This is in response to the letter from Jenna Kotch in the Sunday, 8/2/09, Post-Dispatch.
How one can state with such certainty that race was behind the incident? No one except Mr. Gates and the officer knows exactly what transpired that…
All the media coverage of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and the subsequent remarks of President Obama brought up old memories for me. Many years ago when my children were little I was stopped by the Collinsville…
Well, I had thought for some time that Mr. Billingsly’s column was intended as a joke, but now I am sure that the gentleman does indeed not exist.
I have spent a fair amount of time in New York city and…
Attorney General Eric Holder got it half right when he stated that we were cowards for not facing racial bigotry. That makes him a half Hero and half better than our white leaders we have had ever since we hung…
This week we celebrate the previously thought impossible. Bidwell’s Cardinals in the Super Bowl and a black United States President.
To make 2009 notorious for the impossible, all we need do is land a man on Mars and let the Chicago…
In reference to the term African-American
We see this term used all the time, and I think when this term is used it is very racial. You do not see German-American or Italian-American, these people 99 times out of 100 have…
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the missing (invisible) female component of “African-Americans” discussed in recent Post- Dispatch articles about “African-American History”?
On Nov. 9 (page B4) there was a listing of “Key Moments in African- American History.”…
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