As the President’s illness is comprehensively covered and updated in frenzied, up-to-the-minute posts, I continue to wonder about the fate of all of those brown people–adults and children–who walked here. They came up through Central America and Mexico, hundreds of miles, with just the clothes on their backs and hope for the children whose hands […]
MoreBlacks very lucrative, which is why hundreds of White men were hired by these states as police officers. Their primary responsibility was to search out and arrest Blacks who were in violation of Black Codes [Virginia also had Black Codes that made certain conduct criminal only for Black people.].
MoreTheir knee has been on our necks for over 400 years and we are still here and breathing.
MoreI was born smack in the middle of America’s “Baby Boom.” I lived my formative years under Jim Crow in rural Missouri. My life spans the arc of America’s modern social and racial history from Brown v. Board of Education to the March on Washington from the War on Poverty to the war on young […]
MoreAs the activist protests following the Shockley decision in St. Louis continue, it is clear that the The Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) and its leadership are growing more sophisticated.
MoreHow do two violent offenders, escape from prison, flee in a stolen vehicle, engage in a rolling gunfight with police on a busy highway, nearly kill innocent people with flying bullets, hold an elderly couple captive, crash a car, get captured by police and live to tell about it? Answer: They are white men. Why […]
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