My Journal

Mexican American Border Wall

A National Emergency?

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 ...
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Ralph Northam

Ralph Northam Should Resign

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 ...
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Refugees

Fear of “the Other”

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

The Confederate Flag

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

Three Rustbelt States

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 ...
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Burning Dumpster

Exploiting the Murder of Mollie Tibbetts

Even I, the Gallant Pelham, the same dude who has been railing about America’s disgraceful treatment of the “other” for over 150 years (if only ...
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Charlottesville

Charlottesville a Year Later (Part 3)

When I last left off I was talking about the impact of globalization and the “new economy” on the surge of racism in our country, but ...
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Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham “Dog Whistle”

What about that awful woman on Fox News, Laura Ingraham? Even if I usually disagreed with her, there was a time when I respected her ...
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Charlottesville

Charlottesville a Year Later (Part 2)

When I last left off, I was talking about what’s behind the near explosion of racially motivated hatred in our country.
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Charlottesville a Year Later

A year has passed since the tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia that truly shocked a good portion of our country. The bad news is that ...
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Lebron James

Trump Attacks LeBron James

LeBron James is a big boy (to put it mildly!), who doesn’t need a white boy like me sticking up for him, but in this ...
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Putin and Trump

What’s Our Priority?

All this business about Trump’s campaign collaborating with the Russians and the suspicion that Russian President Putin has Trump in his pocket is another convenient ...
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Cookie Crumbs

Desperate for Crumbs!

Thanks to globalization, automation and technology, the “top 1%” (which is rapidly shrinking to. 01%!), has working people so desperate to maintain their supposedly “middle ...
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Trump

Trump is NEVER the Truth

Given I was taught that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all, I don’t know what to say about ...
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Soldier Saluting Flag

America’s “Ongoing Wars” and the “Military Class”

It hasn’t gotten a lot of attention lately, but in case you haven’t noticed, America’s ongoing wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, you name it, if it’s in ...
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Separated Child behind Fence

Separating Children from Their Parents

The separation of children from their parents going on at the U.S. border is a disgusting national disgrace for which we should all be ashamed.
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Black Lives Matter

What can I say about the shooting of Antwon Rose?

What can I say about the shooting of Antwon Rose, Jr. (age 17) in Pittsburgh that I didn’t say about Stephon Clark (age 22) in ...
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Melania Trump

“I Really Don’t Care, do U?”

We know that our current First Lady, Milania Trump, is no Eleanor Roosevelt and doesn’t aspire to be, but suffice to say she’s shown her ...
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Income Inequality

Trumps Tax Cuts Will Add to Income Inequality

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi got in trouble with a lot of people for saying the middle class got nothing but “crumbs” from the Trump tax ...
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Black Lives Matter

Another Unarmed Black Man Falls Victim

We now have another unarmed young black man shot and killed by the police, this time in Sacramento, the latest in the American countdown, so ...
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