Too often, the liberal media (and social media for that matter) jump on one comment without context. This time, it’s new Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, a noted neurosurgeon. In his comments to employees at HUD, Ben Carson spoke of the American Dream, of immigration and his vision for the department. Yet, […]
Alexander Hamilton lives to fight another day to stay on the $10 bill, while Andrew Jackson is now off the $20 bill in favor of famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Photo by US Department of State
The two U.S. allies have reached an agreement that includes a financial compensation package and a formal apology from Japan for Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery (who were called “comfort women”). Finally, the hatchet is buried.
WASHINGTON — A recent piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic suggested that the U.S. government should pay slavery reparations to black Americans for Jim Crow laws and other policies. That piece was not received well by many, but led to a recent op-ed in Reuters on the same topic. Reuters published an opinion piece by […]
During a discussion of Mitt Romney’s campaign ads, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews said that Joe Biden’s highly publicized “chains” comments were code words for slavery: We’re used to the word by Biden the other day, and he can get a little over the top, and his language was ‘chains.’ Now obviously it was a […]