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Models Monday: Look Closely…

…these people are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. Thank you, Bree Newsom and James Ian Tyson for exposing these faces of lethal ill-will.

Models Monday: The Confederate Flag’s Stark Simplicity

No American can claim that the Confederate Flag testifies to their proud “Southern Heritage” and be committed to freedom, truth, justice, equality, and democracy. All Americans who make such a claim in support of this flag are dangerous people because they are irrational. These people have mistaken an advertisement concocted in New York as theContinue reading “Models Monday: The Confederate Flag’s Stark Simplicity”

“Ballad of Birmingham”

“Mother dear, may I go downtown instead of out to play, and march the streets of Birmingham in a freedom march today?” “No, baby, no, you may not go, for the dogs are fierce and wild, and clubs and hoses, guns and jails ain’t good for a little child.” “But, mother, I won’t be alone.Continue reading ““Ballad of Birmingham””

Resonant

Jon Stewart offers a resonant reading of U.S. history. Simply put, the massacre at Mother Emanuel constitutes racial terrorism. Denials issued across social media, through conservative news outlets and the cautious language of liberals concerning the potency of racism in the United States conveyed through Dylann Roof’s heinous act confirms Stewart’s pessimistic conclusion: https://youtu.be/GbQwJ3huoIk

Charleston Church Shooting

“My God! We aren’t even safe at church,” Anonymous black woman after the 16th Street Church Bombing; 1963-2015. The “clean-shaven white man about 21 years old who was wearing a gray sweatshirt, blue jeans and Timberland boots” who opened fire yesterday at Emanuel A.M.E. Church on June 17 marks a return to the past violenceContinue reading “Charleston Church Shooting”

Is There Mercy for Black Children in Schools

In viewing Jason Gilmore’s short film, I was particularly attuned to the bureaucratic, institutional language used to describe Xavier. These terms estranged him from the human compassion and concern that all children benefit from. My son is six-years-old. He’s smart. He’s black. He’s sweet. There have been times, in his few years in school, whenContinue reading “Is There Mercy for Black Children in Schools”

Models Monday: Meaning

I have become a Pinterest fanatic. I have over 30 Boards and more than 960 Pins. Pinterest helps me visually reify abstract ideas into neat categories. Many of the ideas conveyed here on this blog also appear on my Boards. Thus, I have categorized images according to themes of beauty, reflection, mourning and loss, kindness,Continue reading “Models Monday: Meaning”

Well Done Beau Biden, 1969-2015

“Say she rose as light as a bird”

They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. And they would walk up on the air like climbin up on a gate. And they flew like blackbirds over the fields. Black, shiny wings flappin against the blue up there. “The People Could Fly,” as toldContinue reading ““Say she rose as light as a bird””

Story of a Memorable Photograph

Although the man in the video is identified as “Gordon,” he’s Mr. Gordon to me: http://youtu.be/62FXvUflkLc 