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Patricia L. Dickson
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October 24, 2020
The NeverTrumps' dilemmaAs it began to look as though candidate Donald J. Trump was headed to clinch the 2016 GOP nomination for the presidency, a group of establishment Republicans sharpened their attacks against him. The group consisted of establishment elected...
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December 8, 2019
Why are able-bodied adults with no kids eligible for food stamps?When the news broke that the Trump administration is scheduled to make changes to the federal food stamp program (SNAP) that would strengthen eligibility requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD), the liberal media kicked their f...
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September 8, 2019
Has liberalism become a religious cult?Since the election of President Donald J. Trump, we are experiencing some of the fiercest resistance to a president in my lifetime. We have seen the rise of the violent leftist group Antifa along with a plethora of videos that clearly show members of...
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August 4, 2019
President Trump broke the rule to never hold a black politician responsibleDemocrat Representative Elijah Cummings, along with the members of his party, have been feigning outrage and concern about the living conditions for illegal alien children at the border for over a year. The outright shameful part about his so-called ...
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June 23, 2019
The slavery reparations argument is built on a false premiseThe growing debate on reparations for African-Americans finally intensified to the point that Democrats held a congressional hearing to discuss H.R. 40, a bill that proposes a commission on reparations. Many African-Americans believe that ...
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September 7, 2018
Pastor who eulogized Aretha Franklin faces backlashThe Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was laid to rest on August 31, 2018. Her funeral was an eight-hour star-studded event that featured many recording artist and prominent speakers. Seated in the front row, behind the pulpit, we...
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May 17, 2018
Things are not looking good for DemocratsPresident Donald Trump's election has exposed a number of things about the Democratic Party. The most damaging and possibly irreparable is the glaring fact that the party has not had a clear message to run on since John F. Kennedy....
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March 1, 2017
Liberals losing the 'Trump is a racist' narrativeLiberals entered the 2016 election year using the same weapon against their Republican opponents that they've used for the past fifty years: Republican candidate X is a racist. There need not be any evidence to support the claim. Ever...
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September 19, 2016
Democrats Are Losing Control of Black AmericansRegardless of the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump's rise will force the Democratic Party to eventually have to address how its elected officials have neglected black Americans, its most loyal constituency. The Democrati...
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May 15, 2016
The real Donald TrumpThe best indicator of someone's true character is how he treats others (employees, family, and friends) and whether or not he gives back to the community (time or resources). We have learned Hillary Clinton's true character from stories...
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March 8, 2016
What is the real reason why the GOP Establishment want to stop Trump?The two current frontrunners for the Republican Party nomination for the presidency are Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Marco Rubio is a distant third or fourth, depending on the primary. The GOP establishment has not hidden its intention to t...
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March 5, 2016
Therapy sessions on the rise in liberal cities thanks to Donald TrumpIt appears that Donald Trump is already creating new jobs in the field of psychology. He is at least improving the economy in the D.C., area with patients visiting their therapists more often due to experiencing a new source of stress because o...
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January 26, 2016
Trump and the state of the Republican PartyOne of the often repeated memes from the Republican Party establishment against a Trump presidency is that he will somehow tarnish the party’s image. This assertion has caused me to question: what exactly is this image of the party that t...
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January 13, 2016
Fat people: The latest victims of oppressionAs if we didn't have enough groups of people claiming victim status, we can now add fat people to the list. College campuses across the country are including a new academic field in fat studies that focuses on combating weightism, fat stigm...
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January 8, 2016
Cosby accuser's entire story discreditedThe Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office has reported that it will not charge Bill Cosby for a sexual assault claimed by Chloe Goins. Goins's claim to have been sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby at Hugh Hefner’s playboy mansion...
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January 5, 2016
Examining Bill Cosby's AccusersNow that Bill Cosby has been formally charged with felony sexual assault for a decade-old claim, both he and his accuser, Andrea Constand, will have their day in court. More importantly, the public will finally be allowed to hear the facts of t...
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December 19, 2015
Trump exposes the weakness in the presidential candidate fieldThe backlash that Donald Trump has received after he proposed a temporary halt on Muslim immigrants entering our country has left me scratching my head. I am not at all shocked by the response coming from liberals (they cannot be expected to co...
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November 23, 2015
Liberal academia is reaping the just rewards of its laborThe events unfolding at universities across the country are the result of over thirty years of liberal academia’s indoctrination. College campuses are fertile ground, replete with impressionable young minds that are filled with mush....
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November 10, 2015
Black intellectual admits why liberals fear Ben CarsonThere is not too much excitement in the black community for the 2016 presidential campaign. This time around, the Democrats have given blacks a choice between an old white woman and an old white man. Boring. Or they can choose the i...
