THE CONTINUING PERILS OF RACE, RACISM…
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THE CONTINUING PERILS OF RACE, RACISM…

Watching and listening to a Black television host recently, I didn’t feel anyway put off when he said, matter-of-factly (straight up): “The first thing that comes to mind every...

BLACK HISTORY IS NOT AN ANNUAL FEBRUARY PHENOMENON
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BLACK HISTORY IS NOT AN ANNUAL FEBRUARY PHENOMENON

It’s just history, world history, everybody’s history and must be treated as such, a historic norm. Much like “Perennial Philosophy” “European” or other history… there are always lessons to...

BLACK HISTORY 2021: SO WHAT DID YOU LEARN?
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BLACK HISTORY 2021: SO WHAT DID YOU LEARN?

So another Black History Month has been observed. Now, I don’t know if the correct term to describe the 28 or 29 days of BHM is “recognize”, “observe”, or...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH SEASON
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH SEASON

Our history: It’s a perpetual learning process and experience with ample resources to nourish and sustain us… if there’s a hunger It’s February so it must be that annual...

WHITE PEOPLE THINKING… TALKING BLACK?
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WHITE PEOPLE THINKING… TALKING BLACK?

It’s all about convenience, not about what concerns us… I’m not a social media aficionado by any stretch, but I do maintain an open mind vis-à-vis the abundance of...

BEING BLACK SO FAR
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BEING BLACK SO FAR

There he goes again: Black this, black that. Black, black, black, black… ad infinitum. Sure it may be irritating to some… but being Black is my identity, my daily...

2020: WHAT AN EVENTFUL YEAR
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2020: WHAT AN EVENTFUL YEAR

It truly was one for the ages… In 2019, just after Canadian Thanksgiving, I had a conversation with some people about the gradual, then obsessive preoccupation with Christmas once...

NO! BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT MONOLITHIC Opinions

NO! BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT MONOLITHIC

Many African Americans also fell under Donald Trump’s Republican spell… I know, I know there are more important and interesting issues and things to write about than an individual...

America denies its first incipient autocrat Opinions

America denies its first incipient autocrat

FLIRTING WITH TOTALITARIANISM? GOOD RIDDANCE, DON Who knew the character, personality, ambitions… of the man, how far they would take him, and how they would be manifested in the...

MAY THE WORST MAN LOSE Opinions

MAY THE WORST MAN LOSE

The man many predicted would walk the political plank surprised his detractors… for a while I stayed up late Monday night, Novemeber 2, the eve of age U.S. elections...