Stop playing
Playing games with people’s lives St. Louis American, September 25, 2014 Recently at a press conference, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked why an African-American woman had not been assigned to his advisory team to deal with the fallout from the Ray Rice domestic violence situation. While Goodell did a public relations dance around the […]
Listen to the young people
From The Way I See It, this week’s St. Louis American I always feel compelled to give a cautionary note to people who say that children are so resilient that they can roll with situations that adversely affect them. This is definitely an outmoded myth that is no longer supported by data or the experiences […]
Breaking the Shackles
Everywhere around the whole, people are throwing off the shackles of oppression–or at least putting up a good fight. Tomorrow the people of Scotland will vote for their independence. This historic vote seems to be split along class and age lines, with poorer and younger people favoring independence. Just in time for the vote was the […]