Category: Race
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The Squire takes a knee for racial e-qual-i-tee!
The Squire is taking a knee — not, like Colin Kaepernick, to protest police brutality toward black people — but to protest the NFL’s brutality toward football players. (Aaron Hernandez, any one?) And the Left’s brutality toward the black community. Police and prisons are how whitey has kept the black man in his place ever…
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Two monuments defaced in Madison: one gets big media play, the vandalism to the police memorial, not so much
False flag operation? A reporter from Wisconsin Public Radio reached out Wednesday (9-20-17) to the Blaska Policy Werkes for a statement on the vandalism done to the Voluntarios Internacionales monument in James Madison Park. The reporter noted that just one month earlier, the Werkes had called for the removal of this monument to Communism, for…
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Shots fired; a report from the front lines of street crime and Madison politics
Wednesday, September 6. Your Humble Squire came, he listened, he spoke, he went home and deadbolt-locked the doors. It was the first of two budget listening sessions scheduled by Madison alders Matt Phair and Mo Cheeks, who operate as a duo. Kind of like Paul and Paula. The second budget session is scheduled from 10…
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An impertinent question: peer support for the Culver’s burglary victims?
Will the Focused Interruption Team be contacting the Chris Kneubuehl family in the wake of his death during an armed robbery at the Culver’s restaurant? Madison’s elected alders recently awarded $75,000 to address “racial disparities, violence, and division between communities.” The money was ear-marked for funeral arrangements, temporary housing, bus passes, food cards, smartphones, and…
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The crime at Culver’s — this one is different
Few recent crime stories have been as compelling or infuriating as the early Tuesday morning burglary/homicide at the Culver’s restaurant off the Beltline, an eatery that thousands of Madisonians frequent, including this bloggeur. That, alone, brings it home to much of Madison. This one is different, perhaps because most crimes are committed in an instant,…