Watching the Nightly News, April 15, 2022 “Ashley, this portends to be the worst crimes, humans against humans, since World War Two.” “Yes, Murgatroyd, I can’t remember seeing anything so heart breaking…” Every elementary school child knows that since the ignominious defeat of the United States at the hands of…

White Supremacy and Male Supremacy at Odds with Each Other? The United States emerged from World War Two as the victor. And who better to carry on the banner of the white supremacist system than a country which was founded on 300 years of chattel slavery, and on the annihilation…

Journal Entry, February 11, 2022 This journal entry examines the February 11 spiritual exercise from the Narcotics Anonymous meditation book Just for Today. A curse into a blessing “We have become very grateful in the course of our recovery…. We have a disease, but we do recover.” Basic Text, p…

Journal Entry, February 8, 2022 Two days ago, at midnight, my 14-year-old granddaughter, Kamara, stepped to me with her latest pronouncement (these she makes routinely at this time of night, 1a, 2a and so on): “Papi, this girl is interested in me, but she has a body on her…” I…

“America has always suffered acts of political violence — the terrorism of the Klan; the 1921 massacre of the Black community in Tulsa; the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Democracy has never been a settled, fully stable condition for all Americans, and yet the Trump era is distinguished by…

Journal Entry, January 1, 2022 Behind every dark cloud, There’s a silver lining, And after each rainstorm, There’s a bright new star. I woke up this morning with the music in my ears and the idea in my head that we would get together, the five of us, and reminisce…

Jan 12, 2017·2 min read Dear Friends, We were talking about the song, Moon River, the other day. I sang it in my meditation group, and we were talking about what it means: The singer and the river have a friendship. The singer loves the river because it is beautiful…

Response to Ana Coughlin’s “Christopher Scarver: The Man Who Killed Jeffery Dahmer” (https://anacoughlin.medium.com/christopher-scarver-the-man-who-killed-jeffery-dahmer-2d00f50a92e2) Dear Ana Coughlin, I’ve been living in the midst of White Americans my entire life. And at once I’m amazed that I need to ask such questions as: “Why did you write this article?,” or “What point…

The following analysis was conducted on Harvard professor Robert Harro’s “Cycle of Oppression” (https://depts.washington.edu/geograph/diversity/HarroCofS.pdf) in response to the writing prompt from a college English class. Michelle Winbush We have been asked to reflect on Harvard sociology professor, Robert Harro’s presentation of what he calls “the cycle of socialization.” Presented to…