Memorial Day, May 25, 2020, after a White police...

The horrific murder of George Floyd has renewed a sincere cry from many evangelical leaders to speak out against racism in America. Racism is a great and ever-present evil. As followers of Jesus, we must uphold the truth that all people, regardless of skin-color, ethnicity, sex, or socio-economic status, are made in God’s image, with inherent worth and dignity. Nearly...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – dailycaller.com – July 9, 2020 A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter.” In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics. She won a huge audience as she intended. But her video also came to the...