Tag: Bill Gates

Bill Gates, Philanthropy and a Look at Race and Privilege

Matt Talford

WITH THE WHOLE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC and the growing concern surrounding intimations of mandatory vaccinations as put forth by a retired software billionaire-turned-philanthropist—Bill Gates (head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), and leaders from the US-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as the proposed location for human vaccine trials, I think it’s high time we had a real conversation regarding privilege and race.  Before I begin though, I think it’s worth sharing that last week, I ran an informal poll on…

Daniel Chapter Two: A Brief Analysis

Matt Talford

I was a teenager serving in the U.S. Army… the first time I read the Book of Daniel, located in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible (the seventh book after Proverbs, situated between the books of Ezekiel and Hosea).  While I have forgotten most of the chapters in the book, the one that stuck is the second chapter.  In it, Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar (who had the Israelites in forced servitude) has a terrible dream and sends for his spiritual advisors and demands they tell him both his dream and…