From my childhood growing up in a town bordering largely African American communities of East Orange and Newark, NJ to my adult life in Asbury Park, NJ and now Los Angeles, I have had a front row seat to myriad incidents of overt racism.
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For Americans, "Gun" is a proper noun. It's about as close to God as it gets. AR15s, AK47s, UZIs, M1911s, Model 10s, Wingmasters, Glocks... the list of our favorite firearm friends goes on and on like Lindsay Lohan's rehab. Guns sell boatloads of movie tickets, boost CNN's ratings (if that's even possible) and breed the insanity we love to ignore.
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Who can argue that cable TV teems with killer comedy. I mean, have you watched CNN, MSNBC or FOX News channels lately? Good gracious, those guys are funnier than a bus filled with school kids careening into a canyon.
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Call the doctor. The healthcare-cum-abortion debate is sickening.
If the historic dust-up proves one thing, it’s that God handles the gavel for the United States government. It’s painfully apparent just how little separation there is between church pews and congressional chambers.
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Who can argue that cable TV teems with killer comedy? I mean, have you watched CNN, MSNBC or FOX News channels lately? Good gracious, those guys are funnier than a bus filled with school kids careening into a canyon.
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This is the land of the free. But it’s also the home of very little brave anymore. And whatever brave there is rarely withstands the test of time, no matter how brief that time may be.
For half of Americans have become a rather limp lot. Champions of change for change’s sake. Arbiters exclusive of reason. Advocates of futility.
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We must ask ourselves: how long do we continue to cast votes that cannibalize dreams? How long do we cast votes in a process that often requires the lesser of two dream-killers? How long do we believe that bad people are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote?
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The masses know what Facebook is but are loathe to abandon its trappings. Facebook is a colossal front for the corporate schemes of an ostensibly maladjusted, boundlessly manipulative young man.
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Media outlets and those who helm them live and die by our eyes. Freedom of Speech lives and dies by the bundles of dough that hail it or kill it. That combo alone makes for treacherous turf.
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We're in this mess of a Trump presidency today, partly due to the Washington Post. They were the folks who, in 2011, invited Trump to their dinner table at a time when he was neck-deep in his birther conspiracy war against that black dude who occupied that big white house.
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Stripped of its guise, however, social media is brandish, brackish bunk acutely positioned for technologists to monitor our goings on in order to gather market intelligence and sell widgets or worse.
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As long as gun victims are in our thoughts and prayers, it's all that matters. America will remain the greatest nation on earth, regardless of its appetite for eating itself alive.
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