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The brouhaha over the Netflix series ‘Dear White People’ died down months ago. Why, then, are we seeing a resurgence of rancor towards it?  More to the point, why are so many people of non-white ethnic backgrounds suddenly raging over it? It may have something to do with the recent reemergence of a HuffPo Black Voices clip. Published in May 2017, Justin Simien, the director, joins lead actress Logan Browning for four and a half minutes of spin:  why double standards around racism simply don’t exist; w hy a show titled “Dear Black People” would be offensive; why the n-word is off-limits to white but not black people; why minority-focused spaces like HuffPost Black Voices exist but HuffPost White Voices does not; and why there’s simply no such thing as reverse racism. (HuffPo) The clip was removed from YouTube but is still contained in the HuffPo article:   www.huffpost.com/entry/dear-white-people-director-and-star-break-down-why-black-people-cant-be-racist In light o

It's no secret that I loathe the Orange One.  I don't dislike Trump's supporters. I like America. I respect the Office of the President. I'm Republican. My problem rests squarely with The Donald.   I've sneered at his infantile antics since the 80s.  I detested everything he stood for - greed, the sexual objectification of women, and excess during a time when the average American was suffering due to a recession.  I growled at the way he treated the Trump Frump (hat-tip to Berke Breathed and Bloom County , there). His behavior back then disgusted me.   His current behavior isn't anything new but is magnified ten-fold thanks to his ability to promote himself easily on Twitter.  Everything he does is asinine. Thus we come to another asinine idea put forth by Trump and promoted by his administration: Harvest Boxes . Harvest boxes are aimed at saving $120 billion in SNAP over the next 10 years by giving low-income families packages of shelf-stabl