controversies
It seems every time one racially-charged incident ends, a gender or religious controversy takes its place; Ruminate on the issues dividing our nation and world.
The First Demand for Slave Reparations
A Few Words Before: This is written for those who argue against reparations for slavery on the grounds that slavery happened oh so very — too — long ago to be a rational idea; for those who contend that no living black people were slaves; who argue that no living white people were slave owners; for those who go on and on about the fact that "Africans old their own people" into slavery; and for people who insist, therefore, that the time to ask for slavery reparations has long since passed. And, anyway, why didn’t the ex-slaves themselves demand reparations/compensation?
By HERBERT DYER7 years ago in The Swamp
Liquor Stores Remain Open In Some States As "Essential Businesses"
Liquor stores will remain open in some states while most other businesses are closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Some people can't wrap their heads around why New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and other governors have included liquor stores on the short list of essential retail businesses to continue operating while so many other businesses have been ordered to be closed. There might be a good reason for the decision. So, what is the reason?
By Margaret Minnicks7 years ago in The Swamp
COVID Pandemic Exposes the Ugly Secrets Hidden in America’s Healthcare System:. Top Story - March 2020.
Picture courtesy of Lenore Stutznegger and Norman Rainock (Norman Rainock Art Ca.) COVID, the hallways are eerily empty because of you. At night, where there normally exists an air of calmness as patients sleep, the hospital walls that surround me instead convey a sense of uncertainty. It is palpable. It is heavy. It is unlike anything I have ever encountered as a physician. Perhaps this is because deep down in places where fear and dread reside, we know you are there watching and studying our patterns of behavior. All the while, you silently spread yourself at exponential rates, knowing that our testing capabilities, while ever-growing, still fail to keep up with you. For this, you mock us. You are learning the truth about the American healthcare system as it stands. On the outside we are strong, with sophisticated buildings, fancy technology, and state-of-the-art equipment. To nearly any onlooker we appear to be thriving, at the top of our game. Yet you aren’t fooled by this; no, not at all because you have already penetrated these walls, exposing the hidden prison behind the shiny facade of our healthcare system.
By Dr. Megan Babb7 years ago in The Swamp
Racism will Not Solve this
Racism has been reborn because of the coronavirus how it is at risk of getting normalized and the danger it presents to Asian Americans. The dangerous ways Americans have reacted to the coronavirus out of fear. In Americans' fearful reaction to the risk of getting the virus their way of self-preservation, they do not preserve Asian Americans just found an excuse to be racist. The mistake in Wuhan has a long-lasting impact on the Chinese community around the world.
By TechNOGeek Reviews7 years ago in The Swamp
Black Women Prosecutors Under Seige Across The Country
Baltimore City’s State Attorney Marilyn Mosby traveled to St. Louis recently and joined fellow top black female prosecutors from around the country to speak out against the racially charged attacks they all have experienced while in office.
By HERBERT DYER7 years ago in The Swamp
Indians under President donald Trump in America
The racist’s calling card is ignorance: he cannot discriminate (if that is the right word) between nationalities and religions, between Indians and Saudis and Egyptians, Hindus and Muslims and Sikhs. One of the first hate crimes to take place in the days following 9/11 was the murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh gas-station owner in Mesa, Arizona. The killer probably thought that Sodhi, with his turban and beard, was Muslim; he had told his friends that he was “going to go out and shoot some towelheads.”
By Abdul Majeed Mohammed7 years ago in The Swamp
Climate Change
When the World Bank recently stated that Climate Change is a real imminent threat to the peace of the world really should be a wake up call to all those Republican climate change deniers. Heaven forbid we should shutter the fact that oil profits could suffer. But, like Scrooge himself stated if the multitudes suffer and die so-be-it and decrease the surplus population is the mindset of too many of the powers that be. The real scary thought though is that global warming if left unchecked today with all the scientific evidence to back up the fact the earth is getting warmer will thrust the world into a much harsher reality within the next decade.
By Dr. Williams7 years ago in The Swamp
White Parents Force Suspension of 'White Studies' High School Course
This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again. — James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, 1955 In an attempt to deny the existence of systemic or institutional racism, white parents of students at a high school in Wisconsin’s Delavan-Darien School District have successfully had “American Diversity,” a course on the subject, banned from the curriculum. The parents object to the teaching that “minorities” have been (and continue to be) oppressed by white people.
By HERBERT DYER7 years ago in The Swamp
This is a Warning from the Future
Italy woke up on Sunday morning to find out the whole country was in the future, already. During the night, the government published the most drastic actions yet taken by a western democracy to try and stop the spread of the new coronavirus. All Western countries are observing closely, worried soon they have to follow Italy's measures.
By Anton Black7 years ago in The Swamp
