Inside from the Inside

Do you feel compelled to personally write a check to any black person you see, if you are white, because 200 years ago your ancestor may have profited from the slave labor of the black person’s ancestor?  That’s what reparation is in the minds of many, and it is not appealing to anyone in that [...]

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During the presidential campaign and post election the GOP “brand” was compared to dog food.  Needless to say the brand was seriously damaged and GOP leaders quickly came up with a rebranding strategy.  Fast forward to the present and the once powerful “brand” is still in shambles.  In fact from a marketing perspective, it is [...]

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On Sunday, the two churches – one founded by slave owners, the other by former slaves – gathered to erect a stone memorial honoring, as the etched words put it, “the lives of those buried here – once enslaved by men, but who are and have always been precious children of God.”                Perhaps true repair-ations [...]

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Harry has an interesting post on the astounding black-white wealth gap, and ends by pointing to reparations as a possible solution. He gives as succinct and compelling a summary of the reparations movement as I’ve read: That movement says the Black-white wealth gap was created immorally, over centuries, on purpose, with wide complicity of many [...]

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Freelance writer, novelist, and screenwriter Erica Kennedy‘s Facebook group, Feminista’s Advertising Hall of Fame (or Lame?), documents the “best and worst examples of commercial advertising.” In fact, this winner, above, isn’t an ad, as American Apparel rushed to make clear, shortly after the page ran in i-D Magazine back in 2007, but part of that [...]

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Over the past couple of weeks, two friends of mine had tasks that took them traveling to places in the southern USA. In both instances they expressed their reluctance to be in that part of the country. While they joked about it a bit, it was also pretty clear they were uncomfortable with the idea [...]

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I came across the sad story of Officer Omar J. Edwards the other day.

It could be on Anystreet U.S.A. A guy comes outside to find someone going through the belongings in his car. Naturally, he gives chase and the thief (as they always do) escapes his grasp.

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