Posted in May 2019 …

Colored People on TV

Long before the blockbuster movie, Black Panther blew up, earning more than $700 million at the box office in 2018  and sparking Black Panther parties (complete with regal costumes and the “Welcome to Wakanda” salutes offered in greeting) and decades before African-Americans held our heads a bit higher and walked a bit taller on the … Continue reading →

Separate Sundays

“It is appalling that 11:00 A. M. on Sunday morning remains the most segregated hour in America.”  When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made this statement during the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, I believe that most Christians, black and white, understood it to be the activist’s way of saying that racial discrimination … Continue reading →

Is Least Really Best?

With the 2020 elections just a little more than 18 months away, politicians and the general public are already squaring off to determine which side is “right” and which is “wrong”, since the concepts of compromise and a viable “middle ground” on economic and political issues seem to have drifted into complete oblivion.  Online forums … Continue reading →