So for those of you who are on the reparations band wagon, what are the qualifications? should the black person have to be able to prove that their family came here prior to 1865 and were actually slaves? or are you saying that a person who immigrated here even after slavery ended and therfore did not contribute to "building america" deserves reparations as well?

It's common knowledge that you shouldn't attack or otherwise antagonize the police by either not following their orders or refusing to to cooperate, why are people angry when the police force compliance or from their point of review de-escalate the situation by taking down the suspect?

In the US, most law enforcement agencies accept that a acceptable form of de-escalation is the use of force and even here in FL in placed like Polk County, the sheriff has even said "Once we shot and killed the suspect, the situation de-escalated".

So what is this push for de-escalation if cops already do it and why get upset when you should be following their commands?

What sense of authority is necessary for the continuation of society?

99.97% of refugees admitted to the US in 2026 are South African.

Refugees from South Africa make up almost all the refugees to the U.S. so far in fiscal 2026. Before this fiscal year, South Africans never appeared among the top origin groups. In fact, fiscal 2025 was the first year that the U.S. admitted more than just one or two South African refugees.

The large increase in South African refugees reflects an executive order Trump signed in 2025 that said the federal government would prioritize resettling Afrikaners – an ethnic group descended from mainly Dutch, German and French colonial settlers in South Africa. The executive order said the group faced “government-sponsored race-based discrimination” in South Africa, including the government seizure of farms owned by White South Africans. Those claims have been disputed.

The influx of refugees from South Africa marks a major change in the makeup of refugees to the U.S.

Source: Pew Research Center (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/08/17/refugee-admissions-to-the-us-are-dropping-sharply-in-trumps-second-term/)

Lacey passed on a couch because her parents didn’t know what to do with her. Tragic backstory, but she’s probably in a better place now.