The Slavery of Eternal Guilt Q: Should Americans feel responsible for what occurred in the past, such as the seizure of native land? A: Some Americans can apparently be made to feel guilty about anything. If your...
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CITIZENSHIP AND THE LOST REPORT CARD
Citizenship and the Lost Report Card It occurred to me this morning that when I was a kid in elementary school that we used to be graded on a lot more than what we knew, but how we behaved....
LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR SALAD
Lowest Common Denominator Salad I hate salad. I love my salad. Over the past year or so, I have completely changed my food intake. I now prepare over 50% of my own meals and I haven’t been to Carl’s...
WHAT I LEARNED FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON
I read the recent biography of George Washington by Joseph Ellis and I came away from it rather astounded and impressed with Washington’s courage, ability and demeanor. It’s as if I had no idea whatsoever prior to then why...
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
I just found myself saying the following with regards to gun control and abortion. “The only way we are going to be more civil with each other is when we stop using the coercion of the law and the...
MY BLACK LIFE DOESN’T MATTER
My life matters. That should be obvious. How could it not? But I’m not representing myself as having a #BlackLife that matters. I’m not that kind of commodity. I own my own blackness and it’s not up for symbolic...
THE LIMITS OF MORAL PROXIES
Is it ever proper for the law to support capital punishment? The short answer is yes, but I’ve got a nuance I’ve been thinking about. It is found in the recourse for suicide. The death penalty is an...
APPLAUDING NET NEUTRALITY
Over the past few weeks I’ve made contact with several outstanding individuals, but let me tell you about the last guy, Codename Gambler. Gambler because he looks like Kenny Rodgers at the top of his game. Among other things,...
DOES BRIAN WILLIAMS HAVE AUTISM
Not really. But now I’ve got your attention. I know I’m probably not the person to ask, because I haven’t watched nightly network news since McNeil ,Lehrer, Gergen, Shields and Hunter-Gault. Somewhere around the time when The McLaughlin Group...
YOUR BLACK REPUBLICAN PROBLEM
Not long ago, Ishmael Reed wrote in the NYT: The Republican Party was influenced by the abolitionist Liberty Party, whose leading lights included William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, who later said: “I recognize the Republican...
AGAINST LIBERAL STRUCTURALISM
The problem isn’t at all structural, else Christianity would be wrong and it’s certainly older than capitalism. But as in everything it’s the person trying to make the difference that does, or doesn’t. And so one by one, individuals...
