Diversity

Today is the Dr. King holiday, and what’s odd is that the news out today is that “scholars” are saying that his legacy is being oversimplified. Supposedly, the message these scholars are putting out is that most people have one memory of who Dr. King is, that being the “I Have A Dream” speech in […]

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Sometimes you get so involved in your own thing that you missed other events that you’d like to at least have the opportunity to comment on. Well, I missed two, so I’m taking care of that right now. The first one I missed was World Diabetes Day, which I’d never heard of until the day […]

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This isn’t a long post, but something I wanted to share. My wife’s cousin sent me this link to a video at YouTube, and it’s pretty deep, but doesn’t have an embed, so you have to go to their site. It’s called A Black Woman’s Smile, and it’s a video presentation created by Ty Gray […]

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A nationally syndicated radio host named Warren Ballentine is urging black Americans to participate in what he’s calling a “black out” tomorrow. In essence, he wants black Americans to not buy a single product tomorrow to try to send a message that “blacks are fed up with racism and injustice, and he rejects criticism that […]

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Here’s a tough one to think about. I’m reading a news story a few days ago about the Swedish cartoonist who drew a picture of Allah as a dog and created all the firestorm and controversy that came afterwards from Muslims, who decided that this man needed to have a price on his head, and […]

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