Last week I ruffled a lot of feathers with my blog Yes, Racism Plays A Roll. However, politics aside, we all know that racism is a two way street. I don’t like bigots of any color, and I have met quite a few black, Hispanic, and other racists in my time. Some have been very [...]
Last month the community of Englewood, New Jersey banned Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi from going forward with plans to set up a tent to stay in at a Libyan-owned estate in the upscale community located a few minutes drive north of Manhattan. Gadhafi, or Khadafy, as some news media call him, is scheduled to be [...]
Former President Jimmy Carter made the news this week, when he said that racism played a part when South Carolina Republican Representative Joe Wilson shouted “You lie” at President Obama during a healthcare speech in Congress last week. President Carter told NBC News that he thinks an “overwhelming portion” of the animosity directed toward America’s [...]
I’m sure that headline might upset some people, but if you will read on and let me tell you a story, you may see my point. Once, when I was a young soldier, in a land far, far away, I was ordered to guard a prisoner until whatever spooks from headquarters were interested in him [...]
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Today I hope you take at least a few moments to remember our fellow Americans who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on our nation eight years ago. In the years since, we have seen life change in many ways as a result of those attacks. Some of those changes have been good, some [...]
At one time I knew a woman who had been a teenage victim of incest. It was a terrible thing to have happened, and I truly sympathized with her for a while. But the more I got to know her, the more I realized that she had never dealt with the experience, in spite of [...]
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