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Category: Election Night

  • Open letter to Mike Braun:

    How can a U.S. Senator Appear to Favor Fascism Over Democracy?  It’s a funny word really.  I’d heard the word from time to time but never explored what it meant nor from whence it came.  Mussolini and Hitler were the infamous fascists.  The word would reappear at odd times on TV or newspaper articles with…

  • Disappointed, Yes; Downcast, No!

    Disappointed?   The results of the election are not in.  States are still counting ballots.  The demonstrated disposition of the electorate is clear.  The frustrations and anxiety of black and brown people around police brutality, race relations, and inequity across the country is insignificant.  The sentiment that the economic turnaround can be achieved in the…

  • the warmest night of November

     Editor’s note:  I wrote this on the night that Barack Obama became the first African-American president.  I along with countless others, wept at the promise of the degradation of racism in America. The promise, somewhat tarnished and sullied even by the boundless harassment of the man seated in the nation’s highest office, remains still.  We…