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The Middle Class Is a Trap
The middle class is mostly comprised of everyday jobs such as doctors, lawyers, school teachers, firemen, retail employees, etc. Most of these people were taught to go to school, get a job and work for 40 years, some people didn't even get to higher education. They were programmed for safety and security. So taking a risk looks like an opportunity to fall into poverty so they stay stuck at the edge looking at others who either succeeded, died trying, or somewhere in the middle.
By Marcus Lathan6 years ago in The Swamp
Double Standards - Are They Now Politically Acceptable?
Not so very long ago, being able to prove a charge of double standards, against anyone, was to subject that person to public ridicule and humiliation, but now it is so commonplace, especially on social media, that it seems to be ignored. Has it become acceptable for a political group to complain bitterly about other groups behaving just as they have previously? In the ongoing attempts to frustrate the British referendum result, to leave the EU, the remainers used a raft of measures that were undemocratic and outside the usual norms of political behaviour. Then when a leave Prime Minister took a step that was actually within his constitutional powers, the remainers made a huge fuss and noise claiming all sorts of terrible crimes were being committed against the British constitution.
By Peter Rose6 years ago in The Swamp
In America, the Black Man Is the Most Targeted and Sought After
Black men are the most sought after men in the world and yet also the most targeted. In 2019, black men have been targeted on several levels. There have been videos where black men were being followed or approached by police with either false information or no information. One video that went viral on YouTube and Facebook showed a black man from East Texas gets approached by the police when he was playing basketball with his kids. The officer called him by a name that was not his name and then, made a try to cuff the man then, the officer called for back up and officer that showed up as back up brought a device to try to find the man they approached as the suspect they were trying to apprehend. Then, picture of the suspect they were after did not match the identity of the man that they approached. The man frustrated and angry did tell the officers that he would report them for what they had done to him. This kind of incident has become almost normal and common place between black men and the police when rhetoric of racism and White Supremacy is being shouted from the White House Lawn.
By A.J. Jones6 years ago in The Swamp
Our National Nightmare Decimating Dreams
We can’t seem to wake from this current national nightmare. Nearly 60 years ago this week, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. invited us to dream at the Lincoln Memorial’s steps. It’s a dream which some of us had been deluded into thinking would come true soon.
By Rev. Jason Carson Wilson6 years ago in The Swamp
Gentrification: A Viewpoint
Philadelphia is all that it was known for, from the LOVE sign down to the infamous cheesesteaks. Though all of those things were well and good; the bad was just as equal in the amount that happens in the city of Brotherly Love. With every success that came with the city, the failures and realities were much greater. Even as a young child, I knew that the city that birthed me had a strong duality to it. I would run up the infamous Rocky stairs only to walk down the old, piss-smelled subway tunnel to head home to the "hood." Neighborhood Murals done by non-profit organizations that have beautiful concepts is only to be mirrored by street artists paying tribute to a fallen homie. Artists tags their calligraphy, etching their existences in high places throughout the city. No one wants to be forgotten, erased out of history yet as I ride through the city; I see otherwise. History and beauty illuminate throughout every corner of Philadelphia.
By Jay Williams6 years ago in The Swamp
Ejection of Breitbart Reporter from Beto Speech is Inconsistent with Democracy
I just saw the news, that a Breitbart reporter, Joel B. Pollak, who actually is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News, was ejected, apparently for no valid reason (he wasn't being disruptive, though his mere presence was deemed as such) from a Beto O'Rourke speech at Benedict College.
By Paul Levinson6 years ago in The Swamp
'These Are the Times that try Men's Souls'
"These are the times that try men's souls." Remember that quote? Some 250 years later we are again facing times that try men's souls. From wave after wave of violent carnage that shows no signs of abating, an economy all based upon a house of cards that is poised to crumble at a minutes notice, a world on the edge of a Global Warming catastrophe, to the massive depth and scope of corruption that is in not only our political system, but now has reached our legal system as well. These are all signs of the times that try men's souls.
By Dr. Williams6 years ago in The Swamp
