“The Post- Racial America Alert System”

It comes from the Department of Post- Racial America and is used to assure us that “race is a thing of the past.”  It’s a clever video and certainly offers another way to look at the incidents of police- related deaths involving unarmed African American men and women against the hope of a post- racial […]

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View From the Top of the Box

I have been thinking about why I think the way that I do about race.  I am well- read on the historical origins of the social construct of race and current practice of its progeny, here being prejudice, stereotypes, white privilege and racial profiling.  I hear the stories and have been a part of my […]

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Karen Fitzgibbons: A blast from the past

A recent Facebook posting by a fourth grade teacher in Texas or maybe I should say former teacher of Friendship Independent School District has set off a firestorm.  Karen Fitzbiggons has said more than a mouthful in response to yet another example of police misconduct.  This time it was in McKinney, Texas at a pool party. […]

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Examining the Depraved Heart

Clearly, I am still thinking about the death of Freddie Gray and Officer Goodson, one of six officers charged with crimes that led to his untimely death.  Officer Goodson has been charged with second degree depraved heart murder.  Thanks to a twenty- four- hour news cycle and countless crime shows, I am too familiar with […]

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Life after the death of Freddie Gray

President Barack Obama has called for “soul searching” but I wonder what are we in search of?  What are we looking for that might challenge us to do what is right, just and fair in the eyes of the Law?  What do we need that would allow us to look into the eyes of another […]

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