We Need Less Virtue Signaling

From Clarice Feldman;

There is no collective guilt or collective innocence.  All Americans of every race are privileged by a system designed to procure and secure equal rights for all. It is a system based on a refutation of collective guilt or innocence. We are individuals united only when we acknowledge that each of us is responsible for our own conduct. Period. Whites and blacks. We all matter and are all entitled to the great privilege of liberty.

Read the whole thing.

Alexander Hamilton’s Instructions

This is from Alexander Hamilton’s instructions to the captains of the Revenue Cutter Service which is the predecessor of the US Coast Guard. I think this is timeless advice.

”They will always keep in mind that their countrymen are freemen, and, as such, are impatient of everything that bears the least mark of a domineering spirit. They will, therefore, refrain, with the most guarded circumspection, from whatever has the semblance of haughtiness, rudeness, or insult.”