When we were kids, one of the most demeaning experiences you could go through was “being played.” “Being played” means being fooled, being “chumped,” or someone taking advantage of you. It often involves someone that you trust. It was even worse than people snapping and joking about your mother or family. But those were situations …
Lions, and tigers, and bears, Oh my! It’s that time of year again, and in the spirit of Halloween, the Republican Party has trotted out its tired but successful bag of frightening tricks just in time for Election Day. The menu items very rarely change. The themes are always the same. Let’s scare the **** …
One of my favorite quotations is from Harper Lee, who wrote: “To Kill A Mockingbird.” She said, “you can choose your friends, but you sho’ can’t choose your family, and they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge them or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.” Political parties …
Fighting racism and inequality was all the rage in May 2020 when approximately 15 to 20 million Americans took to the streets in at least 200 cities in the United States. Books and videos about anti-racism flew off the shelves, and there was what some observers saw as a seminal moment, a national recognition of …
Denial is a potent ass drug, and approximately 77 million Americans are strung out and hitting the pipe hard. Denial is as much a cause for the lunacy and chaos that exists today as an economic downturn or malaise, more than any fear of socialism and more than a delusional notion of freedom. Denial is …
The current practice of categorizing political groups or ideologies people belong to needs a complete overhaul. We have the Right-Wing versus the Left-Wing, we have Conservatives versus Liberals, and we even have Liberals versus Progressives. Then we debate between those who support capitalism and those who support socialism. Of course, this debate centers around the …
When I think about our current predicament in the United States, the lyrics of the late, great Amy Winehouse come to mind, “What kind of fuckery is this?” A catastrophe looming on the horizon will be more devastating than any airborne virus. COVID-19 has been the most catastrophic medical and economic crisis our country has …
During the past 18 months, the Covid 19 virus wasn’t the only outbreak that occurred. An outpouring of cries for social justice has rung out globally. Much of America has been forced to deal with an issue that Black people have been dealing with since the “White Lion” arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, with 20 …
During the period 1956-1971, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted the Counter- Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). COINTELPRO was a government-funded fascistic operation designed to silence political movements and shut down political and social change. COINTELPRO was a series of government projects developed to destroy many of the movements and organizations responsible for much of the …
On September 14, 1814, a poem was written by Francis Scott key declared that the United States was “the land of the free, home of the brave,” and in 1916, our nation memorialized those words when the poem was adopted as our national anthem. There is no doubt that there have been significant acts and …
