Darren Wilson & the Status Quo
The Way I See It Published in St. Louis American, Nov. 20, 2014 In the 100-plus days since Mike Brown was gunned down by Darren Wilson, we have seen incredible incompetence and intractable racist behavior by the white power structure in the St. Louis metropolitan region. Every week since August 9 there have been […]
The Rink Rebooted
At a time when racial tensions fill the St. Louis air, G. Whiz cut the air with a light-hearted but serious documentary on the history St. Louis skating. Local skaters and rollers convened at the Missouri History Museum to screen the sequel to The Rink, The Rink Rebooted. A few of the St. Louis skate legends were in […]
Bracing for Hurricane McCulloch
The Way I See It Published in St. Louis American, November 6, 2014 Recently I ran across a 1988 letter from St. Louis Police Chief Robert Scheetz to an African-American clergy. It acknowledged a meeting with a group (of which I’m sure I was a part) around police-community issues and cited a number of documents the […]