Some friends and I were engaged in a conversation about police shootings of unarmed black males that were leading to protests and in some cases, riots. I brought up a scenario I had read about where the police officer who fired the fatal shot was black, the police chief of that city was black, the…
Continue ReadingWhy Jalen Rose is Right
The members of the US Olympic men’s basketball team to compete in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics were announced on June 28, 2021. Only one of the selected members of the team, Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers, is white. Jalen Rose, a former NBA player and current ESPN commentator, said the following on his radio…
Continue ReadingThe Wealth Gap: Income
A 2018 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland looked at a variety of possible causes of the stubborn wealth gap between white Americans and African-Americans including generational wealth, home ownership and investment returns. They determined the most influential cause of the wealth gap is the income gap. We looked at some ways…
Continue ReadingThe Wealth Gap: Education Part 2
In the previous blog we discussed how expanding school choice in primary and secondary schools might lead to better educational outcomes for African American students, leading eventually to better career outcomes. The next step is to look at training after high school. Of course our society needs more black CEOs and doctors, so ensuring that…
Continue ReadingThe Wealth Gap: Education Part 1
There is no question that the wealth gap between white Americans and African-Americans has remained stubbornly consistent since 1960. Even with all of the Civil Rights legislation that has passed including the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, 1968 and 1991, which outlawed discrimination based on color and race in employment, strengthened voting rights, desegregated schools,…
Continue ReadingLogic, MLK and BLM
When the U.S. civil rights movement gained renewed momentum in the 1950’s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the most prominent voice and face of the movement. Dr. King was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and espoused non-violent civil disobedience as the method for achieving the objectives of the movement. If you watch videos of…
Continue ReadingMore Spock’s Constructs
In a previous blog, I discussed how humans create constructs, narratives, paradigms or presuppositions to fill the gaps between what we observe and what we can’t explain. That article logically leads to the question, “what are More Spock’s presuppositions – what are the things More Spock believes to be true that are unprovable?” Here are…
Continue ReadingLogic and Human Constructs
I once took a graduate level theology course. Our first assignment was to write a paper outlining our presuppositions. The professor defined presuppositions as those things you believe to be true that are not provable by science. As you would expect in a theology class, most of the students began by stating that they believed…
Continue ReadingWhy “More Spock”?
I had certainly noticed the trend during the Bush and Obama years that CNN/MSNBC and Fox News alternated between being essentially state media when their guy was in office and opposition media when the other guy was in office. This really ramped up during the Trump years to a theater of the absurd, at least…
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