That Area Between Black and White
We joke about Speaker Pelosi being the highest level official in the USA while the higher level sleazes of the GOP are out of the country at once. “Quick, throw their stuff out on the lawn and change the locks!” we jest, but around us in news in the United States of America are decidedly …
Following the American president’s shameful remarks about immigrants not being humans, about them being animals, I’m left goggling as Americans justify his vile statement by explaining what (they think) he really meant. “He meant the gang members,” they say, as if that makes it okay. Besides, we heard what Trump said. He made himself crystal …
We are poisoning ourselves, and we have been for as long as I can remember. It’s slow, so slow we don’t really notice until someone points out how ugly and selfish the the toxin has made us, how it’s seeped into our minds and souls, claiming our compassion and empathy, our humanity. I’m not talking …
Writing is fun for me. I know it’s strange, but writing has gotten me through some rough times. It helps me organize my thoughts as I work through a problem. It helps me release stress or frustration, to let it go. Between writing, reading, and music, sometimes I think that, given time, I could solve …
Tell your boys, “Don’t rape.” Wait, that can’t be right. I started this whole line of thinking awhile back. Well, it’s been a vein in a lot of my writing as I struggle to unlearn much of my upbringing as a woman in the United States. For the sake of getting to a point rather quickly, …
I hate that all this Bizarro World shit is becoming “normal.” I hate that the lessons I was taught aren’t common sense anymore. What happened to “question everything” and “check facts?” What happened to scientific theory and civics and digging for truth? What happened to being able to trust the news, for the most part? …
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 …
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 …