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Here in America, our country is slowly coming out of an almost year and a half of being locked down. During that time many of us lost family and friends to the COVID 19 Virus.In addition, many people were isolated, couldn’t see or touch family and friends, and we’re unsure as to exactly how theContinue reading “Pandemic Trauma”

Crime is occurring in our community at alarming rates. People of color are dying in large numbers daily. These deaths are not caused by law enforcement or hate groups but instead, these tragic incidents are being perpetrated by us. The majority of offenders in these violent crimes are young people (15 – 20 years old).Continue reading “Where are they?”

Do you remember when you could leave your doors unlocked at night and not worry about anyone entering your home?  Do you remember walking through the neighborhood and everyone in the neighborhood speaking to each other? Those days are long gone. People today appear to be angry, but why? This anger can be seen everywhere.Continue reading “Why are People so Angry”

As a human being, I was taught to respect everyone, especially women. However, our current generation of young men seems to have lost their ability to show respect for women. It’s unclear to me why women are being treated with little or no regard by their so-called significant other but it’s happening in public asContinue reading “Women & Respect”

Wake up everybody, no more sleeping in bed. No more backward thinking time for looking ahead. Though those words are from a song that’s a decade old, those words are still relevant today, even more so. Let us not be onlookers while a certain cadre of people change laws, overlook crimes and take this countryContinue reading “Wake Up Everybody!”

This nation has witnessed a surge in violent crime in most major cities which includes Atlanta, my home city. Emma Tucker and Peter Nickens wrote an article for CNN on April 3, 2021, and reported that violent crime in New York rose 39% while Chicago’s numbers increased 59%. Additionally, Cameron McWhirter of the Wall StreetContinue reading “The Rise in Violent Crime”

African Americans have faced many atrocities in this country. We have endured slavery, sharecropping, segregation, Jim Crow, desegregation and now it seems our community is being decimated by police shootings and targeted by hateful groups and hateful rhetoric. Now, when we rise, become determined, and take our power back to choose our political leaders weContinue reading “The Resilience of African Americans”

Earlier this week Daunte Wright, a twenty-year-old black man was killed by the police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota after a routine traffic stop. This was a tragedy. The residents in the community were quite upset and protested throughout the day into the night. A strip mall in the area was looted and among the storesContinue reading “Looting the Dollar Tree in Minnesota”

Before cell phone cameras or video cameras became popular people of color were being arrested and charged with crimes that they did not commit. Our society for years has been unwilling to accept the fact that certain groups of people in this country have been continually mistreated by law enforcement and other groups across America.Continue reading “The Power of Cameras”

There are lyrics to a song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five that goes like this: It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under”. “Don’t push me cause I’m close to the edge, I’m trying not to lose my head”. These lyrics seem to depict the responseContinue reading “How to live a peaceful life”