That Area Between Black and White
Right back where I was. I’m standing on the path, standing mostly still, standing firm. There is no path in front of me; it abruptly ends at what the Patriarchy calls a “big, beautiful wall.” Their hungry eyes gleam with malice and greed as they grin and slowly, intentionally mouth the words “big. beautiful. wall.” …
That figure we’ve been insisting members of the regime back up? The “4000 people from terrorist list stopped” figure coming from the White House? It’s actually six. Six people. So. . . they rounded up? And how about that statement from Sarah Sanders this weekend, “We know that roughly, nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists …
It’s funny how images from the television can stick with us. Since I was little, I’ve imagined all of us as a group of pretty, smiling people holding hands and walking side-by-side toward a common goal. I thought it was a Coke commercial, but I can’t find the ad. Regardless of the origin, the image …
For the past couple of weeks, the key word in the news is “ripped.” Children are being “ripped” from their parent’s arms. Good people need help, and we’re being horrible to them. The emotions the verbiage brings up, that it intends to get across, works up until every single post and reporter uses the same …
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 …
I will never forget November 1989 and the joy of seeing the Berlin Wall come down in a Germany that, outside of history books, had always been two countries in my lifetime. Since 1961, when the wall went up overnight with no warning, families had been divided. You were on the side you were on …
If 45 needs to build a border wall so he can have yet another ugly structure to slap his name on, then he can pay for it himself. He’s convinced himself that he’s a great business man and master of the art of making the deal; he can make a deal with Mexico for them …
Today I am reminded of a little kid who wants to be a fireman so the local fire station arranges for him to come in for the afternoon and be an honorary fireman. Pictures are taken of him sliding down the pole, sitting behind the the wheel of the pumper wearing a real firefighter’s hat, …
I’m slow. I just figured out at least part of why many people are so passionate about this election. It’s not that we’re just really seeing light at the end of the tunnel after the 2007 recession and that we are finally feeling like now maybe we won’t have to be in perpetual wars on …
“When any barrier falls in America, it clears the way for everyone.” -Hillary Rodham Clinton, 28 July 2016