Addictive disease
posted over 4 years ago | 10 comments
Addictive disease
I am a recovering addict. It took a long time for me to get into recovery. My self identified intelligence was probably the greatest barrier to getting better. However, the state of understanding of addiction when I did go into ...
I am a recovering addict. It took a long time for me to get into recovery. My self identified intelligence was probably the greatest barrier to getting better. However, the state of understanding of addiction when I did go into ...
America-apartheid, Cuba-freedom
posted over 4 years ago | 3 comments
While the freedom fighters of Southern Africa were struggling with American supported South Africa, Cuba lends the support necessary for a crucial victory against Reagan and the Union of South Africa. At some point, Americans have to come face to ...
EONS and age
posted over 4 years ago | 26 comments
I guess I'm just slow witted. I've just come across the controversy about dropping the age for admittance to EONS.
First off, I am against it. I'm not anti under 50, I just believe the arbitrary choice of the age of 50 works as a choice
for having...
First off, I am against it. I'm not anti under 50, I just believe the arbitrary choice of the age of 50 works as a choice
for having...
What happened to the Hippies?
posted over 4 years ago | 7 comments
What can we assume are the values of a culture which calls a movement counter culture which values
love, equality, and peace. What's more significant to me is what happened to the adherents of the
values of the hippies. My instinct is to believe...
love, equality, and peace. What's more significant to me is what happened to the adherents of the
values of the hippies. My instinct is to believe...
Illegal overthrow(So what's new)
posted over 4 years ago | 4 comments
A monarchy in limbo. Hawaii's royalty, overthrown illegally, may try for a comeback
By Ian Mulgrew,
in The Vancouver Sun
13 September 1997
Don Ho may have to stop calling himself the "King of Hawaii" because there soon could be a real one.
Thre...
By Ian Mulgrew,
in The Vancouver Sun
13 September 1997
Don Ho may have to stop calling himself the "King of Hawaii" because there soon could be a real one.
Thre...
A 4th of July speech
posted over 4 years ago | 11 comments
4th of July Speech
Frederick Douglass - July 4, 1852
4th of July Speech
Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I or those I represent to do with your national independence? Are the g...
Frederick Douglass - July 4, 1852
4th of July Speech
Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I or those I represent to do with your national independence? Are the g...
Ireland's first black mayor
posted over 4 years ago | 2 comments
From asylum seeker to Ireland's first black mayor
30 June 2007 08:50
Ireland's first black mayor on Friday hailed his election as a symbol of how European countries can adapt successfully to rapid rates of immigration.
Rotimi Adebari, who arriv...
30 June 2007 08:50
Ireland's first black mayor on Friday hailed his election as a symbol of how European countries can adapt successfully to rapid rates of immigration.
Rotimi Adebari, who arriv...
The Supreme Court
posted over 4 years ago | 16 comments
The recent Supreme Court decision regarding the use of race in school selection caused a great pain and much heat in me. I have used the time since the decision to return to reflection in order to make course corrections if necessary in my own pri...
Whites Just Don't Understand the Black Experience
posted over 4 years ago | 5 comments
By Margaret Kamara, New America Media.
MANSFIELD, Ohio -- To white Americans, giving up television is a hardship; being black is not. That's the upshot of a series of studies by researchers at The Ohio State University.
As part of the studies, ...
MANSFIELD, Ohio -- To white Americans, giving up television is a hardship; being black is not. That's the upshot of a series of studies by researchers at The Ohio State University.
As part of the studies, ...
When did America become a democracy?
posted over 4 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 3 comments
I continue to have a very difficult time, and have had no assistance in understanding, how America can expect another country to do something it has taken so long to do itself, in a circumscribed amount of time. If we take the beginning of America...
