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Talk! Yet Aim Not To Wound. Thought is Your Friend. Embrace it. Own Your Emotions. Don’t Let Them Own You.

Racism is a false belief, born out of a desire to prematurely close the inquiry into what makes each of us human. At the root of such desire is fear – fear of knowing the other – which when unexamined leads to their devaluing, their mistreatment, their abuse and death.

Trump- Political Screwup Coming Up

You’re about to follow an impressive military operation in Venezuela with a political screwup.Why? Because you seem unwilling to trust Maria Corina Machado and her people.Somehow, you’ve got it into your head, that the lady won’t be able to deal with the sharks circling around her.But she would be able.The lady is not alone and…

Immigration is a Distraction

What we need to be doing, instead, is pushing Russia and China back, militarily.This is the time.But our president seems incapable of imagining the possibility, let alone doing what is needed to make it happen.Our man in the White House lacks the needed vision because he is not a free man himself.Free men and women…

Why Trump Won’t Win

A central part of Trump’s personality is that he overvalues himself and devalues others.Mind you, that tendency exists in most human beings but, if unexamined and unchecked, it grows to become a big problem.In Trump’s case it comes across as grandiosity. ‘Look at me, I am the one!’In a recent question/answer session with Black journalists,…

Black Woman Against White Man

Hello America!We’re getting a chance to see how much we’ve evolved.Are we really where we think we are racially and sexually?To hear the Trump side, women should know their place. At home raising children. Mind you, that is a most honorable choice, but women in this country have been fighting for parity for a long…

It’s Harris’s Moment

And she’s having a ball.Flush with excitement, she addressed the crowd at her first rally in Wisconsin and earlier at campaign headquarters in Delaware and each time she exuded confidence.‘People, I’m doing this and we are going to win!’And she smiled broadly, her eyes sparkled and right in front of the cameras she went up…

No On a Two State Solution

Negotiations are under way to end the conflict in Gaza. But the conflict won’t end. It never does.Why should Israelis live under the constant threat that Palestinians will violate any agreement they make and attack them again?Since Israel’s independence in 1948 there have been many efforts to establish treaties calling for peaceful coexistence.Sometimes they have…

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