Since this blog is mostly about race, racism, and social policy, I need to insure that we are speaking the same language and discussing the same phenomenon. Please see my ten minute TEDx talk from 2014 at the following URL for background on my future discussions.
Last September, 107-year-old Mamie Kirkland returned to Ellisville, Mississippi, a town she left at seven years of age in 1915. Fleeing a lynch mob, Mamie’s father, Edward Lang, a laborer and aspiring minister, left town abruptly in the middle of the night with instructions for his wife to catch the train with their five children … [Read more…]
In the words of the late Maya Angelou, “when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” It is about time for African Americans to believe who former president Bill Clinton really is. In an encounter last month with Black Lives Matter activists in Philadelphia, Mr. Clinton refused to acknowledge the harm … [Read more…]