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Gun Control: The Paralyzing Price of American Freedom
America’s biggest problem is that it fatally overvalues its freedom.
— Xenocrates

Guns. Guns! Everywhere. The news feed coming out of the freest country in the world is starting to read like a play by play for the war in Afghanistan. Why is there so much gun violence in America? At this point, there is no point arguing against the right for law abiding citizens to own guns. Doing so would be pointless. Rather, this post seeks to highlight that America’s biggest problem is not its guns. Guns are only a symptom of the actual problem.
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10 Stupid Things You Do Everyday
Common sense is an oxymoron
— Xenocrates

How smart do you think you really are? If I asked you if you had common sense, how would you answer? Some of you might think that you’re pretty intelligent. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are even some of you who think that you have above average intelligence. If you ever thought this to yourself, then I’m going to prove to you that this is probably not accurate.
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The Anatomy of Racism (Part 4 of 4)
While every racist is a fool, not every fool is racist.
— Xenocrates
We must learn to differentiate between actual acts of racism and otherwise acts of ignorance. They are not the same. Otherwise, cries for justice like this can be successfully undermined by racists as race baiting.
If you back track some 60 years into American history, it would be fair to say that most white folks were at the very least, racially prejudiced, if not outright racist. As the decades rolled by, their ignorance waned as all their collective consciousnesses were raised. As a result, the average white adult today does not think the same way. But because the hurt has penetrated several generations of American minorities, it has created a hypersensitive society that has forgotten what racism really is, spawning an endless generation of boys crying wolf.
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