HOW WILL HISTORY RECORD 2020?
“WE CAN CHANGE THE NARRATIVE OF HISTORY BY CHANGING THE NARRATORS.”
DR. WILLIAM J. BARBER II, CO-FOUNDER OF THE POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN
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your protection has expired
I can’t make this up. The first words I saw when I opened my laptop last night to read about the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg were “your protection has expired.” Granted those words referred to my cyberspace security, … Continue reading
Posted in family life, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, politics, racism, Reflections, sexism, Slice of Life, The Way Life Is
Tagged justice ruth bader ginsburg, RBG, supreme court, us constitution
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black women called “Mayor” from sea to shining sea
A world wide pandemic from an attack by an unseen enemy known as Covid-19, increasing public protests across the country led by Black Lives Matter against systemic racism in the criminal justice system and other institutions, police brutality in the … Continue reading
Posted in family life, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, politics, racism, Reflections, sexism, Slice of Life, The Way Life Is
Tagged atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms, black lives matter, chicago mayor lori lightfoot, covid-19 pandemic, dc mayor muriel bowser, deaths of john lewis and rev vivian, gun control, murders of george floyd breonna taylor and rayshard brooks, police brutality, san fran mayor london breed, systemic racism
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breaking news: interview with a Mushy Middler
My fake news interview with a Mushy Middler was first published here in August, 2017, one year after the US presidential election of 2016. With the 2020 election less than two months away, I wondered whether the mythical “mushy middle” … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, politics, racism, Reflections, sexism, Slice of Life, The Way Life Is
Tagged 2016 elections, 2020 elections, mushy middle, silent majority, soft center
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Pride Day at the 2020 US Open!
The theme of this year’s 2020 US Open grand slam tennis tournament is Be Open. “When you keep an Open mind, great things can happen. In the game, and out in the world…Generations of tennis players have been inspired by … Continue reading
this country doesn’t love us back
“There are other cases… of officers who seem to be ‘trigger happy.’ In a number of instances, Negroes have been shot, supposedly in self-defense, under circumstances indicating, at best, unsatisfactory police work…and at worst, a callous willingness to kill.” (Excerpt … Continue reading
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Tagged 1947 report to secure these rights, breonna taylor, covid-19 pandemic, doc rivers, eric garner, freddie gray, george floyd, harry truman, hurricane laura, jacob blake, michael brown, naomi osaka, police brutality, rayshard brooks, samuel dubose, senator kamala harris, tamir rice, terrence sterling, trayvon martin, walter scott, wildfires in california
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families first
No justice, no peace. No Donald, no Mike. Just Joe and Kamala. Four years ago I was overjoyed when the first woman of a major political party was nominated to be President of the United States. From Seneca to Selma … Continue reading
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Tagged baby boomers, Democratic National Convention, dr martin luther king jr, india, jamaica, joe biden, kamala harris, moral arc of universe, selma march to montgomery, seneca falls, shirley chisholm, stonewall, WWII
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you are out of your lane
“There will be a resistance to your ambition. There will be people who say to you, ‘You are out of your lane,’ because they are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984 presidential election, 2016 presidential election, 2020 election, asylum seekers, black lives matter, former vice president joe biden, geraldine ferraro, Hillary Clinton, inflection point, refugees, senator kamala harris, walter mondale
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when sorrows come, they come not single spies
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” (William Shakespeare – Hamlet) While we mourned the passing of Congressman John Lewis last week with the rest of the world via amazing coverage in the media, Pretty and … Continue reading
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Tagged congressman john lewis, coronavirus pandemic, death, grief
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nero fiddled while Rome burned, but who set the fire?
Summer of our Discontent There once was an emperor named Nero Who fiddled and called himself Hero, His people complained, They held Nero to blame, But Nero set fire to their peepholes. **************** As paratrump (who knows who they really … Continue reading
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Tagged covid-19 pandemic, emperor nero fiddled while rome burned, invasion of portland oregon, limerick, summer of our discontent, unidentified federal military in cities
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