♫ Precious And Few ♫ I was loving some of the choices on Clive’s Tuesday Tunes post and considered playing one of those, but … that didn’t seem quite fair, for Clive did all the work! So, you should really pop over to his place and check it out! So then, I went in search […]
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Good People Doing Good Things — Dr. Ala Stanford Today I have only one ‘good people’ for you, but she is … WOW! She is doing far more than her share to keep the Black community in Philly healthy and not for a fee! Earlier this week, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced that 70% of […]
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Daryl Davis Is Still Going Strong In 2017, Keith and I both wrote about a man named Daryl Davis, a Black man who is doing more than his share to help white supremacists stop being white supremacists, one at a time. If you’re interested, here are links to Keith’s post and mine. Last weekend, Pulitzer […]
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The Demagogues Are Having a Field Day Our friend Annie has touched on a number of hot topics today, from General Milley’s response to the little wuss, Matt Gaetz, to the fools over at Fox News, to the Big Lie, to voter suppression efforts by Republicans! Her post is well worth the read, and she […]
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Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro is a much needed lesson in our history I did not plan on an extra post today (actually, I rarely plan them, they just happen) but when I read Keith’s post, it was far too valuable not to share. He makes some points in this post that we ALL need […]
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Understanding Our Present — CRT: Part II In Part I, I provided a bit of the history of racism in the U.S., how it started and how it has expanded and morphed through the centuries. Today, I want to talk a bit more at length about Critical Race Theory, the facts vs the rhetoric we’ve […]
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Understanding Our Past — CRT: Part I Okay, folks … it seems that there is much confusion surrounding the concept of Critical Race Theory or CRT. The confusion is twofold: genuine confusion by people who truly do not understand the theory, and fake outrage by racists and Republicans (largely one and the same) who are […]
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♫ Hello Goodbye ♫ Given that I have played a large number of Beatles songs since starting these music posts back in 2018, I was really surprised to find one that I like and hadn’t played! An added bonus, the song went to #1 in Canada, the UK, the U.S., and almost every other country […]
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No Buckhead, you’re not a special case One of the topics I cover frequently is that of the gun culture in the U.S. Here, guns outnumber people and our society seems to have largely become inured to the daily gun violence and death. Outside the U.S., our gun culture is viewed with horror and […]
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♫ Baby Come Back ♫ To the best of my recollection … and granted, that is faulty these days … I have never played a song by this group, Player, before here on my music posts. Released in late 1977 as the lead single from their 1977 self-titled debut album, this was the breakthrough single […]
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