“Compassion” has become an expletive—and we’re willing to look the other way on solving “issues” as long as it will allow the people operating the city’s daily paper to walk downtown on their annual trip to Pike Place because “there’s really no reason to go downtown, but I want it to look nice for the tourists.”
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“Brought to Heel” or “Fear Sucks Up”
Corporate media has all of the moral courage of school paste.
Never Giving Up—Never Backing Down
Today celebrates the fact that those in power will never give it up until they have to. On this date in 1865—two years after the Emancipation and TWO MONTHS after the rebellion fueled by racism ended—slaveholders in Texas literally gave up what they believe was “theirs” ONLY at the point of a gun. The factContinue reading “Never Giving Up—Never Backing Down”
Symbols Matter: Now more than ever
The construction, destruction and control of symbols have been a way for some people in American society to mark their territory.
The Paradox
The Bully and the Hero
The hero who we honor on this day gave his life putting a hand out, not a fist.
Perception, Reality and Marching
On this day we remember, recognize and celebrate the anniversary of one of the key moments of beginning of the end of “American Apartheid”
Far beyond the Stars
Seeing somebody that looks like you IS important.
Russell Rules: To NEVER “shut up and dribble”
A man that understood that at the time he was in the American spotlight he had a responsibility beyond just dribbling a ball.
Nothing to see here
The saddest part is just how so blasé we’ve become to it: 10 people dead. An admitted racist who livestreamed his heinous act because he feared for his Christian Whiteness. And it’s no longer a lead story. The regularity of White people killing with weapons of war has become numbing: CharlestonOrlandoPittsburghEl PasoAtlantaOxford, Michiganand now BuffaloContinue reading “Nothing to see here”
Thoughts From A Short Round Black Man 