…you brought me in this world Happy Ancestral Birthday, Mom! As I celebrate your 95th year—only 68 on this side of the plane, way too short—it’s hard to say I miss you because, although you’re…
Month: October 2025
What Are You Going to Do After America?
The storm of this administration is getting stronger faster than anyone could have imagined. Well, I guess you ignored the forecast—Project 2025 wasn’t a whisper, it was a warning siren. They blew it in your…
When Red and Blue Go to War
I. The First Civil War: A Lesson in Division The first Civil War didn’t begin with a grand declaration or a congressional vote. It began with a shot. In 1861, there was only one United…
45th Reunion
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Yesterday was homecoming and my 45th high school class reunion. The class of ’80, the first desegregated class to matriculate through the Evanston Public School District. When we began our educational journey as five- and…
Tulsa, MOVE, and Now: America’s Unbroken Pattern
In Tulsa, 1921, the cover story was “an uprising.” White mobs, backed by police, burned down Greenwood and dropped fire from the sky. The truth never had to be proven; the accusation was enough to…
Happy Ninety-Ninth
No paper trail.No midwife’s mark.No certificate to prove the day. Just Marlboro County fields,tobacco barns breathing their smoke,and the cry of the first of twelve —a Black child under Jim Crow skies. If he went…
From DEI to W.E.I.: Quantico Wasn’t a Briefing — It Was a Whiteness War Sermon
From DEI to W.E.I.: Quantico Wasn’t a Briefing — It Was a Whiteness War Sermon Pete Hegseth just told the entire U.S. military that you’re fat, ugly, stupid, weak, and lazy — and that the…