As a political conservative, I am tired both of suffering the indefensible in Donald Trump’s tweets and sound blurbs, as well as suffering the misunderstandings, over-reactions, and insults of the left when we don’t hear the same intent and meaning in what Trump often in-eloquently...
My liberal friends waste a lot of time trying to pin down Donald Trump as a fascist and racist. As I have admitted previously, Trump is old enough to carry the passive cultural racism of the previous century, but I don’t think he is a...
I resist the racist interpretation of everything conservative for a few reasons. 1. Reductionism First, it’s a sloppy reductionist approach to a complex issue. We know that conservatives and president Trump object to specific ideologies like Islam that have little to do with race. Even...
Over the last few days, I’ve had a heated discussion with a pastor friend of mine about ‘white privilege,’ which, if you don’t know, can be defined something like this: A term for societal privileges that benefit white people in western countries beyond what is...
This post is part of a series. Listening to yet another daily horror committed by ‘extremist’ Islamists, I again became incensed at how many people (millions) are victims of Islam, and began to think of the many ways we ought to recognize it as evil and...
In The boy who cried ‘racism!’, I broached the subject that I think that those who are complaining that the modern anti-Obama rallies and other conservative actions in the news are racist in nature are making bogus claims. But if not racism, what ARE the...
I have a confession to make – I like NPR. Even worse, I like Juan Williams, probably one of the best known black independent commentators out there – not only is he a regular contributor to NPR, but he’s a regular on the O’Reilly Factor. ...
One of the grossest sins of leftist ideology is the practice of reverse racism – that is, accepting racist and hateful remarks against the majority, while reviling even basic criticisms of trends in minority populations, let alone the common-sense use of profiling in criminal investigations....