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November 6, 2015
Transgender advocates are expecting the public to play a gameThe two transgender bathroom cases in the news this week brought out the usual proponents and opponents on the issue. The fallout from the outcomes of both cases reveals that the transgender advocates and their liberal cohorts expect opponents ...
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October 30, 2015
The elephant in the room in the abortion debateI got into a heated discussion about abortion with a liberal feminist classmate of mine the other day. I noticed at the onset that she was very particular in framing all of her pro-choice rhetoric with the word choose. She contended that ...
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October 16, 2015
Liberals' income inequality concerns built on false premiseI received an email a while back from a college student asking for my comments on the issue of income inequality for a research paper he was doing. My response to him was in the form of a few questions. How can everyone earn equal income?...
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October 13, 2015
Americans Are Void of Critical Thinking SkillsNever has there been a time in history requiring that an individual be equipped with critical thinking skills more than now. The biggest problem that America is facing today is the inability of the vast majority of the citizenry to think critically. ...
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October 12, 2015
When did Democrats change their platform on gay marriage? and Abortion?It appears that Hillary Clinton may not have the black vote in the bag. Breitbart is reporting that The Church of God in Christ, a historically black Christian denomination with over 12,000 churches in the United States, has turned down multipl...
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September 22, 2015
Report from the California Republican ConventionI had the honor of attending my first California Republican Convention this past weekend. It was held at the Marriott Hotel in Anaheim, CA, 18-20 September. Upon entering the registration area, I was pleased to see such a diverse group of people of a...
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September 18, 2015
Why Critics Do Not Understand TrumpWhen criticizing Donald Trump, critics cite his supposed inability or refusal to articulate his immigration plan while giving his campaign speeches or during the two presidential debates. They claim that it is proof that he is all rhetoric and no sub...
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July 14, 2015
Liberals have been seething for years because of Dr. HuxtableWhen I first heard that Bill Cosby had been accused of and sued for drugging and sexually abusing Andrea Constand in 2005, I immediately knew (regardless of whether or not he was guilty) that he was being targeted because he had spoken out against th...
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July 9, 2015
Will same-sex marriage be the nail in the coffin?It appears that the the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling on same-sex marriage may have forced the black church to finally admit to the Democratic Party’s stance on the fundamental beliefs of the Christian Church. One would think that the ...
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May 3, 2015
Liberals blaming white supremacy for BaltimoreWhen the video went viral of Baltimore mother Toya Graham hitting her knuckleheaded son about the head for participating in the Baltimore riots, most Americans praised her for her motherly love and instincts. Ms. Graham stated in an interview i...
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April 23, 2015
Spineless leaders have infiltrated the militaryLiberalism has succeeded in infiltrating the U.S. military, America’s last bastion of discipline, honor, and respect. Liberals have succeeded in destroying the family, education, the economy, and just about everything they set their sight...
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April 19, 2015
Black Atlanta educators cheated black kids out of an educationWhen the news of the Atlanta Public School System cheating scandal was first reported in 2009, I hoped that the investigation would find that such a heinous crime against children would not turn out to be true. The cheating scandal first became...
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April 14, 2015
What Doors Has Hillary Opened For Women?While appearing on MSNBC's the Morning Joe show, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina was chastised by Mika Brzezinski for her criticism of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Carly Fiorina has been publicly criticizing Hillary’s...
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March 26, 2015
A Much-Needed Conversation: Liberal Policies and RaceThe recent events in Ferguson have ignited racial flames to the point that everywhere we look someone is talking about the need for a conversation about race. Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz launched a cheesy initiative (that has now been d...
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March 20, 2015
The Democrats Have Short MemoriesAccording to Rep. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Republicans who oppose Loretta Lynch are asking her to “sit in the back of the bus”: “This is the first African-American woman in the history of the United States to be nominated to serve a...
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March 18, 2015
White privilege was invented to discourage blacks kids from trying to succeedAfter reading yesterday’s AT article "Teaching Racial Hatred" by David Deming, professor of arts and sciences at the University of Oklahoma, I realized something that had not occurred to me earlier about the goal of teaching college k...
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March 9, 2015
Teacher admits he wrote Common Core to end white privilegeA professor at Granite State College and chair of the history department at the Derryfield School in Manchester, New Hampshire admitted to writing the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts in order to end white privilege. Accord...
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March 3, 2015
Proper English Grammar Is Now RacistIt seems like not a day goes by without my reading about some new absurdity. I ran across an article written by some left-wing lunatic who purports to be an English teacher and who is part of what she calls the “social justice movement...
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March 1, 2015
Black Media Exec Exposes The Deal That Got Sharpton His Show On MSNBCByron Allen, a legendary TV talk host, has joined with the National Association of African-American Owned Media to file a $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit against Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Sharpton’s National Action Network, the NAAC...
