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When I visited the Amazon Prime page last June, only 17 reviews remained and the rating dropped to 4.5. Its hard-won credibility had been erased. What happened? 
Since the 1960s, the Left has not only racialized us but tried to impose a racial order grounded in liberation ideology upon our society. It sought to divide Americans into the oppressed “people of color” versus the “white” oppressors. The Left gaslit many American Jews into believing that their white skin was the main feature of their identity. It was only from this place of whiteness — along with renouncing all the privileges that came with said identity — that these Jews could side with the oppressed in their fight against systemic racism. In the days after October 7, many of these Jews, expecting some form of human understanding or sympathy, were stunned to see their allies siding with Hamas. These Jews then found themselves cast to the side of the oppressors along with the charges of apartheid, genocide, and occupation. The only permissible Jew was one who denounced Israel.
The great sin of Affirmative Action was that it kept the idea of race alive in our minds. It turned everyone into an identity of immutable characteristics. It deluded us into thinking we could use the poison of race to engineer redemptive innocence from America’s racist past.
With these words, he spoke what many of us — Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele to the man on the street — have fought for since the 1960s. Trump’s plain words echoed King’s timeless quote that man should “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
An All-American in high school, she rose to national prominence after leading Iowa University to two consecutive NCAA championship games — the last one taking place this past March. She then went straight into the WNBA after being selected first overall by the Indiana Fever in the draft. She set multiple records, made the WNBA All-Star team, and won the rookie-of-the-year award as well as a spot on the All-WNBA First Team.
I know some of you may be following the trial of Daniel Penny in New York City. For those of you who don’t know, Penny is a Marine veteran who was 24 years old at the time he allegedly choked Jordan Neely, a subway platform performer, to death.
But in the 1960s, while involved in the Civil Rights movement and teaching, he met a Holocaust survivor and felt moved to declare to his students that “I was there, I saw.”
One side believes that America is systemically racist and the other side believes that America has made much progress since the 1960s.
My paternal grandfather, born in 1900 to parents who were born in slavery, marched for equal rights for all because he believed in the American principles despite being denied them. 
The one lesson I learned early in life due to my deafness is that life is unfair. It just is. Yet, at the same time, life is full of endless opportunities.
The complainant was Menlo-Atherton High School’s newspaper, M-A Chronicle (@TheMAChronicle), and they objected to the inclusion of a two-second clip in the Killing America trailer. I checked the trailer’s @YouTube page and, indeed, it had been removed.
Pastor Brooks recently met with two ex-gangsters who were once destined to kill one another. Varney Voker ran the Black Disciples as a top bosses & ruled with ruthless business savvy. A block away, Lavondale Glass ran the rival Gangster Disciples with equal ruthlessness. 
From my church located in one of Chicago’s most violent South Side neighborhoods, I watched with disquieting fascination the public trial of Claudine Gay. I followed the debates on the influence and impact of the DEI movement not just in the case of Gay but throughout America.
These folks also ask, “Why can’t they see what we see?” I’ve been in this culture war since my teens and I have asked myself this question too many times.
Lately, I've thought about what this courage looks like. I think it comes down to two essential things: 1) shedding white guilt and 2) embracing colorblindness.
Were people wrong to demand accountability from the 34 Harvard organizations that signed a letter that held the "Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence" and that "the apartheid regime is the only one to blame?”
People often told, "Oh, it’s nothing, just check the box and you’ll get an upper hand." Indeed, I was once offered a $25,000 MLK scholarship, a lot of money in 1993. So checking the black box was tempting, yes.