The way most of us who do seminars on diversity approach the subject is from the point of view that people are people, regardless of the differences in their backgrounds, and that we all must at least give consideration to those facts so that we can treat each other fairly in this world. Though that’s […]
This is more of a local story, but I do live in the Syracuse, NY area. There’s an interesting story in the Syracuse Post Standard this Sunday morning on how difficult it is to have a black-owned businesses in central New York than anywhere else in the Upstate communities. It then goes into many other […]
There are some legitimate mysteries, then some created because of, well, strange reasons. Such is the case of how Booker T. Washington passed away. I like to say education cures all ills; well, it’s not quite true. Based on the attached story, it was an educated man who created the mystery; now, other educated people […]
(originally published July 2nd, 2005) I know things aren’t going well between Mexico and black people in America today, but how can even the President of the country not think this is outrageous: For those of you who don’t know, these are the newest stamps being put out by the Mexican government of one of […]
(originally published October 4th, 2005) Last week William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education under Bush Sr, said a very bad thing on his radio show that I’m not going to repeat. It made headlines, kind of, for a day and then it disappeared. He didn’t apologize; didn’t even see why he had to apologize, […]
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