Hillary Clinton held a very short, private meeting with Black Lives Matter Continue reading Blog#42: Video of #HillaryClinton’s #BLM meeting in Keene, NH| #BlackLivesMatter
Monthly Archives: August 2015
My favorite piano rendition of Summertime? Gene Harris’, hands down! | #Jazz on Blog#42
I grew up listening to Jazz, specifically Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz. Continue reading My favorite piano rendition of Summertime? Gene Harris’, hands down! | #Jazz on Blog#42
Jobs Report for July: Solid job gains, no wage pressures | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy
Jobs Report for July: Solid job gains, no wage pressures
#BlackLivesMatter has always mattered to me. The #Facts too! | Blog#42
There is a first time for everything. This is the first time I publish profanity. After reading “White Bernie Sanders supporters should talk less and listen more to BlackLivesMatter activists,” by Joshua Holland, I have something to say to him and all the others who, like him, presume to have the authority to tell the rest of us how to think and feel for ourselves. Before I start, I’ll note that it takes a special kind of chutzpah to call oneself a democrat and pull that kind of stunt… Continue reading #BlackLivesMatter has always mattered to me. The #Facts too! | Blog#42
Look at me | #Writing about #race on Blog#42
Look at me.
I mean, get really close and look.
I don’t fit into your book?
But you see
I have no book
In spite of the way I look
I am neither white, nor brown, or Black
Too brown
Not brown enough
To whites, not white enough
White to everyone else
But other to all
I am all and I am nothing
An Ay-Rab to one uncle
To another, too much of a Jew
My grievances?
Criticized, minimized
My thoughts?
Reduced as invalid
Derided as of the privileged
My affection?
Pushed away
My pain
What pain?
Look at me!
Really look at me.
See me?
A quote from Martin Luther King’s “Three Evils of Society”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Three Evils of Society
August 31, 1967 Continue reading A quote from Martin Luther King’s “Three Evils of Society”
Bernie Sanders’ Plan for #RacialJustice | #CivilRights and #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42
Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan to fight for racial justice Continue reading Bernie Sanders’ Plan for #RacialJustice | #CivilRights and #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42
Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech: “The Three Evils of Society | #CivilRights on Blog#42
Martin Luther King gave “The Three Evils of Society” speech on August 31, 1967, at the first and only National Conference on New Politics in Chicago. Continue reading Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech: “The Three Evils of Society | #CivilRights on Blog#42
#Exceptionalism: mass-Incarceration, hunger and a secret #police facility | #TheNewJimCrow on Blog#42
A serious human rights crisis has been ongoing in our nation for some time, Continue reading #Exceptionalism: mass-Incarceration, hunger and a secret #police facility | #TheNewJimCrow on Blog#42
Police brutality: what killer cops don’t know | #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42
So far, just about every cop we know of who was embroiled in a police killing Continue reading Police brutality: what killer cops don’t know | #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42