Tag: Al Sharpton

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America give credit to the mainstream media for calling Democrats to account for their silence over the sexual assault and harassment allegations lodged against Hollywood mogul and prolific Democratic Party donor Harvey Weinstein.  They also fire back at Twitter after the social media service censors a video from Tennessee GOP Senate hopeful Marsha Blackburn because her efforts to stop the sale of aborted baby body parts were considered inflammatory and likely to elicit negative reactions.  And Jim and Greg sigh as the latest NFL protest chaos includes ESPN host Jemele Hill getting suspended for encouraging Dallas Cowboy fans to boycott team sponsors, Al Sharpton vowing to boycott the NFL unless Hill is reinstated, and President Trump gloating over the Hill suspension.

#StopWhitePeople2K16

 

RA-stopwhitepeople2k16Unfortunately I did not make up this hashtag. In fact, it’s not a hashtag in a social media search-term way. It’s the name of a course for Residential Assistants (what I remember calling dorm parents) at SUNY Binghamton.

Let me repeat: #StopWhitePeople2K16 is a training course for those responsible for our kids domiciles while at college.

According to the Binghamton Review “the event was meant to teach RA’s about “understanding diversity, privilege, and the society we function within.” This type of rhetoric is commonplace in the university, and has become inseparable from the concept of social justice.”

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Ben Stein argues in The American Spectator that Obama, Sharpton, Holder and de Blasio are the best friends the Republican party has ever had, since Reagan, at least electorally. A pity so few Republicans have the courage to say some of the things he wrote, including about white America’s racial generosity, as evidenced by who […]

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I have my own ideas, but I’m curious what the Ricochetazzi thinks: Why isn’t the African American grievance brigade coming to the defense of Bill Cosby? Where is Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton when a black man’s livelihood is being threatened solely on the accusations of a group of white women? Isn’t this a modern […]

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