Last year was not good for race relations in the US. To be honest there really hasn’t been a “good year” but there have been non-bad years 2014 though was not one of them. A lot of people on my…
Tag: racism
Second Class
I’ve been trying to formulate an honest and measured opinion about the latest trend of unarmed black men being killed by the police. I’ve tried to distance myself and tried to put myself in the position of the police who…
Becoming Human
It almost seems like many people want to think that Abe Lincoln freed the slaves and the next weekend Martin Luther King was marching on Washington.
Bobby Jindal, Miley Cyrus, and getting older
So I’ve been away for a while. Been a little busy, getting married, setting up a new apartment. As a result I really haven’t had the unadulterated stretches of time I really need to put up some posts. I’ve got…
Surprise: It Is Still Really Good To Be A Middle Age White Male
Lost in much of the talk about our failing economy is the real disparity of income that has existed along racial lines. This is mostly because this information is nothing new. For as long as we have been keeping data…
Institutional inequality
It is very difficult for some people to wrap their head around the notion that America is still for many Americans unjust. They would like to believe that inequality is a thing of the past. When someone tries to say…
PSA: Dear White America Racism Still Exists
One of the problems with writing a blog like this is that you end up covering the same topics over and over again. So there must be some effort on my part to make sure when I do, I at…
Racist semantics or why the brown people just don’t get it!
I’ve mentioned before how many Americans believe the election of Barack Obama as president of the US should mark the end of racism in America. This notion generally comes up when talking to republicans defending the tea party movement as…
Rush learns a new word and Fizzy economics
Recently there has been some criticism of Michelle Obama, for taking a vacation in Spain. The argument goes that it is tone deaf for the first lady to spend all that money some of it tax payer money on a…
Post scripts 5-28-2010
Post scripts: From time to time I realize I have more to say on a topic I’ve written about, however I don’t feel a full essay forthcoming. In those instances I turn to the PS. Rand Paul and the Cliff…