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Earlier today I viewed an excerpt from a short video clip of Ray Lewis, former Baltimore Ravens NFL star speaking to the Black Lives Matter movement about gun violence deaths of Black men resulting from the use of a gun by other Black men. Lewis made the point that such deaths are more frequent and quantitatively greater than those Black men killed by white police officers. What he said is true. I support the Black Lives Matter movement in it’s awakening the national conscience to numerous instances of lethal force used by police in killing black men. Most of such...

“After 50 years of teaching at Harvard, I have never met a less courageous group of people than tenured faculty.”

'Lincoln freed the slaves 130 years ago. How long does it take you to get your act together?' A Facebook page ostensibly created for an audience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign called “Illini White Students Union” has drawn fire after it characterized the national Black Lives Matter movement as “terrorism.” Created Wednesday after a protest sympathetic to Black Lives Matter, the page declared itself “for white students of University of Illinois to be able to form a community and discuss our own issues as well as be able to organize against the terrorism we have been facing from...

And what is “micro-aggression?” What can that possibly mean? A raised eyebrow? A snicker? An eye-roll? An opposing point of view? Seems like it could be almost anything, which is convenient if what you want to do is pitch a public fit. The situation is ridiculous and made even more so by the fact that anyone anywhere is taking these kids seriously. Though maybe we should -- there’s some obvious mental derangement problems on our campuses.