Breakfast at Quincy’s
“A warm –up?” “No,” the petite bronze-skinned beauty replies. She pulls her mouth downward and to the left into a slight disapproving frown. Drew notices but doesn’t say anything. He … Read More
Month: June 2020
Indianapolis and its Feeble Attempts at Police Reform
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”The Life of Reason~ George Santayana (1905) Once again, Indianapolis and its police department have come to a fork in … Read More
Systemic racism.
It is a term we have heard a lot since the killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers last month. But what does the term actually mean in … Read More
In the 1950’s when I was a youngster in NYC….
In the 1950s when I was a youngster in NYC, I looked forward to the summers on my grandmother’s farm in very rural South Carolina. Before leaving the City, my mother … Read More
American wages stagnant: What is to be done?
‘In a recent article Robert Reich pointed out that American wages have stagnant for over 40 years. Not answered is why the alarm bells were not sounded.’ The alarm bells … Read More
POLICE BRUTALITY… LAW ENFORCEMENT’S ABUSE OF BLACK BODIES THE COMMUNITIES RESPONSE AND SOLUTION
Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Louisville, Georgia…. In every state in the United States and certainly in every major urban center within the nation; police brutality against black people has been … Read More
The Afro-American Patrolman’s League
Over fifty years ago in Chicago, I founded the Afro-American Patrolman’s League. Black policemen were routinely ridiculed and called Uncle Toms, and they were primarily thought to be the Praetorian … Read More