Wednesday 23 May 2012
At a Tea Party rally there is a vendor selling t-shirts saying, “Yup, I’m a racist” in patriotic colors. There is a Republican presidential candidate, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, now leading the polls in Iowa, who signed onto a pledge from an Iowa Christian group that originally said, “Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American...
When I was a child watching movies, it was the Mau Mau who were the villains and the white colonialists who were portrayed as the good guys. It wasn’t until much later that I realized that the Mau Mau were freedom fighters and it was the opposite that was true. Now we have President...
The world we are leaving for our children and grandchildren is competitive in ways not seen before. President Barack Obama reiterated the national effort to ease the path to citizenship for “the best and the brightest” from around the world. And with the globalization of information transfer, they don’t even have to come stateside...
It turns out that the cynics who said Osama bin Laden was not in a cave, but was probably somewhere living in luxury, were more right than not. He was in a million dollar compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, living with his wife and family in some of the largest and most distinctive buildings in...
“A vague feeling of illness or depression” is how the dictionary defines malaise and with 72% of people in a recent New York Times poll feeling the country is headed in the wrong direction, then I think a sense of malaise is the baseline mood of the masses of people, along with increasing spikes...
Economic Segregation We visited the Brooklyn Children’s Museum this past weekend with two of the grandchildren and their mother and had a wonderful round of educational experiences, looking at insects through magnifying glasses, being served pretend pizza with toppings and playing in water. The big surprise was the cost of $37.50 for three adults...
An earthquake, a tsunami and now with multiple nuclear catastrophes, Japan is suffering unlike any other nation before. The release of radioactivity across the country is an environmental disaster several magnitudes above the Gulf oil spill. Renown physicist Dr. Michio Kaku said this could be a “Chernobyl in the making” and it is something...
One of the things American history glosses over is that the American Civil War was about money and how much can be made when there’s no cost for the labor, other than the minimum food, health and welfare, that would keep the labor alive. The Civil War ended and the labor was freed, but...
Pro-Lifers Cause Furor With Racist Billboard in SoHo It is fitting that as Black History and Women’s History Month meet, the same consciousness that excluded both groups from the Constitution and behaved in ways that made those two months necessary, is still at work and has placed a billboard on...
We have heard “We Shall Overcome” in many accents, and now we hear the words “Million Man March” from the African Diaspora, being taken up by revolutionaries on the streets of the most ancient African countries, Egypt. “Culture is a weapon” is a tenet of the December 12th Movement, and here we see how...
