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  • Opinion: Tuberville poster child for privilege, preferential treatment

    Elwood Watson, Syndicated content|Updated Oct 22, 2022

    Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville recently suggested in comments railing against reparations that Black Americans were “the people that do the crime.” Speaking at a Donald Trump rally for Republican candidates in Nevada, Tuberville described Democrats as engaged in a battle to take from white people and give to Black people, whom he stereotyped as criminals. “No, they’re not soft on crime,” Tuberville said, “They’re pro-crime. They want crime. They want crime because...

  • Opinion: Support of Walker exposes Republicans' actual moral values

    Elwood Watson, Syndicated content|Updated Oct 15, 2022

    In past political climates, such an October surprise would be grounds for a serious acknowledgment or resignation by a politician from a race for public office. Unfortunately, we are in the post-Trump era of politics, where a Twilight Zone political theater of the deviant and bizarre has become the norm. Over the past few days, a continual drip of bombshells have roiled Herschel Walker’s senatorial campaign. The Republican senate candidate from Georgia has faced a nonstop o...

  • Opinion: We must make it clear to men it's okay to be people

    Elwood Watson, Syndicated content|Updated Oct 8, 2022

    'Tis is the season to promote male masculinity. There has been no shortage of rhetoric emanating from a number of right-wing politicians warning about the supposed decline of male virility contributing to the death of "real manhood." From Mike Pompeo decrying and declaring war on the "wokeness that is supposedly weakening the military," to Senator Josh Hawley's allegations of " the left's attack on men in America." Earlier this summer, shameless Fox News host Tucker Carlson...

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