What say you?

  I don't know about you, but if I hear someone talking about a blatant lie within an earshot of my existence, my ears perk up like antennas.  I guess I zero in on what people talk about because my parents were always discussing things about me behind closed doors as a kid.  I could …

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Empathy for Black Culture

I am in the city district for public schools where the white color of my skin poses a problem for my acceptance and ability to impact the children I teach unless I tell them from the moment they enter the classroom that I am an advocate for their rights.  And I am, someone who truly …

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The naked waitress dream

  I had a dream that I was waiting on people in a restaurant naked.  When I realized everyone was watching as I walked around in the dining room I stooped down to talk to my table quietly.  Then I was inside a fancy dressing room at a department store inside the mall.  The room …

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Suggestions for substances

It insults my intelligence to assume that I need to view prescription ads while watching tv. to insinuate it is my norm. I remember when this brainwashing tactic for the average person began some 10 years ago, and I'm even more saddened now that mainstream marketing has pimped out medicine and made people mindless when …

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Justice is available

I was held up at gunpoint a few years ago by two black guys in Baltimore and held in contempt before church leaders as they misunderstood my re-telling of the event. Quick to respond in anger and judgment because of their own reference point on racism, they failed to hear the perspective of everyone involved. …

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