Over in the comments thread and in personal emails (to me and my attorney) My brother in law William Quick , an explant to Charleston, is calling me demented for my posts about South Carolina and the dreadful murders at the AME church. I responded in the comment thread, but think the response should[...]
Posts Tagged ‘William Quick’
June 8th, 2015 - 2:29 pm § in Misc.
UPDATE: South Carolina cop indicted in death of black man shot in back
This an update to a story on TA about North Charleston, a town North of Charleston, SC. This town has been run for two decades one (white man) and has a town government that is all white. The Mayor has taken great credit for taking action is firing the cop. This is also the town […][...]
June 5th, 2015 - 5:49 pm § in America
Buchenwald 73: Anniversary of my father’s death
Despite my brother Hugh and sister Stephanies’s sad efforts to destroy the collection of images my father made in Buchenwald and my brother in law’s efforts to demean my Dad’s memory by claiming he did not make the pictures, I have (poor) copies made of the images taken by my D[...]
May 10th, 2015 - 10:16 pm § in America
Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina
Here we go again. Imagine being African American today in Charleston where my brother-in-law and sister live. My sister is Jewish, I wonder if she ever thinks how it would be to live there if the crossed bars were instead a twisted cross? South Carolina celebrates many of the same legal hol[...]
April 28th, 2015 - 3:04 pm § in America
Could it be that racism on the web is causing black folks to die?
South Carolina Wins Again! Where do Google searches for the word “nigger” come from? (With apologies but, the term Google studied was the full, spelled out obscenity, AKA the “N word” if one is being politically correct. Where do America’s most racist people live?�[...]
April 15th, 2015 - 1:55 am § in Misc.
Why is South Carolina Still Obsessed with Obama: The Poem “NIGGERS IN THE WHITE HO– USE”
A few evenings ago I watched a TV news program with a white politician defending the right of southerners to have confederate flags on their license plates. After all, the man said, it is time for reconciliation … this long after slavery every Southerner, black and white, should take pri[...]
April 12th, 2015 - 1:41 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 71: Why 71?
It is already April 12 today in Germany. I am writing this on the 11th of April in Seattle, but it is now April 12 in Germany. This 12th of April is 70 years after General Patten’s ceremonial entry into Buchenwald. The day is being celebrated .. if that term is acceptable .. by some of t[...]
SOUTH CAROLINA: The Last Confederate Funeral
It is amazing to me, never having lived in the South, how the Confederacy has become so honored that Jews like my sister can live there while a Black girl can be given an honor in the name of a civil war hero. I hope nothing of this sort ever happens in Germany! I have […][...]