Cherishing your FAMILY … (08/01/15)
The nationwide furor over the growing number of black men inexcusably murdered by white police officers in recent months (184 in the first seven months of 2015 alone — with only 3 of those cases leading to the offending officer or officers being charged with a crime) has put the public spotlight on one of […]
Racism: a solution … (08/01/13)
RACE: the PROBLEM … & a SOLUTION “How do we stop racism? Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man, and I’m going to ask that you to stop calling me a black man.” ~ Morgan Freeman People of color all over the world have been exploited for thousands of […]
Dear Black Man … (07/26/16)
Not only do I openly & unabashedly recognize my own White privilege (which is oddly FAR less pronounced over here in Germany than it is back in the “land of the free”), but I take this moment to also loudly & proudly tell all my non-White brothers & sisters around the world (and especially in […]
Snarfing those Skittles … (07/10/17)
On more than one occasion during past conversations about Islamic immigration, after I had pointed out the fact that Islamic fundamentalists comprise an insanely small percentage of all Muslim immigrants (and all Muslims in general), I heard the comeback: “Sure, but if you were given a huge bowl of Skittles and knew that only three […]
What it always has been all about … (07/09/17)
“When Europeans arrived on any new continent they were colonizing, they blew it every single time — plowing over the indigenous peoples there, taking as much as they could of their land and their valuables, and respecting next to nothing of their native cultures. And as such, European societies have quite clearly lost the wisdom […]
Seeing the Human; acting humanely … (07/07/17)
“Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: ‘Nothing human is alien to me.’ Indeed, the slogan of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the exactly the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.” ~ via Christopher Hitchens
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