The New York Police Department’s (NYPD) Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating after two Asian women were attacked in Manhattan on Sunday, with one being…
Posts published in “Race”
A new book suggests now the necessity of reexamining the historical materialist project of Walter Benjamin recognizing those moments of historical contact as acts of…
The 2020 election showed how Trump was defeated by defections among white women but there remain a sizable number still wedded to supporting white male…
The sponsors of campus speakers like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos, Young America’s Foundation took on Pete Buttigieg, thinking that they were delivering trenchant criticism. Instead, they’ve…
Black Girl Magic has become the nouveau riche way modern society describes the accomplishments of the current crop of black women and girls, but have existed…
It is a cruel irony that before the start of the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin the state of Minnesota is one of many…
Yesterday the state of Georgia defined election integrity as—black people not voting. Republicans love to throw around the image of liberal politicians in hemp-filled rooms…
More “bad days” ahead. We’re not going to throw up our hands even as social media now shifts to predictable Islamophobia. Notable is that the…
Back on March 2, President Joe Biden implored the states of Mississippi and Texas not to jump the gun by lifting their mask mandates. “I…
Oprah Winfrey’s query of the exiled Royals was a superfluous gesture to most black Americans. That was until she brought up the subject of the…
I took a day to think about the death of radio personality Rush Limbaugh. My immediate thoughts were snark-provoking. Although Limbaugh spent over 30 years…
In 2008 when former President Obama was thrust into one of the biggest financial messes since the depression of 1929, his stated goal was to…
This continues the diary of two days ago. Nostalgia is a coping mechanism at the place known for its association with William Faulkner. Oxford Mississippi is…
I was talking to a colleague yesterday and a word that has driven me crazy since its entrance into the lexicon in the last 20…
Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave, His…
If the expected Bluewave rushes over the levee of American politics and washes away the dirt of tyranny; are we looking at a red-secession? If you…
The hope for a post-Trump era will bring with it already growing challenges to democracy. Along with $3 for a glass of water. x Pres.…
For most black people in America, we encounter three types of white people. The first are the sleepers, those who live in a somnambulant world…
< p style=”text-align:justify”>Moderator: Mr. Trump, how would you protect the suburbs? Trump: BOO! I am not sure at what time or where the first presidential…
It strikes me as curious as to why the Black Lives Matter slogan is such an irritant to a large number of conservatives. It seems…
I have lived a lot of years, and I have seen a lot of injustices. The “talk” that has been so widely spoken about in…
When George W. Bush stood in the rubble of the World Trade Center in 2001, a plurality of Republicans and to be fair a large…
In a meeting with a group of children and their parents, held more than nine years ago, a little girl asked Congressman John Lewis what…
“Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) died on Friday at the age of 80 after battling with pancreatic cancer, per multiple reports, including NBC…
President Donald Trump said a few days ago that in a mask, he believes he looks like the “Lone Ranger.” Setting aside, that even the…
Made to order for whenever the national guard(s) and whatever federal riot squads are ready in DC to trash BLM demonstrators. Heck, the RWNJs could…
I could go into a long pedagogical dissertation about allostatic loads or adverse childhood experiences but why complicate a simple premise. I will let the…
Since the latest media frame “defend/defund the police” is self-limiting, the discourse should move to redefining emergency services much as “first-responders” has expanded to include…
Will possibly outting Lindsey Graham hurt his reelection chances this year? My extremely jaded, cynical view says “No.” It seems to be an open secret…
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, on the heels of the Colin Kaepernick kneeling episode, commented in 2018 on the opinions of basketball players, LeBron James, and…
There are many people angry and hurt and I get that greatly ! I have been angry for a long long time about Police brutality. …
I’m posting this to put up some of the local tweets considering the number of major city curfews. I’ll be updating this for the next…
I watched the movies Kill Bill 1&2 for the umpteenth time last night. I endured the blood and guts, the pulpy glamorizing of violence, and…
Much of this narrative still has to play out, but birding, animal cruelty, privilege, Central Park, class, culture, all are part of this bit of…
I have written a little sporadically over the past few weeks, which is not my norm. I love to read but writing gives me pleasure.…
No, no we do not hate anybody—we have heard that from our parents, our teachers, and our clergy since we have been able to decipher…
First an apology. My post yesterday on my decision to vote for Warren (which I did at about 9:45 AM) and to contribute to her…
Seeing what you want to see to the exclusion of all else is not only to deny facts, it is dangerous. Proof of that is…
The recent case of DeAndre Arnold, a black Texas teen of Trinidadian extraction, who is not being allowed to walk the stage to celebrate his…
In the Republican Party’s continued plunge into racism, former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley tethered herself to white nationalism and bungee jumped…
There are misnomers in this great big wide country of ours. One is that non-voting minorities, young people and women, are responsible for the election…
The evolution of change is usually the result of slow transformation; the wheel led to wagons; the wagons led to cars, cars led to rockets…
Republicans are trying to make “no quid pro quo” the new “no collusion.” Guess what? There doesn’t have to be any quid pro quo for…
In “Donald Trump is the First White President,” Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a tour de force take down of the always absurd argument that Trump’s presidential…
First and foremost, what this diary isn't: it isn't a discussion of the demographics of people shot and killed by the police. I'd love to…
I know that many in the community here, and rightly so, are ready to move past emotionally cathartic posts about their feelings on the election.…
the truth of power: Adjunct law professor fired for “reprehensible” comments about Black students (video)
We haven’t gotten past the angst-ridden discourse of privilege and buoyancy even in law schools. Then again E. Jean Carroll really wants that DNA sample from…