Back in the days when I was a teenager in high school, there were frequent interviews in magazines with Europeans expressing their reluctance to visit the United States, which they perceived as the wild west with too many guns and too many shootings. Compared to Europe, the United States was and is the wild west. … [Read more…]
This short article may be of interest only to golfers, especially those who saw Tiger play in the PGA Championship last week. In February of 2021, Tiger Woods totaled his car and mangled his right leg, with many doubting that he would ever be able to play golf at a professional level again. But, surprisingly, … [Read more…]
Now it is out in the open, but the media and other commentators are trying to downplay it. White supremacy was on full display in Buffalo last Sunday when this 18-year-old White terrorist took a gun meant for killing people and did just that. But he was intentionally killing Black people to incite a war … [Read more…]
Many issues are apparent in the U.S Supreme Court’s draft opinion to overturn Roe v Wade. Here I will address two: the context for children of the presumed action by the Court and a reminder of the Court’s predominant history. According to the draft opinion—and as expected—the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, … [Read more…]
The confessions of organizations about their roles in slavery continue, and they may be intensifying. Every year one or two individual organizations commit this confession. But I wonder if these individual confessions are not unlike some religious confessions at the altar, which ask for forgiveness of personal sins but do nothing about societal sins like … [Read more…]