Healing Through Truth – Breaking Cognitive Inertia for a Healthier America
In the sweltering heat of July, when temperatures soar, a different kind of heat also intensifies: the heat of social injustice and the cognitive inertia that perpetuates it. Cognitive inertia, the reluctance to change long-held beliefs even when evidence suggests … Continue reading Healing Through Truth – Breaking Cognitive Inertia for a Healthier America
Wanted: Fire Fighters
Fire can be one of the greatest destructive forces known to man. It has the ability to spread rapidly and get out of control. Once out of control it can create irreparable damage and take some time to extinguish. Such … Continue reading Wanted: Fire Fighters
HOT July – Part I
Equal Rights As a backdrop against the July 4th holiday, which many Americans leverage to enjoy celebrating our country’s 1776 Independence from Great Britain, it seems apropos to explore, contrast, and expose the ongoing, overt lack of independence unjustly denied … Continue reading HOT July – Part I
HOT July – Part II
In the early 1900s and all the way up to the late 1960s, African Americans/Blacks had to fight for Fair Employment laws. Even then, the employment that was offered was unequal, with lower wages and fewer benefits, if any, than … Continue reading HOT July – Part II
Curing America’s “Hotter Than July” Cognitive Inertia By Recapturing The Narrative.
“Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the … Continue reading Curing America’s “Hotter Than July” Cognitive Inertia By Recapturing The Narrative.
The Power of Teaching Truth
Growing up, I swallowed the school stories hook, line, and sinker. Thanksgiving was supposedly a lovely feast where Pilgrims and Native Americans held hands and sang “Kumbaya” over a table full of turkey. Christopher Columbus? Oh, he was the fearless … Continue reading The Power of Teaching Truth
Learning from History: “Upholding and Enforcing Unjust Laws Isn’t Moral”
One of the Core Principles of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) islearning from history. This principle states, “History is a tool for effective organizing. Understanding the lessons of history allows us to create a more humane future.” … Continue reading Learning from History: “Upholding and Enforcing Unjust Laws Isn’t Moral”
In Order to Get Practical, We Need Utopian Thinking
“If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to earth.” – Martin Luther King Jr., “MIA Mass Meeting” “My best thinking got me here.” … Continue reading In Order to Get Practical, We Need Utopian Thinking
Yes, there is only one Race, the Human Race, but…
It’s likely that we’ve all heard someone say something like, “We don’t have all these races. There’s only one race… the human race.” While that may, in essence, be true, American values and social norms have established structures that sort … Continue reading Yes, there is only one Race, the Human Race, but…
Three-Fifths 