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“The white man’s guilt further added to his rage.” -Tim Madigan, The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 During the Tulsa Race Massacre (also known as the Tulsa Race Riot), which occurred over 18 hours on May 31-June 1, 1921, a white mob – looting and burning and shooting and bombing –…
It’s become the motto of our time to watch what you say, be sensitive about what you say. The number of people and organizations that believe they are special is at an all-time high. They believe they shouldn’t be criticized. Jokes shouldn’t be told about them. It’s anti-American. It’s anti-free speech. The issue these days…
“If you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here that’s really a storm that was just totally overpowering, nobody’s ever seen anything like this — and what is your death count as of this…
It’s never been a better time to be exceptional, or a worst time to be average. – Scott Galloway A CONVERSATION WITH SCOTT GALLOWAY We’ve been eager to make sense of the gender divide our country faces. What do you believe is behind it? And how should we be looking at it? We’re in an…
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. – Pope John Paul II By Brent Landau This April 20th, Christians will be celebrating Easter, the day on which the resurrection of Jesus is said to have taken place. The date of celebration changes from year to year….
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. – Donald Trump 132 years ago today, the Allegheny Athletic Association defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club with the help of William “Pudge” Heffelfinger, the first person ever paid to play football. Heffelfinger, the son of…
In 2020, 100 years after the massacre, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proclaimed November 2 to be “Ocoee Massacre Remembrance Day.” Let us always remember to never forget. The Ocoee massacre was a white mob attack on African-American residents in northern Ocoee, Florida, which occurred on November 2, 1920, the day of the U.S. presidential election. The town is in Orange County near Orlando….
Many, many Americans – and even some of your immigrants – come up to me on the street with tears streaming across their cheeks and down their chins and ask – very strongly – ‘Sir, should we really NOT believe what we see and hear with our own eyes and ears?’ Intimates chewing the fat…
“Be calm as I and my family are. We are not hurt and remember that if anything happens to me, there will be others to take my place” – Dr. M.L. King Jr., that same year, after his own home was bombed. Home of Another Bus Boycott Supporter Bombed On the night of August 25,…
You can easily imagine Barker Ajax as a ranch hand, but a farmer? Well, it’s possible. Might’ve been in the early 1990s, the old west of the past century. Turns out he was hired primarily to keep felonious pests and inquisitive varmints away from the cash crop. Wrangle dogs and corral various critters. This he…