Kamala Harris
Well, almost no one was expecting this, Vice President Harris. You are thisclose to getting the Democratic nomination for President, making you the torch bearer of the youth (compared to the other guys), and the next woman to try to shatter the glass ceiling. I am here to help. Unlike
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Why the hate for Caitlin Clark? And the disrespect. Within a few days last week, Clark got cold-cocked by another player, who got a minor penalty until the WNBA upgraded her foul a day later and Clark learned she would not be on the U.S. women’s basketball Olympic
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A friend of mine, knowing how much I like to be helpful, asked me if I knew the PHL Reparations Task Force was looking for volunteers. The what? It is a committee set up by City Council, saying Task Force members “must have the capacity to provide pro bono professional
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Nikki Haley’s clumsy fumbling of questions about American racism — call it Haley’s comment — leads me to wonder how many of us truly understand what is perhaps the most divisive factor among Americans. It eclipses class, politics, gender, religion, geography, even IQ. Do I believe America is a racist
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Two stories on one page of the Philadelphia Inquirer led me to question my sanity. Wait — actually the sanity of America, because these two stories simply could not have existed through most of the long span of my life. In one, the Perkiomen Valley school board is struggling to come
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Here’s an unpleasant truth: During the Holocaust, in the Nazi death camps, some Jewish prisoners used their skills to escape extermination, even as their brethren were marched into gas chambers. Vice President Kamala Harris (left), has her facts wrong, says Dr. William Allen One example were Jewish musicians who
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A former Penn State Abington faculty member has filed suit against the university claiming, in effect, he was required to cut breaks for minority students, and was let go when he refused to go along with what he called the racist policy. A faculty group has pushed back against the
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From the musical "Avenue Q," the song "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist": Everyone's a little bit Racist, sometimes. Doesn't mean we go around committing Hate crimes. Look around and You will find, No one's really Color-blind. Maybe it&
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I am awake, I am not Woke. Thanks to loving, kind parents, my sister and I were taught there was injustice in the world -- racial, economic, and other -- and we should do what we could to fight it. (My parents were a mother and a father, not a
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It was bound to happen. If you are a white person and don’t loudly and endlessly proclaim that you are “anti-racist,” then you are a racist to the Woke. If you are a white person and have actually done things to help Black people, then you are derisively slurred
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The recent approval of the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court led me to reflect on her “privilege,” meaning two caring parents who valued education, the gift of high IQ, plus her determination and her quality education at Harvard. I imagine she had a
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I was moved by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s remarks after Senate confirmation of her nomination. Here they are in their entirety, with portions I particularly liked in boldface. Thank you so much, Mr. President. It is the greatest honor of my life to be here with you at this