Dr Flavius Akerele III's The E Team Education blog

  Disclaimer: this is not about politics or religion, this is simple right and wrong, the wrong being "creative interpretations" of things when it suits yourself. I am not a constitutional scholar nor do I claim to be an expert on the constitution. Nevertheless, I am an educator and I have read the constitution (have you?). Just because I do not agree with your points of views,  it does not make me less of an American, it also does not mean I still do not like you as a person. We are not always going to agree with our friends and relatives all the time and educated debate can be good for progress. However, please understand that the true beauty and strength of the United States of America, is that I do have the right to disagree with you within the boundaries of the law because just like you I too have the same  constitutional rights. The constitution does not use a George Orwell Animal Farm approach such: "everyone is equal but some are more equal then other...

 As I listen to the latest asinine, irrelevant, horse manure, “political scandal”, I feel I must educate on some very important issues about campaigns nowadays. They are full of Fallacies! Rhetorical Fallacies ž   Rhetorical fallacies, or fallacies of argument, don’t allow for the open, two-way exchange of ideas upon which meaningful conversations depend. Instead, they distract the reader with various appeals instead of using sound reasoning. They can be divided into three categories: ›       1. Emotional fallacies unfairly appeal to the audience’s emotions. ›       2. Ethical fallacies unreasonably advance the writer’s own authority or character. ›       3. Logical fallacies depend upon faulty logic. ž   Rhetorical fallacies often overlap. Emotional Fallacies ž   Sentimental Appeals use emotion to distract the audience from the facts. ›  ...

The Presidential election season has already started, and it looks to be a season based upon sound bites, ad hominin fallacies, and a lot of assumptions; not to mention a very expensive election. The candidates will be after your vote, or in some cases depending on the color of your skin, age, state, or how you label yourself; they will simply be expecting you to vote for them. We have very little true choice with our current presidential election process, usually it is the lesser of two evils, and that is scary. The Republican Party of today is more like the Democratic Party of yesterday (study your history, the party of Lincoln is gone); and the Democratic Party does not truly know where it stands except they feel entitled to and are expecting the vote of people of color. These are not assumptions, there are enough facts if you do the research yourself, and I am about to make a point. Candidates on both sides do not clearly discuss and define issues because t...