How Does A Newcomer Learn Expected Courtesy in Controversy at KOS?
I value the free exchange of ideas between people with widely differing viewpoints. I also understand the fear that the free exchange of ideas can be stiffled by people who are nasty and even abusive...
View ArticleWe Speak Of Things That Matter, In Words That Must Be Said . . . .
In the 60s and 70s it was not a few violent people in the civil rights movement that made the movement look bad. In any sizeable group there are always a few violent people.What changed was the media...
View ArticleAll Meals In Baltimore Public Schools Are Now Free For All Students!
Finally, all students in the Baltimore Public Schools are now equal in the place where it probably matters to the most students. All school meals are now provided free to all students. Forget your...
View ArticleIntro To Black Lives Matter More Than Flags: Putting Charleston SC Into...
Black lives matter. The lives of the nine exceptionally fine people that were murdered in a traditionally black church in Charleston, SC this past Wednesday mattered to a lot of people that new them...
View ArticleA Closed Mind is a Terrible Thing
Part of what happened is that the gunman who killed 9 very special people in Charleston SC last Wednesday was greeted with warmth and caring, and it was almost enough to change his mind. But...
View ArticleComparing White Privilege and Being Privileged
I read a classic diary on this site today, about White Privilege. I then started to read the comments. One white woman with disabilities commented that she had taken an online test that had rated her...
View ArticleWhy I Am Lukewarm About Hillary's Speech On Racism To The Council Of Mayors
Hillary thinks in sound bites without substance just like this speech. Too bland, too void of suggestions, except for not telling racist jokes.
View ArticleWhy We Need Bernie For President, Hillary For Vice President
I keep getting told that Hillary would never accept the Vice Presidential nomination, because it has no power except what the President allows it to have, someone finally explained to me.I keep getting...
View ArticleWhy we need to call LE killings of blacks "Genocide"
I hate the word "Genocide". It is a horrible concept. It is a far more horrible reality. And if white law enforcement killings of blacks who are no threat to anybody has not quite reached some...
View ArticleWhy the fact that Hillary is much better than a Republican is not good enough
Hillary is much better than any Republican that has declared their candidacy for the Republican nomination for US President. Hillary would not destroy the United States during eight years holding the...
View ArticleRemembering a New York City Jew because Black Lives Matter
Abel Meeropol wrote a song that Billie Holiday made famous, called "Strange Fruit". It was inspired (if we can use that word in so grisly a context) by a picture of a lynching that Meeropol could not...
View ArticleWhen is a "baby" not a baby? In my opinion, when it is a fetus, a zygote, or...
Mostly, I am basing this on what I know about the science of fetal development in mammals. A little has to do with personal observation and my religious beliefs. I am putting this in a diary because...
View ArticleRedistricting Task Force Initiative
Redistricting occurs every ten years following the census, as mandated by the US Constitution. Conventional wisdom holds that the party with the majority in the state legislature and with the Governor...
View ArticleWhy I Support Bernie Sanders
Bernie understands that disability is not a choice. I have physical injuries that have lasted almost ten years already and that will probably last the rest of my life even if I live another thirty or...
View ArticleFor Me, Hillary Is Her Own Worst Enemy
The more I read or listen to what Hillary Rodham Clinton says, the more queasy I feel about HRC as a possible US President. If I do not vote for Hillary in the General Election, it will not be because...
View ArticleHow Can Any Woman Support A Woman Who Actively Supports A Sexual Predator?
Hillary Rodham Clinton supported Bill Clinton when Republicans went after him for sexually abusing a woman who worked for him.I am only three and a half years younger than HRC. I remember what it was...
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