No to war a Syrian war or whatever…
It looks like President Obama may have dodged the bullet – both literally and figuratively. When you dare someone to cross a line – even a red line for use of chemical weapons – a lot of invisible hands start working on all sides to see who’s gonna crack. Since Russia has a dog in […]
Four Little Girls
Sunday morning, September 15, 1963. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Alabama. The Klu Klux Klan made it unequivocally clear that our children were not going to be spared in the war to maintain white supremacy, that our churches would be targets of unmitigated hate. Everything that we held sacred–our babies, our place of worship–would be […]
What can ordinary citizens expect if…
…black officers can’t expect back up from their white fellow officers? Not much. That’s why we need a civilian review board. But what recourse do African American officers have? Read the racist rant one black police officer found in his workplace mailbox.