Just Confusing
Once upon a time, I fancied that I might write romance novels, not the bodice ripper types but novels that framed how love begins, ignites and blossoms into a life long fantasy. But my hopes of...
View ArticleExterior Judgement
We all suffer this malady - judgement(s) base on the color of our skins, the kind of car we drive, whether or not our pearly whites are indeed white and straight, what kind of car we drive, whether or...
View ArticleChildren First?
A young Texas father began serving a six month jail term for paying his child support payments. He actually overpaid the amount due to correct a clerical error. And yet this man, this father will spend...
View ArticleGuilty
Gosh Ollie, I have been soooooo confused about the recent rise in racism of late, especially since the 2008 presidential election, but not to worry, Sandy Rios from American Family Radio and also a Fox...
View ArticleMorality versus Coersion - 1
Where does current morality and so-called fundamental religious beliefs outweigh individual rights? Apparently, at least in the State of Texas, when a declared dead pregnant woman, a wife and mother...
View ArticleReverse Racism
Exactly what do we envision when we think about large groups of unemployed white folks? Where do they reside? How does the MMM (main stream media) define these people, white people, that populate the...
View ArticleGender Difference
Bill Maher's broadcast this past Friday night touched a nerve when the 'conversation' naturally turned towards what Donald Sterling's assistant/closet girlfriend owed him for the pricey items he gave...
View ArticlePowerless
I have struggled for months to remember a poem that reflects man's inability to learn from the past. My mind has bounced back and forth over words penned by a man that describes a descent from...
View ArticleMid-Term Election
It's hard to relate to what happened, or rather, what didn't happen at the polls last Tuesday. In a way, the results were in a way Kafkaesque, that is if being a cockroach is appealing. My husband went...
View ArticleRape? Maybe Not So Much
It's taken me several days to push down any desire that I may have had not to comment about the Bill Cosby debacle. Oh, I've read a few of the stories, commented on one and was labeled a "victim...
View ArticleThe Real Difference Between Black and White Folk!
To be clear, I was born and identified as a Negro. Although both my parents were born and reared in the US, they nor my grandparents not even my great-grandparents have ever been exempted from being...
View ArticleSuperpredators
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, the 1990's to be exact, a criminologist predicted that teens that committed crimes during those long ago years would morph into superpredators "godless" morally...
View ArticleMSM and Equality
It's kind of interesting to compare the latest "boogie man" or at the very least, the latest scary lack man story to hold the sway of their audiences.The last few weeks, although it seems like months...
View ArticleA Major Concern
Read a short blurb today about the joining of journalistic forces between the Washington Post and the Texas Tribune. I guess in today's world print journalism must pursue all kinds of alliances to stay...
View ArticleWhite Saviors
It's so difficult to begin and then continue to engage in a real dialogue about race and racism in America today. The problem of being 'fair' and/or discussing the issue is difficult for many black and...
View ArticleAmerican Understanding of Terrorism
An unspeakable act of terrorism occurred this week in Paris France. Many bloggers, news outlets, and journalists have been quick to label the individuals responsible for the horrific acts...
View ArticleThis Day In Crazy
You know I think I'm kind of like most people in the world that we inhabit. Most days I wake feeling rested and healthy. Needless to say that's a plus. I have a place I call home and it's well heated;...
View ArticleCharacter Assasination
My mother was a hard-line, no prisoners taken, disciplinarian. Lies were never tolerated, unless of course my other was the one telling the lie.As a child, my mother maintained an invisible "lie jar"...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Hype
It's no wonder that I have very little impact as a blogger/writer on the vast expanse of the internet - I just can't wrap my head around the success of "The Fifty Shades of Grey". And it seems as if...
View ArticleMicro-Racism
Millions of Americans believe that racism is a thing of the past and just doesn't exist any longer. For the most part, those Americans cruise through and live life with fair, meaning white, skin and...
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