On October 28, John M. Grant was put to death after being on our state’s death row for more than 20 years.

He was an inmate in the Hominy prison when he pulled a 58-year-old food service supervisor into a mop closet and stabbed her 16 times, including 5 times to her vital organs.

As he lay strapped on the gurney in the execution chamber, his last words were a string of shouted profanities.

For many, the desire to have their own way is even stronger than the drive for self-preservation, which explains the self-destructive pattern of events in the news every day.

Having family members in years gone by with law enforcement – including a brother who was chief of police in a Minnesota town and a son as a public defender – I find even the thought of defunding the police departments as insanity.

Relying on the case of George Floyd and the City of Minneapolis voluntarily paying his heirs $27 million also was insanity. I wonder who benefitted? His girlfriend, his wife or illegitimate daughter (who say it on a TV station and not because of wondering why her Daddy was late for dinner?)

Restitution, reparations and extortion are closely related when it comes to money. A speaker for Black Lives Matter added that looting was just a part of reparations.

Appraisals for eminent domain have been part of my work-a-day life and in 1970-71, I was on former Mayor Bob LaFortune’s urban renewal committee for North Tulsa. Also in 1971, I was on the committee for former Governor David Hall in the purchase of land for the Cimarron Turnpike from Tulsa to Stillwater.

In Minneapolis, which had one of the largest skid rows n the nation in the 1950s (and totally cleaned up in the 1960s), my involvement was as a personal investor officed in an old Chinese laundry at 2121 Washington Avenue. Now it’s a beautiful Shell Station with the same 2121 number.

During that time, I became acquainted with Louie Thomas, a black man who I would lend few dollars to from time to time in total friendship. One day I got a visit from the FBI wanting for me to be undercover for Louie. The next day I moved to Downtown Minneapolis because I am no cop. A few weeks later, I heard that Louie had been picked up for murder and accused of shooting a U.S. marshal in the stomach. My guess is that this U.S. marshal was a very honorable family man but he never got the publicity that George Floyd did.

Today, the dumbing down of America is rampant with no relief in sight. There’s name calling and labeling. The late Rush Limbaugh said if someone is called a racist, a bigot or a homophobe, “Most likely they are a white guy.”

Today, IQ tests are considered racist. In Oregon schools, math is considered racist.

Andrew Wommack with Charis Bible College has a monthly budget of over $5 million with a potential TV audience of over three billion people. He said that we will be called racists for just telling the truth.

The Bible warns: “Beware when all men speak well of you.”