Month: November 2021
Notes on Haiti
The thing about the Haitian migrant ‘crisis’ is that of course White America (and not just White) thinks it’s a great crime and imposition on America that Haitians wash up on our shores and borders in rugged desperation. Indeed, the nerve. They even view it in a ‘Trumpian’ kind ofRead More
There are a lot of reasons to have and keep a job
A few years ago in a critique of American post-modernity I argued that the sense of having or holding a professional trade for self-actualization reasons and purposes is gone and people would just as soon quit teaching, firefighting, policing and even doctoring if they could make enough money flipping housesRead More
Don’t go digging in history unless you really, really……
I’m writing this morning because I couldn’t Youtube info on Brunhilda from Wagner operas. That is a bizarre segue into our topic for today; westerns and western themed dramas. I’m here because of late I have been interested in figures from Native American history. Yes, I’m over 50 and whenRead More
Crime pt 12
Crime, the stain of the Negro and the surface reason white folk claim they don’t want you in their neighborhoods or our children going to their schools in too great a number. And now in the wake of George Floyd and BLM we walked right out and gave White folkRead More
What to do about Crime installment 2 (Installment 1.3 v 1 of why I write such good books)
I’ll begin this essay with a crude story. Most of my readers know that I’m not averse to using other people’s or my own crude stories. This is because sanitized stories often lose their punch and instead of being food for thought it’s like going to a Tapas restaurant withRead More
I got yo draws’ Juanita; And other Post-Modern Christian tales
I often tell people that my experiences in a mainline American Christian denomination were rougher than my experiences selling dope in the streets on the block. This is to argue in an around about way that the thugs I encountered in the church hierarchy were worse in many regards thanRead More