My Journal

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s talk about the Carried Interest Loophole.

There’s no question but that a lot of what’s going on today reminds me of the Cotton Kingdom, the principality of sorts that tore our ...