Archive for the ‘Race in America’ Category
November 25, 2013
Thanksgiving traditionally is a time to eat like there’s no tomorrow. And there are some big fat ideas about the day that ain’t necessarily so. Of course times have changed and so has Turkey Day, an occasion that such fowl surely would anticipate with dread, except that they don’t have powers of anticipation till […]
Posted in Pop Culture, Race in America |
Tags: Camel cigarettes, Immigration of Whites, Life Magazine, Nicene Creed, Pilgrims, Swift & Co., Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Wampanoag people
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October 17, 2011
Three recent movies. And it is not my custom generally to say run, don’t walk, to see modern flicks. If you are as selective as I am regarding cinema and of what among it is a waste of time, you too are amazed at the way people enter theaters with such expectation and, sadly, […]
Posted in Race in America, Social Issues |
Tags: " "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", " "The Debt, "The Help, Animal abuse, Anti-racism programs, antisemitism, Golden Gate Bridge, Holocaust, Jews, Josef Mengele, Mid-20th century U.S., Nazi, Nazism, Racism
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July 27, 2011
There was a time, we thought, that the good guys got the bad guys. Justice, it seemed, was swift and fair. Punishment, we imagined, fit the crime. The cell door slammed and that was that. Where did it end? With corrupt or lenient judges? With the dumbing-down of jury panels? No, it had […]
Posted in Race in America, Social Issues |
Tags: Angelo Mozilo, Casey Anthony, Marcia Clark, Michael Jackson, O. J. Simpson, Ollie North, Rebekah Brooks, Roger Clemens, Rupert Murdoch, Whitey Bulger
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April 17, 2011
It was a hundred and fifty years ago and we still aren’t over it. Less than a century after Independence to create a nation, we were at each other’s necks in a Civil War of “father against son and brother against brother.” Keep in mind that included mothers and daughters too. The accompanying graphic […]
Posted in Politics, Race in America, Social Issues |
Tags: American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Emancipation, Jim Crow, Lost Cause of the Confederacy, President Obama, Racism, Rhett Butler, Slavery, War
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February 15, 2011
Think of Tina Turner’s hit song: “What’s love, what’s love, got-to-do, got-to-do with it…” Cometh Valentine’s Day, and storefronts are sick with every shade of red. Gosh, we’re a loving people. You can tell from our music, literature, rhetoric and scriptures. We sing and rhapodize about it, and look for it in all the wrong […]
Posted in Gays and Society, Race in America, Religion, Social Issues |
Tags: Arts, Isaiah, Jews, Love, Marriage, Poetry, Romance, Tina Turner, Transgender, Troubadours, Valentines Day
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January 18, 2011
These words were meant to be posted earlier but, well, shots rang out again, this time in Arizona. How ironic that we were only days away from commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr., himself a victim of gun violence. He had been to the mountain-top, a “peak experience” perhaps, but the trip down is often disappointing, […]
Posted in Race in America, Social Issues |
Tags: Atlanta, Baltimore, Martin Luther King, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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September 9, 2010
Anything Obama says or does will be criticized by the radical right, who are masquerading as “conservatives,” though not worthy of the name. It warmed my heart to see him give voice to religious freedom in regard to the mosque center–and he did not “back off” or “qualify” that stance the following day. Whoever can […]
Posted in Guns Control, Politics, Race in America, Religion, Social Issues |
Tags: FDR, Guns, JFK, Lincoln, Manhattan mosque center, Obama, Reagan, right wing, the Bushes
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July 12, 2010
Were it not for the benighted legislators of that state we wouldn’t be having a long-overdue national discussion regarding immigration. If such people did not exist, we would have to create them. Before, there was no real “dialogue,” just one-sided, loud declamations by people with no knowledge of immigration history and other, always-present xenophobes who […]
Posted in Politics, Race in America, Social Issues, Uncategorized |
Tags: Arizona law, Bracero program, Immigration, Russell Pearce
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January 23, 2010
Denial, as they say in Twelve Step programs, ain’t just a river in Egypt. And there is an adage in religious circles that Dutch Baptists choke on their pipes when they see Spanish Baptists drinking red wine. Everyone else has a problem, except “us.” And certainly we are not racists. To say, as was common […]
Posted in Race in America |
Tags: antiracism, James Earl Ray, Jr., King, Racism, Rush Limbaugh
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