Anyone who thinks the conflict between the Democrats in Congress and Trump and the Republicans is just more partisan bickering needs to pay closer attention. It is possible that the future of American democracy—flawed as it might be—is imperiled. At the end of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a Mrs. Powell of Philadelphia asked Benjamin … [Read more…]
This week is a golf Major week in the world of golf. And with Tiger Woods back in form that is a big world. The best players in the world are meeting in Bethpage, Long Island, New York, to compete for the PGA Championship on the famed Bethpage Black public course. Tiger Woods, considered by … [Read more…]
The Montgomery County Dialogue on Race (DOR) was the recipient of the 2019 Fitz Turner Award for Outstanding Contributions in Intergroup Relations by the Virginia Education Association (VEA). The award was presented at the Eleventh Annual Awards Dinner in Richmond in March. It recognized DOR for its efforts to bring about racial change in the … [Read more…]
I am a longtime advocate of reparations for African Americans. However, I think the current push for reparations may be problematic. During the Black Power era in the late 1960s, I was involved in the reparations movement. I was once privileged to accompany Audley Moore (better known as Queen Mother Moore) to a meeting in … [Read more…]
Here are a few of the things we know. We know that “Trump-gate” is worse than Watergate. Richard Nixon’s offenses were leading a break-in of the Democratic Party’s office files to steal information about their campaign, lying about it, and then trying to stop the investigation (obstruction). Donald Trump’s offenses were leading a collaboration with … [Read more…]
I am a lifelong advocate of a national health plan that would provide universal health care, something that all other industrialized countries have. Americans did not seem to want it. Among the many pushbacks I would receive through the years is, “The [inept] United States government cannot handle anything as large as a national health … [Read more…]
The charter school movement—which takes money from public schools for profit—has gotten so strong it has caused Trump’s base to permit Muslim owned schools to multiply. Thus the Gulen school movement, named after a Turkish Islamic preacher who has lived in the United States since 1999 has spread to Alabama—to my home county. See the … [Read more…]
Domestic terrorists may have been busy recently. Two kinds of institutions that have trained, sustained, and propelled African Americans appear to have been the victims of arson in recent days. Within ten days, three black churches in one Louisiana parish burned. Each was over 100 years old. The first was St. Mary Baptist Church in … [Read more…]
In a recent column, the noted economist Paul Krugman asked why is it that Republicans have “a deep, unreasoning hatred of the idea that government policy may help some people get health care.” I think the answer is staring us in the face. Many conservatives and probably all Right-Wingers oppose public support for the public—in … [Read more…]
I keep having the same reaction to the Mueller/Barr Report. I feel trapped in an old comedic routine: “Who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?” We know that Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign. We know that through the internet they conducted information warfare against the United States, and we … [Read more…]