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Richard Dawkins Stripped Of Top Humanist Award For Using Science To ‘Demean Marginalized Groups’
The American Humanist Association (AHA) has revoked its top “Humanist of the Year” honor from British biologist and noted atheist Richard Dawkins for the academic’s history of demeaning marginalized groups under “the guise of scientific discourse,” the group announced Monday, pointing to a recent statement that questions the validity of transgender people and suggests Black identity can be “assumed when convenient.”
Newt Gingrich accuses Biden, Harris of parroting Chinese propaganda on race in America
‘The American president and vice president are doing as much damage to the U.S. as any propaganda campaign I can remember,’ former House speaker says.
Los Angeles Mayor Boosts Police Funds as Crimes Rise
Amid calls to defund the police, the progressive mayor of Los Angeles is instead increasing law enforcement’s funding—but only by a fraction. Crime rates in the city continue to climb. The president of LA’s Police League suggests this is caused by last year’s police cut.
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(READ) Public trust in CDC declines across all demographics
Public trust in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) declined from May 2020 to October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to a recent Rand study. Rand asked Americans about their level of trust in the CDC, the United States Postal Service (USPS) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in May 2020 and […]
April 22, 2021 | Nightly News Rebroadcast | Video: 53 Minutes 08 Seconds
Senate Republicans officially propose an infrastructure plan that’s less than half the cost of President Joe Biden’s plan, 20 state attorneys general urge President Biden not to expand the Supreme Court, and Biden announces an ambitious goal at a two-day virtual climate summit.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded April 22, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 59 Seconds
Blow-Dried Hair BS … How the Media and Biden Distract From Their Compromise and Crisis. “Joe Biden doesn’t have control of his government,” Navarro said. “There’s a segment of Biden’s administration that wants open borders. They stuffed the ballot box in 2020…in 2024 and beyond they want to stuff the ballot box with illegal aliens.” Guests are: Natalie Winters, Todd Bensman, Dr. Peter Navarro.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded April 22, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 59 Seconds
Fiction Checkers … CCP Compromised Journalists Attack Frank Speech. Guests are: Michael Yon, Natalie Winters, Mike Lindell.
Bannon’s War Room | Evening Edition | Recorded April 22, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 21 Seconds
Thunberg-ism … The Great Reset at the Sistine Chapel.
“They were prepared for this to go sideways in a bad way,” she said. “Why was there a single officer a guy that was that dangerous without any backup?” Guests are: Patrick Coffin, Alison Morrow.
Opinion: Ben Carson: Moving our focus from equality to equity won’t defeat racism. It’s another kind of racism.
This goal is not only un-American — it is impossible to attain.
Equity’s worldview, as I see it, starts with the proposition that the White majority is guilty of bigotry and oppression, and that all differential outcomes between groups are solely the result of that bigotry and oppression. Equity proponents therefore argue that retributive actions against the majority are necessary to correct those wrongs. Reparations for slavery — which a House committee has voted to study — are such an action; so are hiring programs that specifically recruit racial minorities, campaigns to support only Black-owned businesses and firms that require their board of directors to have a certain percentage of minorities. A perfect example of equity is the anti-poverty stipend recently announced by the city of Oakland, Calif., offered only to residents who are “BIPOC” — that is, Black, Indigenous or people of color. The program explicitly excludes poor White families.
I’ll say it again: Where is the outrage for the unsolved murders of 51 Chicago women?
Chicago figured out how to build a skyscraper and reverse a river’s flow, but it has not found the killers of these woman, most of whom were Black.
I don’t give a damn who’s tired of hearing it. I’m not gonna stop saying it: If 51 dogs were slain and discarded in trashcans, abandoned buildings and vacant lots across Chicago, set on fire and dismembered, this city would be up in arms.
Why not for at least 51 women slain here since 2001, and whose murders remain mostly unsolved?
Why not for their families who seek solace and justice for these daughters whose innocent blood cries out from their cold graves?
Can you hear them?
Imagine their last gasps, amid the torture they suffered from their murderer who strangled or asphyxiated them, desecrated them?
Can you envision their final desperate struggle? Hear their cries for help before they at last succumbed to death — the light of life seeping from their frightened eyes? Visualize their last moments in the hands of someone who hated them rather than being embraced by someone who loved them?
I can. I must.
The cold. The desolation of their bodies dumped, half dressed, defiled. The pain. The shame. Crying out for help. And yet, no one came. No one answered.
Why shouldn’t this city now have to answer?
The depravity. The inhumanity. This stark insanity of a city where they could figure out how to build a skyscraper, reverse the river’s flow, and design a world-class skyline that shimmers. A city that cannot find — at least has not found — these women’s killers.
And why not?
What if it were 51 women mostly white instead of 51 women mostly Black? What if they were mostly middle class instead of mostly poor and working class?
What if they lived and died in a posh Near North Side neighborhood, or along the Magnificent Mile, rather than on the South and West Sides on poverty’s isle? Would these murders still be largely unsolved? Might this city then care?
What if these women had not been all summarily — and falsely — characterized as “prostitutes” and “drug addicts”? Would we be so easily dismissive of their fate? Would we still deem them as perhaps “less than,” if not altogether “disposables,” rather than as flesh and blood and heart and soul, created in the image of God?
What if “she” was your daughter, your mother, your sister, your aunt, your granddaughter, the girl next door? What if we could see in the eyes of those among these victims whom life may have pushed into the gutter, the soul of a broken woman, not just some “whore”? Then would this city do more?
For Lollapalooza and an assortment of downtown entertainment fests, resources flow. And when murder, rape or a string of robberies occur beyond the hood, no stone is left unturned. Those victims garner headlines and nightly news because they are of a different hue, or well to do.
Remember Jussie Smollet and how quickly police got to the bottom of the truth?
But Black women and girls disappear, or are raped and murdered damn near everyday. And what does the city do?
All the official hand wringing and explaining sounds like one big excuse. And the inability to solve the murders of the 51 just evidence that this case is clearly not a priority for the mayor, or the police, or for far too many.
Maybe I’m wrong. What I do know is that some don’t want to hear it anymore. In so many words and with looks of dismay they say, Shut up, John Fountain, you’ve already said that. Write about something else, let it go.”
I can’t. I won’t. And I don’t give a damn what “they” say. I said it again. And I’m gonna say it some more.
Email: Author@johnwfountain.com
John Fountain led his class at Roosevelt University in a yearlong project on the 51 murdered Chicago women, To view the project, visit: www.unforgotten51.com
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