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February 25, 2015
Republican Elected Officials Should Emulate Governor Scott WalkerI am glad to finally hear a conservative that knows how to handle liberal so-called journalists when asked stupid gotcha questions. When Governor Scott Walker was asked if he thought President Obama is a Christian, he responded with a logical common ...
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February 14, 2015
Celebrating Black History Month with Unsung PioneersBlack History month is set aside for celebrating the contributions and accomplishments of black Americans. However, the month of February has instead been hijacked by race-baiters masquerading as Civil Rights leaders, angry black celebrities, and Dem...
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January 30, 2015
What exactly does the race industry want from white America?Nothing frustrates me more than for someone to rant on and on about something while never really specifying the desired outcome that he or she is seeking. Or for someone to imply that I somehow owe him something without specifically telling me ...
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December 9, 2014
Who Is to Blame for How Black Males Are Viewed by Others?In a heated exchange, PBS host Tavis Smiley told Sean Hannity that“racism is still the most intractable issue in this country, it's a part of everything we do still.” He made this claim while discussing the incidents surrounding...
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December 7, 2014
Has Black America Reached the Point of No Return?I never imagined that we would reach a point in this country where facts would be ignored on a national level. We seem to have reached it with the Michael Brown case. As I watched the spectacle of our elected official in the Congressional Black Ca...
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November 23, 2014
Cosby's Accusers' Claims Are Full of HolesSince the media has decided to bombard me with stories of Bill Cosby's alleged rapes, I believe that I have a right to examine his accusers' claims. As each new woman surfaces and recounts her alleged sexual assault by him, I am left with mor...
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November 16, 2014
How the White House Press Corps Has Changed Over the Past Thirty-Five YearsI recently recorded and later watched a PBS four-part documentary on Ronald Reagan. I was a teenager just entering high school when President Reagan was first sworn into office, so of course I was not particularly tuned in to the current events durin...
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November 14, 2014
Black Liberal Intellectual Downplays Mia Love's Historic ElectionI knew it wouldn’t take long for liberal black intellectuals to weigh in on the historic election of the two black Republicans to Congress. The election of Representative-Elect Mia Love (R-Utah) and Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) ma...
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November 13, 2014
Black Democrat Lawmaker Calls Ohio Democrat Party a PlantationA black Democratic member of the Ohio State House of Representatives decided to wait until after the midterm elections to file a lawsuit against his own party. State Rep. John E. Barnes, a Cleveland Democrat, has filed a defamation lawsuit agai...
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November 7, 2014
Democrats Finally Overplayed Their HandAlthough it feels like it was a long time coming, the Democrats have finally gotten their just deserts, and I must admit that it is a guilty pleasure to witness their meltdown. I always knew that their lies would one day backfire on them. I...
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November 2, 2014
What Do Gays Really Want From The Church?After a federal judge in Idaho recently ruled that the state’s ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional, ordained ministers Donald and Evelyn Knapp who own the Hitching Post wedding chapel in the city of Coeur d‘Alene, were asked by a gay...
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October 21, 2014
What I Have Learned From Debating Young LiberalsIn the recent months, I have been engaged in political debates with liberals mostly under the age of 40 (I am over the age of 40). These debates have taken place in person, via email and political discussion blogs. In each occurrence, I was contacted...
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October 8, 2014
Black Congresswoman Lectures ConstituentsYou cannot make this stuff up! Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge (Ohio), at a town meeting hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus, lectured the black audience for what she called complaining. She spoke in a “you should be ashamed of yourself...
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October 5, 2014
Norman Lear Admits To The Attitude White Liberals Hold Towards Black AmericansIn a stunning confession, Norman Lear, a liberal sitcom writer during the 1970s, outright admits to the unfavorable attitude he held toward black Americans in the television shows that he created and wrote for. Lear made those comments in an article ...
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October 2, 2014
Is Racism A Barrier To Success In 2014?I have received pushback from black Intellectual liberals for suggesting that poverty in the black community is the result of culture rather than racism. They contend that I am out of touch with the black community on issues affecting the poor. They ...
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September 30, 2014
Poverty In The Black Community Is The Result of Culture Not RacismI have often been accused by friends (black, white and all others in between) of being too logical, to the point that I am inhibited from seeing other people’s point of view ( I am not sure if that is a compliment or insult). They say that I en...
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September 19, 2014
Honesty, Common Sense, and A Sound MindAfter over six years of the Obama presidency, the scales are finally falling off the eyes of some liberals. I am shocked to hear liberals saying the same things about President Obama as conservatives (including me) have been saying since 2007 when he...
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September 12, 2014
Jay Carney Is Still Defending President ObamaJay Carney, President Obama’s former press secretary, has moved on from lying behind the podium to lying on CNN. He and Senator John McCain got into a heated discussion following President Obama’s anticipated ISIS strategy speech. The two...
