Ilhan Omar: It’s An American Story

02.17.2019 ________________________________________ Ilhan Omar is an African-American Muslim who, as a Somali refugee, arrived in America in 1995 and became Continue reading →

MLK 2019: A Tale of Two Kings

01.20.2019 ________________________________________ “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the Continue reading →

The Fruit Of the Righteous Is A Tree Of Life

11.04.2018 ________________________________________ On July 2, 2016, Donald Trump tweeted a picture of Hillary Clinton as the “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” Continue reading →

Violence. Values. Voting: With Whom Do You Stand?

10.21.2018 ________________________________________ In 1963, in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “We will have 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 →

Trump’s America Wears Robes Both Black and White

07.08.2018 ________________________________________  Racism, bigotry and nativist efforts to re-affirm America as a white supremacist nation manifests in many forms; today, Continue reading →

Today, Let Our Jackets Read: I Really Care. Don’t You?

06.24.2018 ________________________________________  When I arrived in the Middle East in 1968 one of my early assignments was to go to Continue reading →