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Diversity is Not Our Strength

Diversity can be a good thing, but not when it is based on superficial DEI checklists Think about a professional football team. I’m a Cleveland Browns fan so let’s say the Browns. What would happen to that team if it were full of nothing but quarterbacks – just a bunch of Baker Mayfields running around….

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Welcome to Informed Dissent

Writer, cultural/political commentator, and host of the “Informed Dissent” Podcast, Leonydus Johnson, brings common sense, liberty-minded perspectives to a variety of hot-button topics that dare to challenge the accepted narratives. ShareTweetPin

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Stop Leaping to Conclusions

George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Jacob Blake; their cases all have one thing in common. Few people wanted to wait for the facts. Riotors set fire to a car lot in Kenosha, Wisconsin while protesting the shooting of Jacob Blake. Another night, another set of violent riots around the country. Sorry — “mostly peaceful protests”….

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Children Killed By Street Violence (Updated 9.19.21)

This is a page dedicated to memorializing the young children lost to street violence, helping to provide financial support for grieving families, and to raise awareness of this horrific problem that exists in our communities that the media and BLM refuses to talk about. Last year, 2020, AT LEAST 78 children were murdered in street…

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Informed Dissent with Leonydus

EPISODE 2: Enemy of the People August 19th, 2020  |  Leonydus Johnson The mainstream corporate press has become more and more unhinged as they continually throw journalistic integrity to the wind, abandon any search for truth, and concern themselves only with advancing a particular narrative and telling us what to think. But how much damage…

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It’s Time to Cancel Hood Culture

By now, most of us are familiar with the term, “Cancel Culture” as it has been a prominent topic in recent years. It generally starts as a social media hashtag campaign against something or someone determined to be morally irredeemable, whether due to some recent behavior or perceived offense or a revelation of some history,…

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Racism and Where We Go From Here

Race is back as the focus in the national conversation and the “America is racist” narrative has been revived with a fury. And with it, America seems to have completely lost its collective mind. I have spent a lot of time thinking about where we need to go from here. I admit, it has been…

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When Speech Is Violence

The case for limited government has been substantially strengthened in this past week. The onslaught against the 1st amendment, in particular, received brand new fervor with the Democrats’ and Mainstream Media’s unified and coordinated defense of Ilhan Omar. If you are unfamiliar with what happened, a video has been circulating online showing Omar, a U.S….

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The Preciousness of Life

Last Friday, the Georgia State Legislature passed the HB 481 bill, entitled the “Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act” and it now heads to Governor Brian Kemp’s desk to be signed into law. The bill establishes rights and protections for unborn children once a heartbeat is detected in the womb. Predictably, this has generated…

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It’s Time To Break the Chains of Victimhood

Not many things get my blood pressure up like racial issues. If you have ever read my posts on social media, you know where I stand in regards to victimhood based on skin color (screams internally). This article looks to address some of the myths commonly associated with this idea of racial oppression and what…

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