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(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 11, 2022 Look at Where America Is--Again!
Response to the rise of bills across the country to suppress the history of white violence toward black Americans.
(15 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 27, 2022 Does America Prefer Fascism to Democratic Socialism?
This is an article in response to the recent spate of gaslighting the American public. I begin with looking at the right-winged reporter's question about Biden moving to the left.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 16, 2022 Remembering the Door of No Return
This is an article employing Howard French's Born in Blackness to discuss the resistance of Americans to relinquish white supremacy.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 2, 2022 bell hooks: The Warm-Hearted Storyteller
Remembering bell hooks at work in the classroom. I remember the response of a young high school student in an Upward Bound program to the reading of Bone Black, hooks' autobiography.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 9, 2021 Troubling Western Identity
This is an article on the continuing effort to erase the history of white supremacy.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 23, 2021 The All-Pervasive Blackness, America's Fear of Democracy
This is a response to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict of last week. The article uses examples from Madison and Kenosha WI, examples of white fear--the fear of the history of white violence.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 6, 2021 An Anti-Democratic Force in Wilmington, NC, November 10, 1898, Part III
This article is third and last part of a breakdown on David Zucchino's 2021 Pulitzer Prize book, Wilmington's Lie (non-fiction). It's look at the history of the suppression of black votes and the backlash sending blacks eventually to the era of Jim Crow.
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(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 2, 2021 White Fear in Wilmington, 1898 Part II
This is Part II of three articles using David Zucchino's Wilmington's Lie (2021) to reflect on a period of US history during and after Reconstruction.
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(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 26, 2021 Democracy's Advocates in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1868
This is the first of a 3-part article series on the Wilmington, North Carolina Massacre. The articles are based on David Zucchino's book, Wilmington's Lie.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 16, 2021 We're Not Safe, Thanks to Facebook
This is a response article to Facebook's business model and it's danger to Black Americans.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Doing the Right Thing Is What Matters
This is an article reflecting on the relevancy of the late June Jordan's understanding of a moral language when we battle for democracy. Reference to the "Civil War" between those opposed to democracy and justice and those in supprt.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 18, 2021 Refusing America's Democratic Ideal, Part II
This is Part II to a two-part series on Du Bois' Black Reconstruction. This article looks at the efforts of former abolitionists Stevens and Sumners and their challenge to the white supremacist, Andrew Johnson.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 25, 2021 Who Will You Ask Black Americans To Vote For, Democrats?
This an article responding to the lack of action on the part of the democratic leadership when it comes to voting restriction laws.
In the meantime, I offer the example of Voting Rights activist Diane Nash and the necessity for non-violent direct action.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 12, 2021 The Company You Keep!
This is an exploration of The Great Gatsby's representation of Black Americans in the 1920s as it relates to the anti-Black sentiments we experience today.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 23, 2021 No Guns Necessary
A look at the relevancy of Professor Carol Anderson's The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America and the suppression of the rights of black Americans
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 9, 2021 At Stake Is the Struggle for Democracy
This is an article about the undermining of the struggle for democracy--beginning in institutions. In this case, I provide a recent experience at a Kenosha hospital.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 31, 2021 America, the Blinded
This is an article on the necessity of understanding and embracing democracy. Foundational to this article is Jamaica Kincaid's novel, Lucy, a protagonist from Antigua, who arrives and works in the household as a nanny to a middle-class white family.