We usually think of sheep more as followers than leaders, but in a flock one sheep must lead the way. Long ago, it was common practice for shepherds to hang a bell around the neck of one sheep in their flock, thereby designating it the lead sheep. This animal was…

(and White People, Too) — I’ve already written a couple of essays now regarding the acronyms POC and BIPOC, their relationships to other terms such as inclusion, inclusivity and diversity, and why I believe each of these terms actually tend to benefit the ideology of white supremacism and Racism rather than not. There is so…

On May 21, 2022, I wrote this question and a brief commentary on Facebook: “Here’s what I want to know. When did “progressive” become a dirty word? When you understand that “ive” is a suffix meaning “doing or intending to do something specified,” and the root word, “progress,” then you…

We knew for months that the Supreme Court as constituted in 2022 was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the judicial ruling that essentially gave agency to women to control whether they gave birth. Now, in an unprecedented leak from directly inside of the halls of the Supreme Court, a…

There is certainly one thing everyone can agree upon with regard to the Oscars and that is there will always be a memorable moment, something people remember for years to come. …

What did DeSantis do? Exactly what white supremacists do whenever they want to claim their Racist practices aren’t just that: they quote part of the only MLK speech they want the world to think exists. — Ron DeSantis did not inspire this essay because I wrote it back it 2019 for my website, but he certainly drove home the discussion and context of the essay so that it is more relevant today than it was back when I originally wrote it. DeSantis is vying for the…

What is actually at stake? Abortion? Contraception? A woman’s right to choose? Is this a precursor to the dissolution of more rights women enjoy today? I am, as I would imagine some women in America are today, wrestling with the idea that the fundamental right of a woman to an abortion may end by the summer of 2022. Yet, I am ambivalent about the motivations of the people in the fight. My ambivalence is not…

It can be stated unequivocally the DOJ continues to run in the opposite direction from its historical trend today. We are now entering the rabbit hole. — The irony of the history of this country is that it screams its desire to be known even as there are millions of white people who would rather die to ensure the fallacy of white supremacy is sustained; literally willing to take up arms and die as they did when…

It only takes one Black person they have determined to be an acceptable voice to agree, and justification is secured. — When Condoleezza Rice defended what she determined to be the right of white people to admonish any thought of guilt they or their children should experience and express regarding any association or complicity in the plight of Black people and their oppression in American history, her verbal cosignatory agreement was…