Images and thoughts from day to day.
This is a rebroadcast episode of a Veterans For Peace Chapter 92 Seattle radio show I host with a local member Mike Dedrick. We talk to Vietnam veteran Allen Tlusty and Marine veteran and Hip Hop artist Miles (Megaciph) Thomas about their...
This show features John Martin, a military veteran I follow on Twitter. I interviewed him last year. We talk about his Native American heritage, the importance of history, the false narratives taught to us about Indigenous people, and a little bit about...
Yesterday, September 29th, during the presidential debate with Democrat candidate Biden, Donald Trump, when challenged to disavow White supremacy, responded, “Proud Boys, stand back and standby. Who are the Proud Boys? These four articles from the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Huffington...
How many people have died in U.S. wars? We seldom ask this question. When I asked Google, I found it hard to find a definitive answer. I did find a number for U.S. service members who died. The figure for “enemy combatants”...
In the third episode of About Us, we talk with my good friend Judith LeBlanc. Judith is the director of the Native Organizers Alliance. She provides and facilitates technical support, strategic planning, mentoring, and on the ground campaign development to Native groups....
Listen to “Celebrating Black History with Seattle’s Kibibi Monie” on Spreaker. In the 2nd episode of About Us, we will listen in on the opening of a Black History Celebration and World Cancer Day event held in the Langston Hughes Performing Arts...
In Super Bowl 2020, I am cheering for Kansas City. Here are the reasons why. I have been a Pittsburgh Steeler fan since their first Super Bowl run in 1975. I was ten years old and picked them to defeat the Minnesota...
In the early ’90s, when AOL was the internet for people who did not understand code, I communicated with a woman in a chat room who lived in Southern California. At some point, I wished her a Happy Thanksgiving, and she answered,...
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I most closely associate it with family. It is a day to be thankful for family, friends, all that we hold dear and the blessing we have received. But the holiday also carries a different dark...
Listen to “About Us – Episode 1. Indigenous Peoples’ Day & The 1st Time You were Called the N Word” on Spreaker. In 2014, Seattle and Minneapolis were the first cities to officially change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. According to...
https://medium.com/embrace-race/when-the-racist-is-someone-you-know-and-love-2933c7049182 The link above is a story of awakening and finding one’s power. But I have to say it irritated me as I read it. I read it impatiently because it started with an incident where a person referred to Black people...
Today, I was a guest on The Santita Jackson Show broadcast on WCPT 820 AM, Chicago Progressive Talk Radio. She airs weekdays at 6 AM. Motivated by the story of Army SPC Jarrett William Smith, she asked me on the show to...
August 2019 is the five-year commemoration of the murder of Michael Brown Jr., an eighteen-year-old Black boy killed by a White Ferguson, MO police officer. Ferguson is less than two miles from Saint Louis. At the time, I worked for Veterans For...
April 16, 2019, four shootings took place in New York City. This is a story about one of them and the death of Davion Powell, an 18-year young man who grew up and died in Brooklyn. At first glance, it is a...
Recently, I was listening to a news interview of a rabbi from a neighboring congregation to the Chabad Synagogue in Poway CA where a 19-year-old shooter killed Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60 and wounded three others. He commented that violence is the new...
Here are a few tips to help with the challenge of intergenerational leadership. I’m quickly putting up this list because I am speaking at a frank event and I want to provide a quick resource. I will follow up with more thoughts...
I am hurt that Hate won in Florida may win in Georgia. My childhood home, the South is not so much the new South many want it to be. Yes, in 2018 you can say obviously racists things and win elections. Once...
Today I rode my bicycle 16 miles. I road down 7th to Gravois to Arsenal, to Kingshighway, to Manchester, back to Broadway, South on Broadway for a while, turned around and went home. I stopped by a music shop where I found...
Donald Sterling is simply a high profile example of the racism that continues to be a constant undercurrent in our country. Many people claim it is isolated, but it is everywhere. One really does not have to search for it. For years,...
This is a touching and yet somewhat strange moment. It is wonderful to see a dad with his daughter. I love that he is teaching her how to be tough and face danger. But NYC on a miniature surf or oversize skateboard...
One of the coolest things I have ever done was to accompany my mother to her 60th Year High School Reunion. That’s right, my mother went to a 60-year reunion where many of her high school buddies reminisced about the fun times...