My Fellow White People, We Need to Talk
Valerie Castile, mother of Philando Castile Following is an article by FogCityJohn. I have posted it because I absolutely agree. I remember reading this quote by James Baldwin in 1965 […]
Category Archives: Civil Rights
Algebra, Civil Rights, Immigrants: Why Sending Them Home Won’t Solve the Job Crisis
From the book jacket of Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights: “Bob Moses went to Mississippi in 1961, a young man, drawn by the sit-ins. By 1964, his work […]
TRUMP PROMISES FOR THE FIRST 100 DAYS
On the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC: […]
Meryl Streep Said it Best
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said. You and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments […]
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND SLAVERY – YES, SLAVERY
Sometimes I want to scream and this is one of them. How many of you want to get rid of the Electoral College because it trumps (pun not deliberate) the […]
The Glass Ceiling Holds
I think it is a good time to do a quick review of women’s history as it relates to the right to vote. Modern women/girls have the freedom to come […]
The Census Uses ‘Mexican’ as a Race (April 1, 1930)
As far back as the 19th century, when what had been part of Mexico became part of the U.S., people of Mexican heritage had been considered “white” according […]
Tuskegee Airmen Return Home
Our nation did not want black pilots to go to war and they didn’t want to see black pilots come from war even if they had won many awards.
And, FDR was my hero
While on the Solano Community College Civil Rights Travel Course we went to Moton Field, one of the two places black pilots were trained to fly. It is just outside […]
Mississippi Voting: you’ve got to be kidding!
I just came back from a Civil Rights Travel Course sponsored by Solano Community College. I’ll be sharing some of the things I learned. Some of them make no […]
