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: The Civil Rights Movement
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 […]
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 […]
What Do Pete Seeger and Donald Trump have in Common: Deportation
My bonsai instructor Hiro Matsuda handed me an article from the Rafu Shimpo Newspaper at class today. He knows about my commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. This article was […]
A Wrong is Righted in South Carolina
• COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A judge has tossed out the convictions of nine South Carolina black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter during the height of the civil […]
Is It Starting Over Again?
In 1965 I worked with several local black workers in Pineville, SC. The events at Emanuel AME church upset me. However, it took this message from one of those workers […]
Confederate Parades
Ah, it didn’t take long for the Confederate parades to begin. Please don’t watch if you are offended by obscene language. I remember smaller parades in front of my house […]
