A few weeks ago there was a CNN poll conducted that, for many people, was illuminating. The only part of it illuminating for me was that the numbers weren’t more severe. The first number was that 49% of the American population thought racism was a big problem. This number is higher than after the O.J. […]
In the middle of last week I was watching a YouTube video created by someone I know, though not overly well. He was talking about going into a bar and having a black guy calling him all sorts of names. When he asked the guy why he was calling him those names, the response was […]
Goodness! When I wrote my last post and published it I took a look at all posts, realizing I had another post to write for Friday… and realized I was at 1,199, which makes this my 1,200th post on this blog; how about that! I wrote post #1,100 back in August of 2013, which was […]
Today happens to be the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, where millions of Jewish people and, it turns out, other “undesirables” as deemed by the Nazis, were killed without thought or morose. It’s an acknowledgment of overcoming something so heinous that there shouldn’t be anyone who doesn’t know what happened there. […]
Last night I was made aware of recent comments by the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban. He was talking about the Donald Sterling situation, the present owner of the Los Angeles Clippers who may be forced to sell his team for racial statements about black people and, specifically, Magic Johnson. His positions were […]
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