Hate isn’t really a states’ rights issue.
Removing the confederate flag is the right thing. No one should be under it. The flag should rightfully be placed in a box and buried. If it must be displayed, then place it in some historical context, under glass in some museum.
But to keep it flying in any official capacity gives false hope to the wicked.
The past was ugly, and over.
It does not live on.
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On the race beat, we were all wearying of Rachel Dolezal’s tale knowing there was something more important to talk about.
But Dylann Roof’s old fashioned racism with the fresh-faced millennial look wouldn’t have been my first choice among replacement subjects.
Roof’s massacre was deplorable. And his tirade against blacks, sounded like the things said about Filipino immigrants like my Dad in one of the most racist periods in California in the 20s and 30s.
It made for an unlikely Father’s Day gift I wasn’t expecting.
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Seeing is definitely believing.
The NY Times has obtained this video of a South Carolina cop shooting an unarmed African American, Walter Scott.
It’s yet another reminder how video enabled phones are a necessity when you see injustice, or racism.
Without it, it’s your word against the bad guys, the stalemated justice we’re used to getting.
:21 seconds in and you see what murder passing as justice looks like.
Just within the last few weeks we saw what the absence of video has meant in fighting discrimination in the Ellen Pao case.
We saw what the video meant in exposing NYPD’s Patrick Cherry’s racist tirade.
And now this.
Make sure you carry your smart phone if you want justice in America.
Scott was stopped for a broken tail-light in North Charleston, South Carolina on Saturday.
The video forced authorities to act quickly. That’s how strong the video is.
You have to wonder, how did we have justice before video?
I’ve been stopped for a tail light before. I’ve often felt the fear of being non-white in a gun crazy white community.
North Charleston is an example of what happens more often than we think. But only because we have a video.
Nothing like having instant replay on life itself.
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Defending open marriage isn’t like defending the open meetings or open records act.
You can argue the subject has no place in a public policy debate. But character is character and asking your wife about an open marriage is important if you believe as most conservatives in South Carolina do, that conservatives are nothing if they don’t stand for some kind of family values agenda.
Gingrich can’t talk about that issue because it exposes him as a hypocrite. But he could and he did, attack the media for bringing up the issue. Those louts.
And then, he used his loud and brash defensiveness to advantage by pointing out how it shows what a forceful, passionate leader of the free world he could be.
We must not underestimate a governmental leader’s ability to defend wrongful acts! Gingrich as president would have lots of opportunities for that.
I’d feel better if Gingrich was as passionate for poor, down and out Americans as he was for cheating on his wife. But that’s not what we have here. Instead, we have a selfish egotist, who finds it chivalrous to at least ask before screwing over his wife.
He’d be just as thoughtful of the American people if given the chance, you can bet on that.
