Frothing anger splashing about the tips of racism’s icebergs isn’t the half of it. Racism’s real damages are inflicted below the surface. Generations are subjected to cultural water-boarding, Billions of good people, especially children, worry that long-term lies about their inferiority include grains of truth.
Antebellum’s Subjugation Messages
“No man is an island, entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe (think humanity) is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine…
Mother Stories Rank with the Most Important History Known to Man!
Freedom and slavery Blend into our lives like life in living tree trunks Encompassed, restricted, contained Bound in wood flesh Enslaved by mammal inadequacy Yet saturated by spring’s volition Growing sacred freedom In progressive rings
Vote-On Vote-On “Until the late nineteenth century the question of woman’s ability to profit from or even survive higher education was controversial. Vassar College opened in 1865 was often described by its first president as an experiment.… as late as 1871 an MD at Harvard Medical School published a book on the dangers of higher…
Sunburns come in many colors. The quickest way to become a redneck is to spend too many hours working under a hot summer sun. Humanity’s neck coloring differences are mostly inherited DNA, nurtured by xenophobic isolation, then brushed with climate. Rednecks are a complex subject. The word redneck is used to describe independent country folk…
This is a very important time in human history, because whatever we’re in charge of and responsible for, we’re in charge of and responsible for now.
Human bamboozling, one of our natural limitations, resembles what causes so many people to condemn bamboo. How many gardens has humanity invaded? How many life forms has Homo sapiens driven towards extinction? Who’s next? Where next? Is any garden on earth safe from our human propensity to invade? Most important, is there any possibility that humanity is about to do a better job of self-control?