American Privilege: White Men Running Amok

09.23.2018 ________________________________________ When privileged white men run amok no one is safe, safe from a president, a judge, a senator, Continue reading →

Mahmoud Darwish: A Person Can Only Be Born in One Place

09.16.2018 ________________________________________  ”I see no other way than to begin now to speak about sharing the land that has thrust Continue reading →

VOTE: Do What Must Be Done

09.09.2018 ________________________________________ In 1960 I did what I had to do. I had recently graduated from Manchester Central and, planning Continue reading →

John McCain: Standing Honorably Against This Present Darkness

“These are the times that try men’s souls,” Thomas Paine wrote in 1776. “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot Continue reading →

Eid al-Adha: Blue-Eyed Blondes to Black-Skinned Africans

08.19.2018 ________________________________________   For more than 1,400 years Muslims have gathered in what is today Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj, the Continue reading →

Who Are The Enemies of The People?

08.12.2018 ________________________________________ I do not write about America; I write about Americans, and most recently I wrote about Americans who’ve Continue reading →

“What You’re Seeing … Is Not What’s Happening.” 

08.05.2018 ________________________________________ It’s George Orwell’s time again. Recently, President Donald Trump evoked, certainly not intentionally, Orwell during a speech at Continue reading →

Ungrateful? Overpaid? Huddled Masses From Every Corner

07.22.2018 ________________________________________  Sports transcends color and borders. Like it or not we live within an intersectional mobile world of movement Continue reading →