Now famous federal officers in Portland, Oregon, are members of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and US Border Patrol deputized by DHS agency, Federal Protective Service (FPS), to help FPS secure federal property and investigate riot suspects. Critics accuse them of being "secret police." Name tags on uniforms were removed to avoid doxxing of agents home addresses and families. The military style of these uniforms are due to use for riot duty and officers SWAT team role in their home agencies, requiring durable, chemical and ballistic resistant garb. Agency insignia are on camoflauge uniforms but not in large print. Derrick Hollie , the Black conservative who recently debated this deployment on Roland Martin Unfiltered, could have researched this information. Instead, his passion but lack of specifics miscast him as supporting authoritarianism instead of supporting restoring order. These officers aren't secret police, they're...
Cold Hearted Conservatism on Capitol Hill. When I see Republican US Senators making an average of nearly $4000 monthly balk at continuing a measly $600 unemployment enhancement to good Americans left workless by a government mandated shutdown, I'm repulsed by their cold hearted conservatism. This stands in stark contrast to warm hearted conservatism myself and others practice. I'm not one of the GOP elite. Donors and national media don't have me on speed dial. What I am is a traditionalist who preserves one tradition, helping others, above all else. God called me years ago to buy hamburgers and gift cards to feed the homeless in my area. Were I a cold hearted conservative I would have ignored them all around me or worse, yelled, "Get a job!" But I'm not one. My heart and mind will never accept seeing people hungry in America. Clearly not the case among the lavishly housed on Capitol Hill. Cold hearted conservatism on Capitol Hill is not only morally wrong and ...
If ones only source of conservative content is Fox News, One America News Network or many online sites, one would conclude it's a White ideology, with a short list of Black folks making appearances or serving as regular contributors. As with liberalism, by virtue of this being a (shrinking) majority White country, that accounts for the predominant pigmentation of conservatism. However, Black America has its own conservative traditions, independent of strains practiced by mainstream ones. We have religious conservatives whose fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism and Islam is as old school as any observed by ethnicities popularly considered representative of those faiths. Our business and professional class, regardless of how they vote, are intensely conservative and not given to anything remotely considered "radical" or worse, "militant." Voting twice for Obama is about as risky as they get. Ironically, even Black nationalists, often considered separatists, ...
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