Musings of an Intellect

House Democrats want taxpayers to fund reparations for the great-great-great-great grandchildren of black slaves. Former Democratic presidential candidate, Cory Booker, appeared as a witness during the first panel of a Juneteenth hearing on the proposal. "This is a very important hearing," he declared. "It is historic. It is urgent." At least seven other 2020 candidates have joined Booker in endorsing reparations for slavery, including Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Beto O'Rourke. No country in history has ever paid reparations to the descendants of African slaves for their ancestors' servitude. Less than 4% of Africans sold in the Atlantic slave trade ended up in the present day United States. The plurality of captured Africans, a full 40%, wound up in Brazil. Yet neither Brazil nor any other country has ever attempted such a historic restitution. Democrats pressing for reparations have yet to answer

  Tired of young adults running around in the streets rioting, looting, murdering, and burning? You are not alone. A K-12 curriculum based on the United Nation's Agenda 21, Common Core, and Social Justice has destroyed our educational system. Young minds now believe in the opposite of sanity, which has led to having adults who have no idea which way is up. Chaos has become the norm. Some say that corruption was by design. Some do not know anything about such insinuations. Nonetheless, Americans can see the results. It is time for us to have a conversation about what Americans value in public education. Do Americans value social justice, revisionist history, comprehensive sexual education, and activism? Not really. Most of these topics are age inappropriate to children's ability to absorb, weigh, and analyze them. Would you give your kindergartner a bottle of booze, a cartoon of cigarettes, and the keys to your car? How about your eight year old? Or, a ten year o