The present round of protest is different. The participants are people of every race, ethnicity, sex, age, and religion.
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Thankfully, my colleague, a white airman from Colorado, pressed me, a black sailor from North Carolina, on the issue. “I’ve served with you, saluted alongside you — I know how you feel about the flag. But do you think the police treat black people differently?”
There was no shrugging off this question.
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As the protests continue across the United States, we risk finding ourselves lost in the same pattern of unproductive behaviors that have long plagued the country.
An obsession with modes of racial protests rather than with the meaning of them belies an unwillingness to face the flaws they expose in the nation’s ability to live up to its ideals and fulfill its obligations to the citizenry.
Public order and the rule of law are elemental to the well-being of liberal democracies, but the values on which our republic is founded are far more important than any material loss from protest.
After all, nearly 250 years after Massachusetts colonists destroyed private property by dumping the contents of a British East India Company shipment into the Boston Harbor, no one gives a damn about the tea.
However, the principle that inspired that protest — “no taxation without representation” — endures.
If we are to capitalize on the present crisis to strengthen America and make the Union a little more perfect, we are duty-bound to grapple with the abiding sense of injustice that is felt in black America and fuels civil unrest today, just as it has for centuries.
I gave up on Facebook a year ago, have a Twitter account I never look at, same with Instagram. Okay, I’m old, and maybe I’m a hermit but I don’t miss them. Closest I come to social media is here, and on Fark.com. Tali Sharot calls Twitter the amygdala of the internet, which is designed to give immediate, emotional reactions to events and abhors rational thought. I would encourage everyone to see what happens if you deactivate your Facebook or Twitter or what every social media account you rely on for a month. Social media is not making us better people
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister Francis Bellamy (1855-1931).
It was originally published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892. Bellamy had hoped that the pledge would be used by citizens in any country.
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In 1954, in response to the Communist threat of the times, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words “under God,” creating the 31-word pledge we say today.
Tomorrow’s WSJ – Lockdowns disproportionately hurt small minority-owned businesses:
“No other one-, two- or even 12-month window of time has ever shown such a large change in business activity,” Mr. Fairlie says. “For comparison, from the start to end of the Great Recession the number of business owners decreased by 730,000 representing only a 5 percent reduction.” Judging by the number of active small businesses, the Covid lockdown was the equivalent, in only weeks, of four Great Recessions.
“No group was immune to negative impacts of social distancing policy mandates and demand shifts,” Mr. Fairlie writes. But the damage wasn’t spread evenly. About 441,000 black business owners, or 41%, disappeared from the data. For Latino businesses the figures were 658,000, or 32%; for immigrants, 1.1 million, or 36%; and for women, 1.3 million, or 25%.
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
Some of the accounts originate in Russia. Even some of the ones who comment on these very boards.
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But, it’s OKAY. They are on the side of The Messiah.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/america-begins-to-see-more-clearly-now-what-its-black-citizens-always-knew/
By Theodore R. Johnson
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The present round of protest is different. The participants are people of every race, ethnicity, sex, age, and religion.
✁
Thankfully, my colleague, a white airman from Colorado, pressed me, a black sailor from North Carolina, on the issue. “I’ve served with you, saluted alongside you — I know how you feel about the flag. But do you think the police treat black people differently?”
There was no shrugging off this question.
✁
As the protests continue across the United States, we risk finding ourselves lost in the same pattern of unproductive behaviors that have long plagued the country.
An obsession with modes of racial protests rather than with the meaning of them belies an unwillingness to face the flaws they expose in the nation’s ability to live up to its ideals and fulfill its obligations to the citizenry.
Public order and the rule of law are elemental to the well-being of liberal democracies, but the values on which our republic is founded are far more important than any material loss from protest.
After all, nearly 250 years after Massachusetts colonists destroyed private property by dumping the contents of a British East India Company shipment into the Boston Harbor, no one gives a damn about the tea.
However, the principle that inspired that protest — “no taxation without representation” — endures.
If we are to capitalize on the present crisis to strengthen America and make the Union a little more perfect, we are duty-bound to grapple with the abiding sense of injustice that is felt in black America and fuels civil unrest today, just as it has for centuries.
SeanT over 4 years ago
I gave up on Facebook a year ago, have a Twitter account I never look at, same with Instagram. Okay, I’m old, and maybe I’m a hermit but I don’t miss them. Closest I come to social media is here, and on Fark.com. Tali Sharot calls Twitter the amygdala of the internet, which is designed to give immediate, emotional reactions to events and abhors rational thought. I would encourage everyone to see what happens if you deactivate your Facebook or Twitter or what every social media account you rely on for a month. Social media is not making us better people
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
Day 52 of the Georgia Economic Recovery, and Flag Day for all Americans. (Offer not valid in CHAZ)
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Day 1241 of the Right Wing control of the Presidency, Supreme Court, and both Houses of Congress.
With a somewhat Left tilt for the House only, 530 Days ago.
Are you better off than you were on Jan 19, 2017?
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The American Flag…
…without the ideals that make the U.S.A…
The U.S.A….
Is just a swatch of three colored cloth….
rossevrymn over 4 years ago
C’mon, Stantis……..this is so lame.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Since it is Flag day….
Seems like a good time to remind and inform that…
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister Francis Bellamy (1855-1931).
It was originally published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892. Bellamy had hoped that the pledge would be used by citizens in any country.
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In 1954, in response to the Communist threat of the times, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words “under God,” creating the 31-word pledge we say today.
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https://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm
STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 4 years ago
More like antisocial media!
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
Tomorrow’s WSJ – Lockdowns disproportionately hurt small minority-owned businesses:
“No other one-, two- or even 12-month window of time has ever shown such a large change in business activity,” Mr. Fairlie says. “For comparison, from the start to end of the Great Recession the number of business owners decreased by 730,000 representing only a 5 percent reduction.” Judging by the number of active small businesses, the Covid lockdown was the equivalent, in only weeks, of four Great Recessions.
“No group was immune to negative impacts of social distancing policy mandates and demand shifts,” Mr. Fairlie writes. But the damage wasn’t spread evenly. About 441,000 black business owners, or 41%, disappeared from the data. For Latino businesses the figures were 658,000, or 32%; for immigrants, 1.1 million, or 36%; and for women, 1.3 million, or 25%.