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… Read more “Do not forget how we got here”
Category: Black Lives Matter
The big deal about Juneteenth: the history of black people, police and the justice system
Blacks 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.].
White fear and black lives
Their knee has been on our necks for over 400 years and we are still here and breathing.
Will I live to see the moral arch arc bend toward justice?
I 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… Read more “Will I live to see the moral arch arc bend toward justice?”
Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Vote.
As 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.
How and why is there is no justice for “Just Us?”
How 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… Read more “How and why is there is no justice for “Just Us?””
