Awesome to see the entire USA team standing with their hand on their heart and singing the National Anthem before their first match of the World Cup. Let’s go @USMNT 💯🇺🇸💯🇺🇸
BEST video footage of the WEEK - you'll LOVE this surveillance video from Los Angeles.
A homeless guy sucker punched an elderly man who was having lunch in a Hollywood cafe. Then he stole his wallet and phone and tried taking off... until a hero stepped in.
Someone introduce us to this dude so we can buy him a beer and thank him.
Black pilot, West Point graduate, and combat veteran Wesley Hunt delivered a masterclass response:
“Hey Jasmine… Black pilot here.
I graduated from West Point. I went through Army flight school. I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache. I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color. Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Suggesting that Black pilots, engineers, doctors, or leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard. I wanted the same standard.”
He ended with a powerful line:
“Merit isn’t racist. Excellence isn’t discriminatory. And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.”
This is the kind of clarity and backbone America needs right now.
Today we honor a Screaming Eagle Legend Tom Rice. On 6 June 1944 he was the first man to exit his aircraft. He jumped over Normandy again in 2019 at 97 years old.
Tom passed away in 2022.