it’s The Water Baby, The Water!!

It’s The Water Baby The Water! Yesterday the news was full of stories about the condition of the Colorado River. That river provides a water source for 7 of the western states. The river is down to a twenty year record low. That low is about to force those 7 states into reduced water availability […]

The Symptom and the Disease!

This morning one of the MSNBC talking heads posited the question “why was a single individual, Donald Trump capable of plunging the nation into this dark pit”. That question seeks to reduce this problem to its lowest common denominator. The truth is that Trump is not the disease, he is the symptoms of what’s wrong […]

Collective Madness!!

A kind of collective madness is gripping this country. When Barack Obama was elected President the white Christian Nationalist and alt right were quick to label him as the anti-christ. It wasn’t because of anything he had done, it was because he had broken the barrier to a black man being elected President. Now we […]

Juneteenth, The Latest Magicians Trick!!

I’m going to be a Debbie Downer today. Today across this nation people are celebrating Juneteenth. It’s now an official holiday and it means nothing. It’s an appeasement. We can’t protect voting rights but we can give you a day to commemorate the freeing of the slaves. America loves symbolism. The Edmond Pettus bridge is […]

Suicide!

Reading and writing ✍️ are fundamental. I’m going to say it again reading and writing ✍️ are fundamental. There’s a reason that slave holders didn’t want their slaves to be able to read. Reading lays the foundation for reasoning skills. We live in a society where we are separated into two political tribes. The bad […]

The Reckoning Is Coming!

Today is June 3rd 2022 and amazingly people still don’t get it. In the face of all the data there are still people who believe we dodged a bullet on January 6th of 2021. Contrary to popular belief we didn’t dodge a bullet, we were mortally wounded. We recieved no triage and our wounds grew […]

Race Is Always A Factor!

I shouldn’t have to explain this to anyone but I will. The black experience is uniquely different from our white counter parts. We have 400 years of being treated as less than human. I’m not saying that there aren’t white people who have had it hard. I know that there are. However being black was […]

Courage!

The Constitution has never been a perfect document. From the beginning the founders recognized the imperfection of the Constitution. The Constitution that Americans revere has codified many injustices such as the Dredd Scott Supreme Court decision and the Chinese imigration laws of 1882. Brave courageous Presidents have been willing to test the boundaries of the […]

What’s It Going To Take??

I wonder what its going to take to wake you up. Last year the people of Detroit gave Mike Duggan the overseer a third term as mayor. In a city with a black church on every corner the people gave Mike Duggan a third term. In a city where people were forced to over pay […]

Race Relations in The US!

The problem with race relations in the United States is that we don’t relate to one another. When black people say that all they want is to be left in peace and to have the same opportunity as any white American. For many of our white citizens this is a bridge too far. They have […]