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About Uncle Toms
I was at the family home, on 92nd. I was ranting and raving, calling certain black leaders “Uncle Toms.” My dad, who was just a plain working-class carpenter, got angry and said, “Boy, what the HELL ...
Talking about the Green Book
Back in the day, black entertainers could not stay in hotels when they came to Chicago to perform. At our family home at 9201 S. Perry, once Dick Gregory rang the bell. WOW!! I happened to ...
Loss Prevention
Grey and cloudy days like today make the Bronx look uglier. The streets are strewn with garbage, the sidewalks smeared with dog shit, and some old lady is likely to poke you with her umbrella. Nonetheless ...
Why I hate PC
“NO-LEGGED MOTHERFUCKER!!” I’d left the lunch room at Malcolm X Junior College, in Chicago. I decided to eat my food at one of the tables that were located in the hallway, just outside the lunch room. ...
Purging with Marie Kondo: The Lack of Joy in Middle-Class American Households
I am captivated by America’s fascination with Marie Kondo. Named Time’s most influential person, Kondo is a 34-year old Japanese millennial (or xennial is it?) and professional home organizer whose books have sold millions of copies. Over ...
What a Waste!
Today’s NY Times has a flattering profile of Shannon Kent, a 35-year old woman in the US Navy, who was killed last month in northern Syria: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/shannon-kent-military-spy.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Apparently, much about her military career has been kept ...
The Camp For Underprivileged Children
When I was young, a group of us from my nearly all-Black neighborhood were enrolled in a summer camp for city children to expose us to the soothing wonders of the great outdoors. The camp was ...
Bitterly Divided
The best-kept secret in U.S. history is the resistance of southerners, and especially southern nonslaveholding whites, to the slaveholders during the Civil War. W.E.B. Du Bois, in the chapter “The General Strike” in Black Reconstruction in ...