Date: November 30, 2021
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m
Description: Everyone is invited to attend.
Facilitated by Vice Mayor Jim Shulman.
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Friday, November 26, 2021
Memphis, TN Reported One of the Highest Murder Rates in the US
Some experts speculate that each of these factors likely played a role in the rising homicide rate. While it may be years before the precise causal factors are identified, the effects are being felt in communities across the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists homicide as a contributing factor in the historic 1.5-year decline in life expectancy in the U.S. last year -- trailing only COVID-19 and accidental deaths, like drug overdoses, in significance.
Memphis, Tennessee, is among the U.S. cities with the highest homicide rates. There were a total of 289 murders reported in the city in 2020, or 44.4 for every 100,000 people -- well above the national homicide rate of 6.5 murders per 100,000.
Even though homicide is the least common form of criminal violence -- accounting for less than 2% of all violent crimes -- places with high homicide rates also often have high overall violent crime rates, and Memphis is no exception. There were 2,352 violent crimes reported for every 100,000 people in Memphis in 2020, compared to 399 incidents per 100,000 nationwide.
All data used in this story is from the FBI's 2020 Uniform Crime Report. Only places with populations above 25,000 based on five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2019 American Community Survey were considered. Limited data was available in the 2020 UCR for areas in Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, though these places were not excluded from analysis.
(For the list and ranking of the most murderous cities in America, follow this link.)
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Biden's hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering results in a travel ban on eight African Nations amid ‘Omicron’ Variant.
by Rod Williams, November 26, 2021 - Today President Biden, amid the discovery of the new highly infectious “Omicron” variant of the coronavirus, imposed a travel ban on eight African countries. The ban applied to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Malawi. These are all majority Black countries.
You may recall that in February 2020, Biden criticized Trump for his xenophobic response to the coronavirus crisis. The mainstream press, popular cultural influencers, CNN and MSNBC pundits, and many Democratic politicians denounced Trump's ban on Chinese travel as hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. To show her solidarity with the Chinese people Nancy Pelosi, toured San Francisco's Chinatown and hugged some Chinamen.
Biden is right to impose this travel ban on these African countries. Trump was right to impose a travel ban on China. Biden, Pelosi, late-night TV talk show entertainers, and a whole lot of other people owe Trump an apology. I am not going to hold my breath and wait for it to happen.
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Thursday, November 25, 2021
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Tennessee has the 10th most cost-effective highway system in the nation.
by Rod Williams, Nov. 24, 2021- Reason Foundation's 26th Annual Highway Report measures the condition and cost-effectiveness of state-controlled highways in 13 categories, including urban and rural pavement condition, deficient bridges, traffic fatalities, spending per mile, and administrative costs per mile of highway. Tennessee ranked 10th best. For a more in-depth look at the data, follow the above link.
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Bellevue Breakfast Club speaker is Dr. Ming Wang, Sat. Dec. 4th
From Lonnie Spivak:
Greeting Breakfast Club Members,
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you will join me Saturday, December 4th, for our final breakfast club of the year as we prepare for redistricting and the upcoming elections. I will have a personal message and we will be joined by Dr. Ming Wang. Our meeting will being at 8:30 am at Plantation Pub, located at 8321 Sawyer Brown Rd.
I hope to have a count of everyone attending, so please reply to the email to let me know if you can make the meeting. lonie@lonniespivak.com
Thank you.
As a teenager, Ming fought valiantly to escape China’s Cultural Revolution – during which millions of innocent youth were deported to remote areas to face a life sentence of hard labor and poverty. He came to America with only $50 and earned two doctorate degrees, one in laser physics and one in medicine, and graduated with the highest honors from Harvard Medical School and MIT.
Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration has helped patients from over 40 states in the U.S. and 55 countries, with all sight restoration surgeries performed free-of-charge. Dr. Wang was named the Kiwanis Nashvillian of the Year for his lifelong dedication to help blind orphaned children from around the world.
The film “Sight” is based on Dr. Wang’s autobiography “From Darkness to Sight” and co-stars Greg Kinnear.
Why Christian conservatives are not connected with the minorities and how we can do better?
Ming Wang, MD, PhD
Harvard & MIT (MD, magna cum laude); PhD (laser physics)
Co-founder, Common Ground Network, Co-founder, Tennessee Immigrant and Minority Business Group
Director, Wang Vision Institute, drwang@wangvisioninstitute.com, www.drmingwang.com
Christian conservatives are not connecting with the minorities!
- 20% of U.S. population are Hispanic Americans (voting 8:2 progressive);
- 18% of U.S. population are African Americans (9:1);
- 6% of U.S. population are Asian Americans (7:3).
These three minorities are 44% of U.S. population today, and is projected to become the majority, in 10-15 years, for the first time in U.S. history!
- Medium age of whites = 58
- Asians = 29
- African Americans = 27
- Hispanic Americans = 11
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Sunday, November 21, 2021
University School of Nashville Is the Best School in The Nashville Area.
Students also benefit from a positive school culture, participating in extracurricular activities, having individualized attention from teachers and counselors, and learning in a diverse environment.
Though there are hundreds of excellent schools across the country, each major city and metropolitan area has one school that stands out as the best in its area.
Located next to Vanderbilt University, University School of Nashville is the Nashville, Tennessee, area's top school. The school earned an A+ overall grade from school data platform Niche as well as A+ grades for its academics, teachers, clubs and activities, and college prep.
University School of Nashville has just over 1,000 students from kindergarten through 12th grade. The school also has an average graduation rate of 100% and a student-to-teacher ratio of 9:1.
To determine the best schools by city, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 2022 K-12 School & District Rankings from Niche, a platform for education data. The Niche ranking is based on academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education as well as reviews submitted to Niche. City boundaries are based on Census Bureau definitions for places. We identified the best school in every city for the 50 largest U.S. cities based on five-year population data from the Census Bureau's 2019 American Community Survey.
(To see the complete list follow this link)
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Kyle Rittenhouse is still no hero
by Rod Williams, Nov. 21, 2021- I am pleased that Rittenhouse was found not guilty, but I agree with this article. He should have stayed home. Last summer when BLM and Antifa were terrorizing Nashville, I went armed. If I would have found myself in the midst of a mob attempting to do me bodily harm, I would have used deadly force to protect myself. However, I avoided areas where there were protests. I avoided the interloop of the interstates. I figured a route of non-interstate roads provided opportunities to avoid the conflict if the terrorist decided to block a roadway. I am not a coward, but I think it prudent to avoid conflict rather than seek it out. I am not ready to abandon civil society. I am not ready to take the law into my own hands. Rittenhouse's not guilty verdict should not be interpreted as a call for an armed citizenry to confront rioters. We still have the ballot box and when city or state officials do not do their job by maintaining order we can vote them out of office.
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