Imagine my joy, relief, gratitude and wide-eyed wonder when, in 1994, as a redneck queer from dirt road Mississippi, I finally escaped the redneck iron curtain and immigrated to the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco. I centralized command of … Continue reading What Dreams May Come: Autumn of ’94
“The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power – and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live. Rather, the white man … Continue reading Inspired by James Baldwin, Here are Twelve Steps for White America In A Nutshell
In the words of the former Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, ‘We Cannot Be Afraid Of The Truth.’ His words were from a 2017 speech decrying monuments that glorified the confederacy – relics of a fractured nation, (The Broken … Continue reading Broken Toys In The Attic, and Forever Battles of Yesterday’s War.
This fall as I watch the leaves from the large oak tree outside of my window turn and drop onto our deck, I anticipate the array of beautiful colors that are soon to come in the landscape across the water … Continue reading True Colors
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