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White Women Are a Danger
We members of the BIPOC community must be hypervigilant and ultra-aware of White women. They are far more dangerous to us than White men, especially if you’re a man of color. But even women are not safe from these demons in lambs clothing, who might come across as innocent, pure little angels but are in…
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The Patterson-Gimlin Film Part 2
The PGF, as the Patterson-Gimlin footage is often called, troubled many people from the start. For most of the film’s detractors, the timeline and the men’s conflicting stories told them all that they needed to know about the alleged Bigfoot encounter. For the defenders, however, the fact that Roger and Bob didn’t have their statements…
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The Patterson-Gimlin Film Part 1
If you don’t know what is meant by the Patterson-Gimlin Film, then you must have been raised in a very strict, 3rd world country where most foreign movies and TV shows are banned and only recently came to the United States. Everyone who knows about Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Skunk ape, and Yeti creatures knows about the…
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Yes, California Can be Redneck
Most people are surprised to learn that there are areas of California – one of the most liberal states in America – that are as conservative as the most Trump-worshipping towns in the Deep South and Midwest. I have been looking into buying land in the Golden State (in fact, I recently made the purchase)…
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Last Slave Ship Survivor’s Story
My father he name O-lo-loo-ay. He not a rich man. He have three wives. My mama she name Ny-fond-lo-loo. She de second wife. My mama have one son befo’ me so I her second child. She have four mo’ chillun after me, but dat ain’ all de chillun my father got. He got nine by de…
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They Fly The Confederate Flag
When I was a kid, I watched the ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ with my brother – as did thousands of other children of that time. I only watched the first few years of the show, losing interest to immerse myself more fully in the world of fiction, as well as my Barbie dolls. Back then, I…
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The First Black Person to Lead a Cannes Jury
Filmmaker Spike Lee is in Cannes, France – a town I visited in Spring of 1999, just after the Film Festival had ended – where he is the first Black person in the festival’s 74-year history to lead one of its prestigious juries. Many of my fellow tourists were disappointed that we had missed the…
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Why Don’t Americans Want What Europe Has?
The majority of Americans desire ‘free’ healthcare – 66% versus 30% favored a national health care plan. When it comes to higher education, many Americans were in agreement on making it all free: A recent Harris poll asked, “Do you support a proposal that would make public colleges, universities and trade schools free for all and…
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Nearly 180 Lives Lost July 4 Weekend
On July 1, the United States reached more than 10,000 fatal shootings in 2021. Last year, that number wasn’t reached until July 27, according to the Gun Violence Archive. In all, there have been at least 336 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, the same number as was recorded in all of 2018.…
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The Chuck E Cheese Killer
I have never understood madmen – because most of them are men – who commit workplace shootings. I can understand why someone might kill a cheating spouse or a person who had conned them out of a great deal of money, or who had hurt their child(ren)… but to take it out on your former…