The phrase, “I don’t see color,” is problematic. For some reason people feel good, even proud when they say it. They look to me for
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The Matrix: White Rabbit, Woodstock and Summer of Soul
The dormouse never said “feed your head.”1 Maybe that is the paradox of the Jefferson Airplane 1967 song telling you to remember something that never
The Gaslighting of Justice: Rape, Murder and Backdoors
In 1969, the Rolling Stones released Gimme Shelter and I’m haunted by one of the verses, “rape, murder, it’s just a shot away.” Brock Turner,
That’s Life: The Olympic Trials, Blackish and Holidays
Athletes have their event(s.) That particular thing in which they excel, where they go into the zone, it’s mental, it’s physical, it’s being the best
Nights of Living Dread: Rodney King, Kokito and George Floyd
On March 12, 2018, a dog, Kokito, died after a flight attendant placed the pet carrier with the animal in it in the overhead compartment
Balancing History: Mob Rules by the Month
Here it is, the kind of obligatory Black history month blog post. The month was proposed by in 1926 by black historian, Carter G Woodson;
Balancing on Unstable Surfaces 