Tag: Jim Crow

Ralph Northam’s yearbook photo is actually a group picture

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has admitted to wearing a racist costume and has apologized.  In his 1984 medical school yearbook, there appears someone dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and another in blackface.  Tonight, persons are calling for his resignation. While I take issue with his decision to wear either “costume” […]

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Race is something to talk about

.Reading time 3 minutes.

I’m not one to shy away from a conversation on race and today, Prada had an unplanned one after a passerby noticed a bag in the window of a shop in Soho.  There appeared to be a blackface accessory attached to the bag.  Cue the removal of the bag, a statement from Prada and another […]

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Don’t Occupy Me

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Occupy Wall Street  has now entered its twenty- seventh day and I must confess that except for an article that discussed the spiritual nature of the movement, I have not been following the demonstration that began on September 17, 2011 in New York City’s financial district.  Said to have been inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir […]

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Race

.Reading time 8 minutes.

I know that many persons don’t understand my displeasure with race and I can’t point to the specific time when my intense dissatisfaction began.  In fact, I don’t know why I just can’t let go of the conviction that race must be eradicated, that I don’t see it as others have though I have had many of the same […]

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