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Image: Sean Krajacic via Getty Images On Friday, November 19th, Kyle Rittenhouse, who stood accused of shooting three people, killing two at a BLM protest last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was found not guilty on every charge against him. I would say I'm shocked but then I'd be lying. I was a kid when I first saw The Empire Strikes Back. Even in the days of the 1980s, the big revelation that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father was no secret to me. I had a friend who blabbed much of the details of the trilogy. But the revelation was so wide spread that even at the time, it was so embedded in pop culture that it was more likely that far more people knew of the reveal than those that didn't. Still, hearing Darth Vader say "Luke, I am your father," was more of an eye raising moment for me than finding out that Rittenhouse would walk free after he murdered two people. Somehow, fiction manged, even in a spoiled form, to get more of a reaction out of me than reali

Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images The COVID-19 pandemic has often been compared to the 1918 flu pandemic. Despite the fact that more than one hundred years have passed between the two pandemics, they share frightening similarities. For both of these pandemics, misinformation has run as rampant as the virus of each respective era and stupidity of citizens runs just as much. On August 9th, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota kicked off. This 10 day annual event has been going on since 1938 and if you thought a deadly viral disease was gonna stop a swarm of people from attending en mass, buddy, you have not met human beings. In 2020, the rally went on as planned with thousands gathering, maskless in close proximity. To the surprise of no one, this ended up being a super spreader event because viruses love crowds.  I'd like to think we've come a long way in over one hundred years, but the sad reality of it is, people are gonna be people and this was the exact same case in 1918.

Getty Images. Over 633,000. That is the number of people in the United States of America that have died to COVID-19.  The quick vaccine roll out has provided Americans with hope and security. But the pandemic that has gone on for more than a year now is far from over. The new Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus has become the dominate strain and is far more infectious than the previous ones.  "What's in the vaccine?" "I guess the vaccine isn't working if people are still getting sick." As for what's in it, maaaaaan, I really don't care. If you're feeling sick and your doctor prescribes you with some meds, do you play twenty questions? I'm betting that's a no. But if you're still vaccine hesitant or don't want to get the jab at all, the least you can do is wear a mask. Masks not only protect others, they protect you as well. You probably don't think twice about half the stuff you put in your body. Vaccines are not a cure. Yes,

Image from Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. The January 6th Committee hearings began this week on Tuesday. We heard testimonies from two Capitol Hill police officers, Officer Harry Dunn and Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, and two of D.C.'s police: Officers Daniel Hodge and Michael Fanone. These were but four of the many officers that put their lives on the line when white domestic terrorists stormed the United States Capitol building in a failed coup attempt incited by loser, former President orange face, Donald Chump Trump. Sgt. Gonell and Officers Dunn and Fanone have been making the rounds over the past several months, speaking on CNN multiple times.  In Officer Fanone's latest conversation with CNN's, the officer gave his remarks on the very vulgar, profane laced voicemail that was sent to him while he was testifying on Tuesday.  Because officer Fanone is a white person that is telling the truth about what happened on Jan 6, his fellow white people view him as a traitor. Sure he

Image via Getty Images. White folks love Martin Luther King Jr. Or rather, they love the white washed version of him. His iconic  I Have a Dream speech has a line that is a big favorite among white conservatives, a line that I'm sure you are all too familiar with, time and time again. I'm am of course referring to people being judged not by the color of their skin, but by the contents of their character. That line is often used by white conservatives to deny the systemic racism that has contaminated America from day one. It makes white people breathe a sigh of relief, keeps them from any type of self examination and lets them go back to their lovely white privileged world. That line is also often used out of context, which is exactly what House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) did in another GOP bash against Critical Race Theory. McCarthy took to Twitter to reiterate part of an interview he did. On the social media platform he wrote "Critical Race Theory goes agains

Image from Getty Images. Republicans have found a new target to make their supporters fear: Critical Race Theory or CRT for short.  Despite the nonsense you may have heard, it is  not being taught in schools grades K-12, but the mere thought  of it being taught to the youth of America has white folks up in arms. Gonna go out on a limb and say that the reason they don't feel so good is because a certain word is in CRT. Can you guess what word I'm talking abo--RACE. The word is race.  People fear what they don't understand. And you can bet the farm white folks and those that don't want CRT to be taught in schools don't understand a lick of it. To a lot of republicans and republican supporters, CRT is something new and as we all know, the GOP is totally against anything and everything new. In reality, CRT has been making the rounds for years now. What's also old is the republican's battle strategy. Fear mongering has long been a tool of the GOP. For years they