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Making the grade or paying for it: Meritocracy is a lie; so are quotas

March 14, 2019March 14, 2019 by Shay

So, let’s talk a bit about the college admission testing scam, bribery, fraud story that involves dozens of parents with enough money to try to buy their kids’ way into college but somehow not enough to educate and raise them well enough to make it into college on their own. This is the part where, …

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Categories Current Events, Education 1 Comment

How can you trust the system when the system put him there?

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 by Samuel James

I love Elijah Cummings. His “Come on!” at the end of the Michael Cohen hearing is my new ringtone. I agree with him a lot, but we differ is when he says, “We’re better than this!” If he’s talking about the country, I don’t think we are. I look at all those republican reps during …

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Categories Current Events, Racial and Cultural

All the news that should have been…other than Jussie

February 25, 2019 by Samuel James

Jussie. Yikes. As of this writing Jussie Smollett has been charged with a felony count of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report. It doesn’t look good for him, but just for a moment I invite you to take into account what else has been happening. Back in the 1990s there was this dude …

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Categories Current Events, Racial and Cultural
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