god bless america II
A sequel to my “god bless america” poem.
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The Confederate Flag and the Civil War
“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery – the greatest material interest of the world.”
The Facts of Racial Disparities In Policing, the Criminal Justice System and More
“Ending white supremacy requires the ability to do math—350 years of murderous plunder are not undone by 50 years of uneasy ceasefire.” – Ta-Nehisi Coates
America Needs Introspection
I think as a country, we have a tendency to employ amnesia to history and to not have much introspection about what we do due to the aforementioned belief in exceptionalism
Christopher Columbus and Cultural Relativism
Today’s Columbus Day and it seems emblematic of everything that is wrong with the way history is taught and understood Continue reading
American Exceptionalism? Eh
You often hear from both parties, conservatives and liberals, that America is somehow exceptional. But why is this? After the Continue reading
Michael Brown’s Autopsy, Character and Racial Profiling (And More from Ferguson)
The only matter of fact that needs uncovering is whether Officer Darren Wilson was legally justified under Missouri law to shoot Michael Brown the six times that he did. That’s it.
