First, I would like to remember all those who lost their lives this day. I pray for all the families who were directly impacted and the country as a whole. I am back with another blog post where every Monday I will exclusively talk about … [Read more...]
Democrats Can’t Support Baker AND Wonder Why Voters Stay Home
Several top Democrats have all but endorsed the re-election of Gov. Charlie Baker, and I want to talk about just one reason why that could potentially cripple the party's effort to convince people to register, turn out, and vote … [Read more...]
GOP’s Race War Still Dividing the Working Class
From Richard Nixon's efforts to divide poor whites & blacks to Ronald Reagan's open "Cadillac welfare queens" race-baiting to the Romney/Ryan 47% and makers/takers, using race to divide working-class whites from working-class blacks has … [Read more...]
$$ in politics perpetuates race- and gender-based inequality.
The increasing political power of corporations means that women and people of color have less clout in politics than they deserve. Money in politics perpetuates economic inequality, of course, but it also negatively impacts the feminist … [Read more...]
“Racial Profiling Is Alive And Well”
This incident itself is an opening to the issue of racial profiling. Here are links to information about two other recent, prominent cases: http://www.aclum.org/news/2007... http://www.aclum.org/docket/va... The first involves the … [Read more...]
Race is everything.
Race is everything. by Kevin Sowyrda We're living in a crude time of racial centric politics. Nothing new, you say? Then check out the recent news concerning judiciary appointments in both Washington and Boston. Everything is … [Read more...]
Distorting Holder’s comments about race
I hate to draw readers' attention to Jeff Jacoby but his column about Eric Holder today is so full of bull... Distortion #1 - Holder did not say we are a nation of cowards. He said we're a nation of cowards when it comes to dealing with … [Read more...]
Recipe for Good Race Discussion: What Eric Holder Left Out
Although frank talk on race calls for structured dialogue, lest anyone think "structured" means "straightjacketed," it's quite the contrary. Once you've agreed to ground rules for respectful dialogue, it actually frees people up to say … [Read more...]
Incarceration and race
This link says it all. For example, in Massachusetts, African-Americans are about 7% of the population but almost 30% of the inmates. Here it is, state by state: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9381... Probably someone could pull this … [Read more...]
The Cohen-Langhart Effect
On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981, ordering "equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin." As a result, we have … [Read more...]