Inside from the Inside

Not if you are Gerardo Vilchez. An American citizen living in Mexico, he was arrested when Raleigh, NC police found seventy pounds of cocaine in the rear wheels of the tour bus he was driving. They stopped him because they said he had run a stop sign.  Last week a jury found him innocent and  [...]

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Just when you thought that the dreamlike logic of white supremacy couldn’t produce any further absurdities, the Caucasians drag another one out of the cornfield: According to the Associated Press, a study, conducted by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, to be published in the September edition of the journal, Psychological Science, has concluded that [...]

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This is an exceedingly simple story. Yet from the first time I heard it, I sensed there was something very tender about it. The woman on the left is Tracie. She was my boss for over six years, until I was laid off recently. The man on the right is her co-worker, Mike. The story [...]

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As a first-time visitor to this blog, you may be wondering about my credibility in the token role of Average White Guy.  Fear not: Bill Cosby and Colin Powell are my favorite black people. I think immigrants should learn our language, just like my grandfather did. I’m not clear why it’s okay for 50 Cent [...]

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I’m “phoning it in” today – ok, not literally, but I’m using audio for my post…and today I’m sharing a LITTLE bit about what it’s like to be Black. Thoughts. Feelings. Questions.

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Many consider The Willie Lynch Letter urban legend. Its lack of suitable authentication does not diminish its instructive nature. This letter outlines the most efficient, and least troublesome, means for mass control of a closed society. Its core idea: Employ difference to feed division. Oversight Governance is vertical. Control is horizontal. Refined, the principles of [...]

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“Why does Rice play Texas?” – President John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962 Do what is right because it is right – sometimes.  That’s on a personal level.  At a group level, it happens a little less frequently.  As a society, it’s getting pretty tough to pull off [unless there's a related benefit to be [...]

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” …Albert Einstein     Hurricane Ike was a level two storm. It’s a good thing because driving around the day after, it looked like more like a [...]

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The U.K.’s Independent has a recent photo essay titled, America Unmasked:  The images that reveal the Ku Klux Klan is alive and well in 2009. Now, that title is, on its face, absurd.  Photos of a few inbred, backwoods crackers do not “unmask” America, any more than Simon Cowell unmasks the English as a country [...]

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If you think Americans have lost their way, maybe it’s time for us to take a gander at the inspired wisdom of Gene Autry, America’s Singing Cowboy, so we can all learn to be good cowboys and earn our white hats. Here’s the code that directed his long and prosperous life. Gene Autry’s Cowboy Code [...]

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