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Years ago, much of the behavior of young people that we see today would have never been tolerated.
Good analytical thinking requires that we do not confuse one behavioral phenomenon with another.
Today's discrimination cannot go very far in explaining the problems faced by a large segment of the black community.
There's little question that many charter schools provide superior educational opportunities for black youngsters.
Younger black people today have no idea of and have not experienced the poverty and discrimination of earlier generations.
The bottom-line question is whether our nation can survive the divisions that we see today.
Often those who are willing to take the time are not necessarily the most talented people but people with a political agenda.
The tables have been turned on white women claiming they are black.
The violence, looting and mayhem that this nation has seen over the last several months has much of its roots in academia.
A referee's job, whether he is a football referee, baseball umpire or a Supreme Court justice, is to know the rules of the game and to ensure that those rules are evenly applied without bias.
Seventeenth-century poet and intellect John Milton predicted, "When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation."
Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has just published "The Devil and Karl Marx," a careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx.
In matters of race and other social phenomena, there is a tendency to believe that what is seen today has always been. For black people, the socioeconomic progress achieved during my lifetime, which started in 1936, exceeded anyone's wildest dreams.
Check out any professional and most college basketball teams. Their starting five, and most of their other 10 players, are black, as is 80% of the NBA. This does not come anywhere close to the diversity and inclusion sought by the nation's social justice warriors.
Institutional racism and systemic racism are terms bandied about these days without much clarity. Being 84 years of age, I have seen and lived through what might be called institutional racism or systemic racism. Both operate under the assumption that one race is superior to another.
Parents, legislators, taxpayers and others footing the bill for college education might be interested in just what is in store for the upcoming academic year.
Most people who call themselves Marxists know very little of Karl Marx's life and have never read his three-volume "Das Kapital."
Purging society of names associated with evil is going to be quite a task.
I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd's death — rioting, looting, wanton property destruction, assaults on police and other kinds of mayhem by both whites and blacks.
