My Journal

Anything about “old white men” given I’m approaching two hundred years old and about as Anglo Saxon as they come… Blond-haired and blue-eyed, all the ...

Mike Bloomberg might be one of the wealthiest men in the country and the former mayor of its largest city, but his pitiful defense of ...

Last week, I wrote about some of the many lies in America’s history. Lies that have been turned into myths and taught to our children ...

Of all the things I found moronic and offensive about the President’s State of the Union Address last week, none was more painfully ridiculous than ...

As a rule, I focus on the issues that are most important to me and try not to get too bogged down in issues of ...

Something brought to light by the advent of Trump’s America that goes back quite a ways is the problem of white folks identifying with their ...

Martin Luther King’s birthday is not only a time to honor Dr. King’s legacy, but also to reflect on the status of racial injustice in ...

President Trump’s calamitous distortions come so quickly that I barely have time to scribble my thoughts down before a new absurdity bursts forth across the ...

As someone who lived in a time when women weren’t even allowed to vote (the 19thAmendment giving women the right to vote wasn’t ratified until ...

Among the latest Trump-family-induced, race-related controversies is the issue of whether Kamala Harris is really “Black,” whether her Jamaican heritage disqualifies her from being a ...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the legacy of slavery, and this son of a Cotton Kingdom slaveholder wants to be sure everyone ...

They’re already talking about the possibility of President Trump winning a second term despite losing the popular vote; supposedly he could lose by as many ...

Am I the only one who’s sick and tired of hearing how wonderful the economy is doing?  Okay, maybe according to the government’s obsolete methodology ...

President Trump is just plain wrong about Robert E. Lee’s skill as a general.  Believe me, if there’s anything this former Confederate officer can speak ...

Am I the only one who can’t believe Governor Northam of Virginia still hasn’t resigned? 

If you recall, even President Trump admitted that his so-called “national emergency” at our southern border is no emergency at all—he didn’t have to do ...

I realize that everyone and their grandmother are demanding that Ralph Northam resign as governor of Virginia (based on having posed either in black face ...

All this hysteria about building a border wall (well, President Trump’s hysteria, anyway) is mostly based on fear and hatred of “the other.”

There was recently an article in The Guardian entitled “Pride and Prejudice? The Americans Who Fly the Confederate Flag” that is worthy of attention.

Lately I’m reminded of one of Abraham Lincoln’s famous quotes during the Civil War, a time that is still fresh in my mind given how ...