With troubled heart, my friend Jocelyn Winfrey left this world a few days ago. I met Jocelyn over a decade ago, she was tall, loud, and quite pugnacious and quarrelsome in her body language and tone. Some folks found this distasteful both at work and in the community. She was talked about at work because […]
Month: June 2016
Hello readers, I have been traveling for a while and have been unable to post. I will resume in a day or two. Be well…
50 killed described as The Deadliest Mass Shooting in U.S. History is not true! Come with me as we ride back in time. East St. Louis Massacre of 1917 The name refers to a race riot that occurred in the industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois, over July 2-3, 1917. It is […]
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The Oxford English Dictionary‘s defines the word racism as Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior: a programme to combat racism. A man named Richard Henry Pratt in 1902 was railing against the evils of racial segregation. I would like to […]