There Is A Lesson Here For All Of Us
While no rational person could fail to see ever-worsening climate change as a major contributor to the Houston flooding, there is a compounding problem, as the following report makes clear.…
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No Matter What His Motivation Might Have Been, This Is Just Wrong
ATLANTA—A white Cobb County police lieutenant has been moved to administrative duty for telling a white woman during a traffic stop, “Remember, we only shoot Black people.” Recommend this Post
An Old Favourite, Updated
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Strong Evidence Of Trump’s Racism
The CBC’s Neil Macdonald has written a searing assessment of Donald Trump that leaves little doubt that the Americans elected a racist president. His starting pint is an interview conducted…
I Remain transfixed
Until relatively recently, I did not think I would live so long as to see this future. Recommend this Post
Sixty-two Years Ago Today
On August 28, 1955, Emmett Till was murdered in a horrific racist crime that reverberated throughout the world. In April of this year, Jazz Night in America recorded Wadada Leo…
For Your Sunday Consideration
Thanks t my friend Gary, who sent me this: Recommend this Post
Part 11 – Echoes Of History: 1955 And 2017
In Part 1, I discussed the murder of Emmett Till, the exoneration of his murderers, and the tactics used by the racists of 1955 Mississippi to try to discredit both…
A Glimpse Of The Religiously Insane
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Echoes Of History: 1955 and 2017
From this tragedy large, diverse groups of people organized a movement that grew to transform a nation, not sufficiently but certainly meaningfully. What matters most is what we have and…
Deciphering White Supremacists
The New York Times provides a very useful glossary of the terms favoured by white supremacists these days. Be sure to check it out. As well, the following video breaks…
A Very, Very Timely Message
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a timely and very powerful message for Donald Trump and his racist supporters: If you go to the YouTube page where this video is posted, you will…
Will This Saudi ‘Explanation’ Give Freeland And Trudeau The Cover They Desperately Seek?
As I recently wrote, I am very doubtful that the Trudeau government will rescind its $15 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, damning evidence of the Saudi deployment of the…
For Your Consideration
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No, Mr. Trump, There Aren’t Two Sides
Although issues of justice and equity have concerned me throughout most of my life, as I move through my final decades I find matters becoming more, not less, pressing. Clearly,…
This Is Chilling
Make no mistake. If you are against Trump, you are an enemy of the state. The US government is seeking to unmask every person who visited an anti-Trump website in…
They Never Disappoint Me
‘They’ would be Star readers who write letters to the editor. The following demonstrate that, like many others, they have taken the full measure of Donald Trump and found him…
A Timely Message
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland continues to treat the Canadian public as children, revealing nothing as to what our country’s goals are in the upcoming NAFTA renegotiations. The only peek…
Unfit For Office
I am not writing as much these days, preferring to read, learn and reflect. Perhaps serendipitously, I am currently half-way through a book entitled The Blood of Emmet Till, a…
Canadians (And Pretty Much The Rest Of The World) Had Better Be Careful
Watch the following and you will see why: Recommend this Post