That Area Between Black and White
People in Houston struggle to keep their heads above water, literally. We’ve been terrible neighbors lately and still Mexico and Canada offer help to our victims of the Houston area hurricane flooding. We see greed and terribly un-Christian behavior from some in the area while others – Christians, Muslims, immigrants, etc. – step up and …
If you ask a (white) person how they got where they are today they will probably tell you they worked hard, studied hard, and they have earned their place. They might even be able to point out some good luck, being at the right place at the right time. Generally, though, we recognize that a …
With the rest of the United States, I wait and hope for a sign. It is overcast in Milwaukee so I probably won’t see it. I don’t have glasses for it anyway. It’s supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but I didn’t bother to find out until too late that I am in the wrong …
Martin Luther King, Jr. is not with us anymore, but he is all around us in the way we think and feel about each other and about what makes a good leader, the rights we enjoy, and even in the way we choose to march. Dr. King was known for nonviolent civil rights demonstrations. He …
This past weekend was one long nightmare alt-reality episode of Hate Speech with the host conspicuously absent. We kicked off the weekend with torch-wielding nazis marching onto University of Virginia grounds to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Of course, there was violence, but of course the police handled it the …
Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes we even realize as we are doing it that it’s a mistake we’re probably going to regret later. The problem isn’t making the mistakes. I mean, that can be bad, but what is really important is how we handle it once we have erred. We need to own it, accept our …
My boyfriend and I love movies, and there have been some truly special ones lately. We both particularly love science fiction (I’m more Star Wars, and he’s more Star Trek, though we love both) and action (I’m still squeeing over “Atomic Blonde” which we also both loved), but we enjoy others including interesting stories and …
For a country that brags about how strong and great we are we sure are a bunch of weenies. We’ve fought in wars, members of our military are still dying overseas and most of us don’t even really know why. We’ve gotten through epidemics. None of us remember it now, but we’ve fought a civil …
“As to the leaking, I think it really is a disservice to the president this happened. Can you imagine being President of the United States having a conversation with a foreign leader and that conversation being divulged to the media? It’s not fair to President Trump.” – Lindsey Graham of SC First, let’s get this …
Included in all the frighteningly divisive rhetoric lately in the news/politics/social media, I’ve noticed a strange dichotomy about sex. We’re supposed to identify as “us” against the “other,” divided by skin color, income, religion, nationality, etc. but for some reason (I suspect religion as the root, honestly) we’re also supposed to be divided along strict …