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From time to time, I publish interesting or hateful mail I receive from readers. Continue reading Answering Reader Mail: Richard & Civil War Literacy | Blog#42
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Jim Webb is right about #SouthernWhiteCulture | #ConfederateFlag on Blog#42
I was born and raised in the tri-state area that is Washington, D.C. Continue reading Jim Webb is right about #SouthernWhiteCulture | #ConfederateFlag on Blog#42
Some thoughts on @NewBlackMan and @DrJamesPeterson: The Role of Black Intellectuals | #BlackCultureMatters on Blog#42
Dear Professors Neal and Peterson,
I write to you today because as I gave your talk on the role of the Black public intellectual a second listen in preparation for an entirely different essay, my seventeen year old daughter left her computer to sit near me and listen. While she may at times listen from her desk while engaged in some activity, Girly never leaves her computer to listen to anything I might be playing. But she did, and I thought I would tell you why. Continue reading Some thoughts on @NewBlackMan and @DrJamesPeterson: The Role of Black Intellectuals | #BlackCultureMatters on Blog#42
Ferguson, Missouri’s Complicated History of Poverty and Racial Tension | The New Republic
You Can’t Understand Ferguson Without First Understanding These Three Things – Reflections from a former state senator from St. Louis
By Jeffrey Smith
You can’t really understand Ferguson—the now-famous St. Louis suburb with a long history of white people sometimes maliciously, sometimes not, imposing their will on black people’s lives—unless you understand Kinloch. Continue reading Ferguson, Missouri’s Complicated History of Poverty and Racial Tension | The New Republic