Tag: Black Lives Matter
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I Have A Feeling THESE 20’s Are About To “Really” Roar
The Roaring 1920’s brought economic prosperity to the Western world — until a lot of that prosperity turned out to be phony, crony capitalism — and the world plunged into the Great Depression. These 20’s — the 2020’s — are about to roar as well — but for a whole different reason. The underlying cause […]
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Whatever We Have To Do To Get Black Women Political Power, We MUST Do It
I’ve made a bet that I won’t be around to collect on. But, if I could be? I would collect: history will credit Black women with saving America from itself. I feel proud to my core that Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s VP pick. I would have felt pretty close to equally proud with any […]
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How WOULD America Act If Trump COULD Finish His Authoritarian Coup D’Etat?
We are living through the most jaw-dropping story no writer could possibly write (and get away with). But the rules of storytelling still apply — because storytelling rules are based on how human beings behave. When storytellers get human beings wrong? The people listening to their stories bail. The stories no longer make sense because […]
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America’s Gun Laws Are Racist
That’s not a revelation. No one should read that headline and think “You know, I never thought of that.” They should think: “Damn right they are!” That’s how obvious it is. This is not virgin territory. Not even remotely. Plenty of ink — electronic or otherwise — has been spent on the subject. Consider that […]
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“E Pluribus Unum” Is What America Was Always Meant To Be — “From Many, One”
“Out of many, one”. That’s what “E pluribus unum” means. It was approved as America’s motto in 1782 as part of the act that created Americia’s Great Seal. “E pluribus unum” and “Novus ordo securum” (new order of the ages) were afixed to it. Together, “out of many, one” and “new order of the ages” […]