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December 22nd, 2014 - 5:21 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges

BLACK AMERICA: Who chooses the schools?

This bothers me a lot more than the color of the skin in a police officer’s uniform.  Too often I hear well-meaning lace curtain liberals, white and black, telling black parents what is best for their kids. Education is not a way out of the current occupation of black America, its is the only[...]

December 18th, 2014 - 4:15 am § in America, Politics, Religion

How White Men Count Coup. Part 2.

The Swifts Find Wives A few months ago I related the odd story of Will and Tom Swift, twin brothers greatly divided by the effects of their father’s death. Will became “The Great Avenger,” determined to kill as many Indians as he could in revenge for the death of father Swift at the hands of [...]

December 12th, 2014 - 12:14 am § in America, Jews

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

Imagine this —- A poor Jewish student is shot by a policemen during a demonstration in the Jewish community of the former East Germany. 70 years after the end of WWII the community is again largely Jewish and poor. Most of the residents lived as hidden Jews under the Stasi but were well known [...]

December 9th, 2014 - 5:20 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene

Time for real progress

What some would consider progress over the last 60 years since the Montgomery Bus Boycotts is really just widespread tokenism. Progress for a few is not progress at all unless we are looking at it from an individualistic-assimilationist point of view.  This view focuses on the success of a few whil[...]

November 22nd, 2014 - 10:01 am § in America

Where Americans Came From

First Native Americans came from Siberia What would Jefferson think? The third President had a “thing” about Native Americans.   Like Rousseau he believed in the noble savage.  Some feel that our constitution was even derived from Cherokee/Iroquois traditions of governance by the peop[...]

November 18th, 2014 - 3:05 am § in America, Schools & Colleges

Harvard and UNC Sued For Racial Prejudice in Admissions

 Can any sane person believe that when the President’s daughters  matriculate at Harvard, Stanford or even the lowly University of Chicago, these privileged girls  will be addressing  a need those schools have for greater diversity? The Project on Fair Representation*, an Alexandria, Virgi[...]

November 16th, 2014 - 4:08 am § in America, The Ave Scene

Seahawks Logo Found in Maine Museum!

Mask that likely inspired the Seahawks logo discovered in Maine museum  Shortly after publishing the blog post, “Searching for what inspired the Seattle Seahawks logo,” the Burke Museum at UW was contacted by the Director of the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine. She informed us that [...]

November 13th, 2014 - 1:18 pm § in Misc.

RADICAL REPUBLICANS: Huckabee and God

Sitting watching TV, the phone rang. Comcast showed a number someplace in Florida. I answered the phone.  A new friend from Florida wanted to know whether I believe that we should have national prayer day. This friend told me that national prayer day was being threatened by militant atheists. Whil[...]

November 5th, 2014 - 8:45 am § in Religion

Flying With Jesus By Our Airmen’s Sides

A member of the US Airforce was told that he could not reenlist unless he added phrase “so help me God” to his contract.  The airman was “told by his superiors that he must swear to God or leave the Air Force,” according to a complaint filed by the American Humanist Assoc[...]

November 3rd, 2014 - 4:21 am § in Hypocrisy, Religion, Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene

The Hypocrisy in The Terms “White” and “People of Color”

I am offended by the terms “people of color” and “white.” Last spring Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard ignited a controversy about campus diversity with his use of the word “white.”  Conservatives picked on Dr. Shepard, saying  “heR[...]