What Manner of Men?
Posted in America, Articles, Democracy, Leadership, Moral Courage
Looking down the darkened corridors of American Democracy, I still see faint flickers of light clustering and creating new pathways of hope for the American people as they make their way outward and upward to greater dreams and brighter days. That men in their monumental selfishness, unbridled recklessness and ossified arrogance would so carelessly wield […]
What Do You Mean Shut Down Our Government?
Posted in America, Americans, Freedom, Politicians
Will somebody please tell me how a country shuts down its government? Does shutting down the government mean that it no longer needs to exist or that government is no longer necessary? What does it mean when the President of the United States lifts the sanctions on a Russian Oligarch from a country responsible for […]
Quotable Quotes on Power III
Posted in Compassion, Democracy, Power, Truth
“Walls turned sideways are bridges.” Angela Davis “God made freedom. Man made slavery.” Marie Joseph—Grenier “The government is best which governs best.” John M. Hutchins “Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.” Robert Sherwood “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III “Power, when invested in the hands of […]
Democrats Don’t Relinquish Impeachment Documents Until You Have A Firm Agreement With the Republicans To Call Witnesses to the Senate Trial.
Posted in Absurdities, Frivolities, and Inanities, Americans, Democracy
Listen Democrats. Listen Nanci Pelosi. Listen House Leaders. Do not, do not, do not trust the Republicans to conduct a fair Senate trial by calling witnesses who have not been heard from who can jeopardize the outcome of impeachment. Do not fall for the promises or overtures of a fair trial. You will regret the […]
Time for Silencing of the Lames: Nanci Pelosi Should Once Again Become Speaker of the House
Posted in America, Compassion, Democracy, Equality, Leadership, Moral Courage, Women
The seventeen Democrats led by Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Bill Foster of Illinois along with numerous freshmen who have petitioned other Democrats against supporting Nanci Pelosi as Speaker of the House next January should stand down. Now is not the time for newly elected Democrats to quibble over who will lead them this next […]
“America You Go Girls!”
Posted in America, Democracy, Election Cycles and Processes, Equality, Movements, Women
The pendulums of justice and freedom are swinging back to their rightful places for all the people of America. The 2018 midterm elections is a referendum on what most Americans want their country to be; not a nation of haters bent on bullying their way to power by frightening and pummeling the people into submission […]
The Problem of Absolute Power
Posted in Democracy, Leadership, Politicians, Power
Absolute power cannot be wielded absolutely forever. The exercise of power in institutions and organizations in any social order can spawn the catabolic elements of its own demise, for within the matrix of power’s workings are the tendencies of human beings to exceed the limits of power particularly in their coercive attempts to maintain and […]
” The Problem of Procedural Injustice.”
Posted in America, Democracy, Leadership, Moral Courage, Public Servants
The crises now facing American Liberal Democracy may have as much to do with the denial of procedural justice by politicians as it does the aversion of distributive justice for everyday Americans through failed political processes, corrupt political leaders and a broken political system. Such grievous injustices have been evidenced most recently by the refusal […]
The Hero Will Be Missed.
Posted in America, Democracy, Leadership, Moral Courage
In these solemn hours and days in our country—we still hope, work and believe that bright burnished days will be our future—the examples of true heroic men and women of strong moral courage and good moral character who are true public servants who love their country, have sacrificed tremendously for it and with all their […]
Long Live Her Majesty Queen of Soul!
Posted in America, Articles, Great Souls, The African American Church, The Power of Soul Music, Those Great and Gifted Women
As a proud native Detroiter, I have always been exceptionally fond of the Motor City and the extraordinary talent it has produced. Detroit has always been a cultural mecca for food ways and folkways, for music particularly Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Gospel, Rock and Roll, Classical and other forms of music. It has also been […]
