racism
August 7, 2009
- Those that have been following this site know of my disgust at the growing level of bigotry, anger, hatred and racism within our nation. The below article was taken directly from the “Southern Poverty Law Center” http://www.splcenter.org/. I urge those of you that are unfamiliar with their stellar work to take a look at their site.Within this site is contained a vast wealth of ...
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August 5, 2009
- At first I thought I could not blog on this week's topic as I do not see myself as a person with one obsession. I reflected for a moment on the many times my thoughts race ahead of me and get away from me (by choice mostly but not always), and where they go; what makes those around me roll their eyes because I've taken the topic they presented off on a detour to a place they recognize I've ...
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July 30, 2009
- I am not going to mention healthcare today. Well, I won't mention it again, today. Support for Obama's plan is slipping quickly, so great job to all of you who have been contacting your representatives. If it fails, maybe a real discussion of true reform can begin, rather than an expansion of government and a political wishlist (kind of like the stimulus bill was).Sorry. No MORE healthcare today. ...
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July 26, 2009
- Those of you that have been following this blog know my grief over the lingering racism that still exists in our nation. Those that think that racism has ended simply have never had to deal with it. The below article I’d gotten from the “Southern Poverty Law Center”… from their “HateWatch” division. The “HateWatch” is listed in my blogroll. SPLC site is ...
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July 25, 2009
- What is the extent of our capacity for imaginative empathy? When is it easy to put oneself in the place of other, and when is the stretch too far to manage? I don't have much trouble imagining how Henry Louis Gates felt earlier this week when he was arrested at the door of his own home. I was brought up to fear and avoid the police. On the scale of historic time, my childhood followed ...
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June 26, 2009
- There may never be a Graceland for Michael Jackson. He was the wrong kind of Bad. He could not be the rake you would love to hate. He did not have the charisma that made women go weak in their knees. If he ever took out his shirt to throw at the audience, they would see his skeleton covered with skin. He died long ago. And was born many times. It was the rebirth of a wilful retard. Oscar Wilde ...
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June 23, 2009
- I went to the bookstore today and bought a book called The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. I know I will love this book. I know from reading the first page. I read it and then closed the book as if to delay the pleasure. It waits for me by the bed tonight. It is written by Rebecca Miller, her husband is the actor Daniel Day Lewis. They split their lives by living in New York and Ireland. The last ...
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June 19, 2009
- Guess what these two photographs have in common? Did you figure it out? Go on, I bet you did. Well, in case you haven't let me tell you that these two photographs fall under the category of Migrants. Yes! Imagine that. The top image conveys Romanian children that have been put onto a bus in Belfast in order to flee racist attacks in the last few days. The picture is heart breaking. The young ...
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June 12, 2009
- Anti-Semitism has been a fact of my life for its entirety, from the first time, at age 5 or 6 I was told I was going to hell because I did not believe in Jesus, to the countless times I was called a “stupid Jew,” a kike, a baby killer, and a host of other names; from the time when, after the tent revivals rolled into town and everyone got “saved” (for the first or fifth time) the saved ...
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June 2, 2009
- WINNER OF THE BELLWETHER PRIZE FOR FICTIONMudbound by Hillary Jordan (Book Review) This debut novel Mudbound has rightly won many literary awards and praises from literary critics. It is published by Windmill and its ISBN is 0099524686. The book begins with a grave scene and each character tells in their own voice the story of how they arrived at the pitiless burial ...
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