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Physics, elections, and the President’s brain
File under “Smoke from the dome” Trump is experiencing an unprecedented perfect storm of conflicting vectors. Vector 1. Trump’s need to be reelected. Vector 2. Trump’s need to have the economy help him ride Vector 1. Vector 3. The increasingly … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 elections, coronavirus, covid-19, donald trump, trumpland
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A reminder that police violence is a danger to communities’ mental health. And research supports that claim.
Premature mortality, mental trauma, depression, anxiety … Warning: embedded videos contain graphic violence. What if your innocent and non-threatening family member or neighbor was attacked by a police dog — like then-52-year old Desiree Collins was when she was taking … Continue reading
Carry this thought with the George Floyd justice protests: income inequality is the highest in a half-century
The numbers suggest people demand change — regardless of what the stock market says. People need to connect relevant reasons to protest with their personal lives so they can hit the streets with conviction. In many cases, these reasons combine … Continue reading
Roger Williams scores again with his Wednesday Wind Down Zone Soul Music podcast — May 27
Another example of my weirdness: I Shazam songs I already know. My guess is that I have trust issues with the app and want to catch it in a lie. Not sure. An Aha-you-busted moment came last night when Soul … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Tagged classic soul, corinne bailey rae, modern soul, Music, nicolas bearde, podcast, roger williams, soul music, starpoint radio
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‘You ain’t Black’ Part 3: how Biden can fix the mess he’s made
It’s time for the Presidential hopeful to share and discuss his platform on race — and understand his place in the eyes of the Black electorate. Plus, a rare endorsement from this blog. About four years ago, but without a … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Race, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged black media, charlamagne tha god, joe biden, Race, racial justice, Racism, the breakfast club
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Coronavirus: more proof Black and poor communities are designed for racist death (and politicians don’t care enough)
I’ll start by heading off the near-inevitable “What about White people” pushback whenever someone else mentions a unique and more intense version of hell that Black and Brown folks are experiencing. Sure — coronavirus doesn’t ask for skin color when … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Race, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid-19, pandemic, Race, Racism
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Why we will regret Julian Assange’s arrest — and why we’ll have more regrets after he’s convicted
Many of you saw your long-term wishes granted: the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London. Payback for Assange’s 2016 slow-motion DNC and Hillary hit, some of you will say. (Oh, and read this, and this. I can’t blame … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 elections, civil liberties, dnc, julian assange, wikileaks
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Bitter gumbo: drunken ultra-White male privilege and the political party that didn’t give a damn in 2014
At this point, it would be a bit cliché for me to say “What if me and my Black azz showed up to the job interview amidst word that I drank myself into unconsciousness when I wasn’t trying to rape … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2018, brett kavanaugh, donald trump, midterm elections, neil gorsuch, supreme court, trumpland
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Happy Wrecka Stow Day — this post is probably not what you think
About the title of this piece — we’ll deal with that in a moment. I own records — and still buy them — but I don’t celebrate Record Store Day. Record stores — particularly when taking into account what they’ve … Continue reading
Remembering Mabel Williams
So that’s when the police came up and they jumped out of the car. And they were saying they were going to take him to jail. And I said, “Do you have a warrant?” And they said — they backed … Continue reading