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September 7, 2014
The Christian Message vs Social JusticeThe events in Ferguson, Missouri have propelled several issues afflicting the black community to the forefront. In most inner cities, it is common to find a church on every corner, which leads me to wonder what the pastors in these communities are te...
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August 26, 2014
Respectability and RacismI recently came across an article entitled “No One Treats African-Americans Worse Than We Treat Each Other: The troubling self-flagellation in Ferguson's black community” published in the New Republic. When I first read the title, I t...
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August 22, 2014
Poverty Is Not The Cause of Criminal BehaviorAs the events in Ferguson, Missouri continue to unfold, a common excuse being offered for the riots and looting is poverty and income inequality. An article written by retired NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar outlines what he calls the reasons for a co...
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August 11, 2014
What Democrats Fear Most Is A Black ConservativeBlack leftwing writer Chris L Robinson over at the Daily Kos recently took me to task for my article "Why Black Americans Should Vote Republican" published here at American Thinker. He began his article by first disparaging the American Thi...
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August 6, 2014
'Progressives' Is The Wrong Name For Liberal DemocratsIn recent years, Liberal Democrats have adopted the name Progressives. Is the name appropriate? Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines progressive as moving forward or onward, happening or developing gradually over a period of time, or characteri...
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August 1, 2014
Is America Too Far Gone?A recent poll by The Pew Research Center is reporting that America is more divided than ever. According to the poll, 66% of consistently conservative Republicans think the Democrats’ policies threaten the nation’s well-being and half (50%...
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July 29, 2014
Booker T. Washington vs NAACPAccording to a video of a black female interviewed on camera at 2014 annual NAACP convention, black conservatives were not welcome to attend. The reason for her intolerance, she claims that conservatives do not espouse the same values as the NAACP. S...
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July 24, 2014
With Friends Like Democrats, Black Americans Don't Need Any EnemiesUnion president, Lee Saunders, of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees sent a letter to the United Negro College Fund President Michael Lomax announcing that the union was severing ties with UNCF because he accepted a donat...
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July 20, 2014
Black Christians and the Myth of Prosperity PreachingWith the in-your-face display of greed and arrogance of the so-called pastors on the reality show Preachers of L.A., I began to wonder: when will black Christians wake up and say enough is enough? Although there are some white pastors of mega-c...
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July 20, 2014
How the Media Uses Appeal to Emotion to Distract from IssuesWith the help of Glenn Beck, the left wing media has managed to turn the attention away from why the illegal children are crossing our borders in droves. The focus on the reported diseases that they are bringing with them, not to mention the cost to ...
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July 10, 2014
Is Requiring Patrons To Dress Appropriately Racist?It appears that even dress codes are racist. A Bar Louie in Minneapolis has implemented a dress code for its establishment. Some of the locals are suggesting that the dress code is racist and is an attempt to keep black people out of the establishmen...
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July 6, 2014
Politics and The Christian ChurchWhenever the subject of politics and religion comes up, some individuals wish to believe that the two are not connected. Yet, many people are concerned with the speed of America’s moral collapse. Throughout both the bible and world ...
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June 27, 2014
Are All Black Americans Aware that The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Exists?When I learned of the deceitful campaign tactics used in securing Thad Cochran’s victory over Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel, I became enraged to the point of losing a good night’s sleep. My first reaction was disappointment and disbe...
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June 17, 2014
Why Black Americans Should Vote RepublicanAs the failures of our current president and the Democratic Party continues to pile up every day, rather than admit that their chosen party’s policies are ineffective , black American’s favorite counter is Why should we vote for Republica...
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June 12, 2014
Will America Ever Be Forgiven For Slavery?Growing up in the South, the narrative surrounding slavery I heard was that the Africans were walking around free in their own country, minding their own business when white men came over in ships. The white men attacked, chained, kidnapped and force...
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June 12, 2014
Obama Betrays Black Americans with His Amnesty StanceIt appears that President Obama and the Democrat Party are willing to throw Black Americans overboard in exchange for amnesty. In a quest to maintain power, the Democrats have discovered that there are not enough black American voters to keep them in...
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June 3, 2014
Socialized Healthcare: Up Close and PersonalSince I have relocated to the United Kingdom (via my current employer), I have had an opportunity to witness the effects of Socialized Healthcare. England’s National Health Service (NHS) was born July 5, 1948. The intent of the NHS was to provi...
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May 23, 2014
What White Democrats Really Think About Black AmericansOn any given day of the week, one can turn on the liberal media and hear how the Democratic Party is the one party that cares for black Americans. Liberal pundits such as Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell, and of course Al Sharpton are forever...
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May 14, 2014
Black Americans and the Obama DilemmaWhen Black Americans decided that they would throw their full support behind Barack Obama in both of his presidential runs, they set in motion a rolling stone that cannot be stopped. It is foolish and dangerous to give your unyielding support to...