When does the collective wail of the majority get to drown out the rantings of the minority? When do our healthcare workers get uninterrupted, unbiased time on every network, in every news outlet to tell their stories, to tell the unvarnished truth? How will we ever make amends to the families of the dead, to the millions unemployed, to the small businesses that have closed, to the school children, because of the country’s leaders’ utter failure to lead?
For this #GivingTuesday on December 1, 2020, and my upcoming birthday, I’m asking people to join me in […]
We are all spent and on edge Every day, I read the news. I see the photos. I […]
Six Black people (four men, one woman, and a teenaged boy) have been found hanging from trees in […]
We, as white people, have to stop assuming that we aren’t part of the problem, that we even fully understand the problem. We don’t. We have not be born in skin that is inherently viewed as “bad”. Light and dark, good and evil. All of it relates. We benefit from it, even when we don’t realize it. The benefit of the doubt is always given to us, and the suspicion is always placed on people of color. It’s time to acknowledge the truth. I, for one, will no longer be quiet for the sake of propriety or so I don’t hurt the feelings of someone who thinks that this is an attack. Is anyone listening anymore? I sure as hell hope so because the message is literally life or death.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether employers have the right to fire employees based on […]
My maternal grandfather called us “strong-willed women”. It was a point of pride with him. I come from […]
Thank you to all of the gig, service, delivery, postal and healthcare workers NOTE: A version of this […]
