The Big East Conference in a "woke" moment has surrendered to sports peer pressure and decided to sew patches with the letters "BLM" on the men's and women's basketball teams for this season. The conference released a letter on its website detailing the rationale: The Big East Conference decided on August 20th to have patches "celebrating" the Black Lives Movement. "We remain deeply pained by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor,  Ahmaud  Arbery and the many before them whose lives were lost to callous and senseless acts of racial violence and bigotry." Further: For all of us in the extended BIG EAST family, "Black Lives Matter" is not a political organization or ideology, but a fact.  For us, BLM means that the safety, dignity and well‐being of all Black people are non‐negotiable rights and that intolerance and repression because of skin color cannot be tolerated in our...(Read Full Post)