Now, after more than a year of trying to settle on a new nickname, the team announced its big reveal on February 2. But what’s wrong with Braves or Warriors?Īs you may know, the Washington football team abandoned its monikor of “Redskins”. They oppose the use of caricatures that mock their heritage, but claim that erasing Native American names from the public square comes from “a paternalistic assumption that we must protect Native Americans by erasing references to them and their heritage.” I get why some names are negative. But in Colorado a Native American group is suing to prevent the renaming of schools with Native American mascots. Loneliness has led to greater drug use, and higher suicide rates especially among the elderly.įinally, sports teams are renaming themselves to avoid offending Native Americans. NPR says older adults are especially vulnerable since many live in isolation. Yet a study by the insurance company Cigna found that about half of Americans say they’re lonely. We’re also in an age of instant communication with smartphones, texting, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and a myriad of ways to connect with people. Yet they also want to expand tax breaks that mostly favor the wealthy, like the state and local tax deduction (SALT) that according to the Fiscal Times would “provide a tax cut of $285 billion over five years with almost all the benefits going to the top ten percent of earners.” A Few More Things I Don’t Understand Meanwhile, Democrats want to give more money to the poor and raise taxes on the rich. They thumb their nose at the criminal justice system. Yet they want to do away with gun rules and take the law into their own hands. Republicans are supposed to care about law and order. Conservative anti-vaccers use the slogan: My Body My Choice. Here’s one that really makes me wonder: Pro-choice liberals use the slogan: My Body My Choice. So that’s a lot of immigrants for a country that’s supposed to be anti-immigrant. When we were kids, in 1970, foreigners represented less than 5% of the U. Today’s 47 million represent 17% of the U. That’s almost ten times as many foreigners as there were during the great immigration of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are 47 million foreign-born people living in America today. I don’t understand why people say the U.S.

Are we all in that much of a hurry?Īnd how it is that these same people are up in arms about global warming, yet as a group Americans are now buying more gas-guzzling SUVs than ever before?Īnother thing I don’t understand… why are all the most popular movies these days cartoons? Politics I Don’t Understand And really, donning a mask when you’re on a plane, a bus, or in the supermarket… it’s not that big a deal.īut then, I don’t understand why people line up to go to Starbucks to buy bitter, overpriced coffee.Īnd I don’t understand why people drive 75 mph, often 15 or 20 mph over the speed limit, risking their lives just to save a few minutes on a trip. Well, they don’t work perfectly, but they do help to prevent the spread of the virus. Well, I guess I’ve gotten to that stage, because there sure are a lot of things I don’t understandįor example, I don’t understand why people refuse to wear masks. We don’t know the trends, and we sure don’t know what’s in store for the future. We don’t know what’s going on in the world. The cliche says that people our age start to lose touch.

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