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The Quick Scan by Mike Ramey

 

TWO SAYINGS AND TWO SINS

      Of the quotes I have been blessed to have collected over the years, these two have impact on this month’s column.  They come from two different eras but are pretty much on the same side of the same coin.  The first saying comes from one of my heroes, Booker T. Washington.  Here is his quote: “A whining, crying race may be pitied…but seldom respected.”

        Let me break this first saying down as it reflects upon our race in these last days.  While many of our youn

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The Quick Scan by Mike Ramey

 

SO, WHY DO DEMOCRATS HAVE A LOVE AFFAIR WITH SOCIALISM?

      I believe in calling something by its proper name, and pointing out some obvious trends where they are applicable.  Take anything that has to do with the British Royals.  Notice how many women “ooh” and “aah” at royal weddings?  Especially American women.  The reason why should be obvious: Admiration for the (perceived) power and prestige of being a royal!

      This also holds true when it comes to socialist, communist, or totalitaria

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The Quick Scan by Mike Ramey

 

THINK TWICE ABOUT SIDING WITH THE OPPRESSOR

      Let me warn you up front.  You might want to get your smelling salts out, as we are going to take the ‘long way’ around the mountain on a very sensitive topic.  Please make sure that your trays are in an upright position and keep your torches and pitchforks among your carry-ons as we take off into the wild blue.

     Interesting thing about the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk.  Not the fact that he had the money to buy the ‘Twitterverse’, but who

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When I was in elementary school, I couldn’t find history books on Slavery.  Regrettably, I was left to imagine what Slave life entailed on plantations in the Big House and in the fields of burning hot sun - the places where Black captives, stolen from the shores of Africa, endured their lives and their fate for generations. 

It’s hard for people to believe that it was GOD’s WILL for enslavement such as ours to fall on a “race” of people who became proverbs and bywords in the “Four Corners of the

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