By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps, as gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder (R-Calif.) was accused of having been, they’re the “black face of white supremacy.” What black cops are not, however, is a policing panacea that will bring peace to savage streets and end the law enforcement “war on blacks.” This isn’t just because you can’t end something that isn’t occurring, but also for another reason:

Black and Hispanic officers are actually more likely to shoot black suspects than white cops are, according to studies.

What’s more, this phenomenon could be attributable to — and certainly is exacerbated by — affirmative action policies, which subordinate merit to racial quotas in the name of increasing police departments’ non-white representation.

The January 10 death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols at the hands of five Memphis police officers might’ve been at least partially a result of this quota mentality, too. For at least two of those officers were hired under dumbed-down, leftism-inspired standards, according to a report.

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By Selwyn Duke

While meeting with European allies last March, Joe Biden said that they “talked about how we could increase and disseminate more rapidly food shortages.” This was on camera at a press conference. The media didn’t seem to care much, though, and when the statement itself was disseminated online, Facebook labeled it “false news.” Perhaps the idea was that Biden, being senile, will spout falsehoods.

Then again, senile people can also forget to suppress what they’re supposed to keep hidden, some may counter.

Note, too, that the White House never corrected Biden’s odd statement, according to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Whatever the truth, here’s what requires no guesswork: There have been increasing food shortages since that time. Egg prices have recently been skyrocketing, for example, which authorities attribute to the avian flu’s effects. Yet now there’s a report about poultry farmers complaining that their hens had suddenly stopped laying eggs for extended periods, a phenomenon they blame on corporation-sourced chicken feed. They also claim that when they switched to locally sourced grain, their birds immediately became productive again.

This all, of course, sounds like a conspiracy theory, and maybe that’s all it is. Or is it a conspiracy fact?

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By Selwyn Duke

There was a race factor in the death of Tyre Nichols, but it wasn’t “white-supremacist systemic racism.” Rather, when the 29-year-old was killed by five Memphis cops on January 10, he became part of an all-too-common pattern — the phenomenon whereby 92 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks.

What’s more, averred commentator Jason Whitlock (who is black, by the way), the Memphis tragedy and the violence committed by young black males generally mirror each other in another way: They both reflect the culture of fatherlessness/single motherhood that, in particular, plagues the black community. (Seventy-three percent of black children are born out of wedlock.)

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By Selwyn Duke

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Talkback-01-27-2023

By Selwyn Duke

In 2014, Barack Obama’s DOJ sued the Pennsylvania State Police for treating male and female applicants equally. Earlier this month, some media and politicians were up in arms because Missouri lawmakers voted to hold female House members to a dress-code standard approximating that of their male colleagues. But “equality” has always been more ploy than principle. Now there’s yet another example of such, this one relating to school dress codes.

Very upset about them is one Minerva Canto, writing at the Los (Lost?) Angeles Times. “As parents, we expect that our sons and daughters will be treated equally if they attend a public school as is guaranteed by the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and Title IX…,” she states.

But while Canto may expect this equal treatment, she apparently doesn’t welcome it. After all, she later complains that “dress codes skirt laws against discrimination by regulating items of clothing for all students rather than creating separate rules for girls and boys.” Got that?

Treating students equally and thus conforming to anti-discrimination law is to skirt anti-discrimination law. It’s sort of like a Zen Koan, I guess.

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

When we say someone doesn’t take pride in his appearance or home, we mean he doesn’t take care of it. Is it any different when a person doesn’t take pride in being American?

This is an important question to ponder given a recent poll’s finding that only 36 percent of millennials — and a mere 16 percent of Gen Z adults (18-25) — are “proud to live in the United States.”

National pride has, in fact, been declining with each succeeding generation in a phenomenon that, as commentator Steve McCann puts it, means “America’s future is bleak.” If you’re a globalist aiming to breed “citizens of the world,” however, you’ll think our future is bright.

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By Selwyn Duke

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history,” noted 1984 author George Orwell. All’s not well, too, because this is precisely what’s happening today — a point on which both the Right and the Left agree.

Consider a major story in the news: the rejection of the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies (APAAS) course by appointees of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Liberal DeSantis opponents might say he’s attempting to obliterate black students’ understanding of their history, while the governor’s co-ideologists will say he’s trying to prevent the obliteration of all students’ understanding of their history.

For sure, getting history right matters, and the APAAS fails miserably in this regard….

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By Selwyn Duke

Many millions of Americans dutifully sort their trash, believing that recycling saves the environment and facilitates sustainability. But what if this greentopian ritual not only doesn’t help the Earth, but actually harms it and the economy to boot?

Recycling most plastic, for example, would be a fool’s errand and therefore isn’t done, as even the environmentalist organization Greenpeace admits. What’s more, much “recycled” plastic has in the past been shipped overseas — and then dumped into the ocean.

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By Selwyn Duke

Forgetting the Declaration of Independence’s words while campaigning in 2020, Joe Biden famously said that all “men and women [sic] created by — you know, you know, the thing.” Now Kamala Harris has quoted the Declaration, too, and perhaps knows the “thing” but doesn’t want to say the thing.

That is, while giving a Sunday speech in Tallahassee, Florida, marking the 50th anniversary of the now-overturned, unconstitutional Roe v. Wade opinion, Harris cited the rights mentioned in the founding document but omitted the very first one: life.

Moreover, while she did say that we are “endowed” with certain rights, she neglected to mention the endower: God. And many find this just too convenient to have been a Biden dotard moment, as mentioning a right to life and the Creator of life wouldn’t exactly have buttressed the pro-prenatal infanticide appeal she was issuing.

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