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Riding the Backs of Hillbillies to the White House
When I first heard that J.D. Vance was being considered as Donald Trumps running mate, I knew it was a perfect match. Two privileged white huskers shoveling fear into the hearts and souls of folks reaching out for a savior, … Continue reading
Election 2024: Taking Sides
The Awkward Pose takes its name from a yoga pose in which the feet rest flat on the floor while the knees, hips, and shoulders are all bent at ninety-degrees. It ought to be an easy position to hold, since … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024 Election, Donald Trump, Election 2024, Joe Biden
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Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and John McWhorter
I read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. It made me uncomfortable. I felt his anger and frustration. I realized that I never would, could, experience such alienation. I live in a world that’s powered by people like me, … Continue reading
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Tagged Between the World and Me, John McWhorter, racism, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Woke Racism
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Questioning the Language of Solidarity
“In a broader sense, I know what happened to Iishea Stone: a luminous and extraordinary woman was failed repeatedly—by her family’s pathologies, by poverty, and by a social safety net that couldn’t seem to catch her, Had Iishea grown up … Continue reading
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Tagged homelessness, Jennifer Egan, John McWhorter, The New Yorker, Woke Racism
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When the US Government Condemned Fascism, Rather than Accommodate It
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Tagged Fascism, Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, US Army
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When Did You Realize: We’re Screwed
The data is pretty clear. Human life on this planet, as we know it, is on its descent. Ten thousand years after we harnessed the extractive possibilities of agriculture, we are racing through the planet’s resources—and heating it up in … Continue reading
Let’s Make Guns the New Tobacco
I came of age in the era of glamorous smoking. Forty-six percent of Americans—including nearly everyone that mattered—smoked cigarettes. I gave my parents curlicued ashtrays as birthday gifts. Their friends offered each other glittery lighters. And of course, everyone in … Continue reading
Insatiable Want
“Why is a man who is winning as much as Sam Alito is so furious?” That line—deep into Margaret Talbot’s profile of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in the September 5, 2022 edition of The New Yorker—jumped out at me. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dobbs vs Jackson, Hunger for power, Justice Alito, Supreme Court, The New Yorker
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A New Narrative
We are stuck. On one hand liberals, or progressives, or left-wing, or Democrats, or whatever you want to call them; are hell-bent on subdividing our nation into ever tightly defined ‘identities.’ According to them, I am a cis-gender gay white … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, Haiti, Liberal, Mutual respect, political divide, United States Politics
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Words to Live By…courtesy of Inventing Anna
My new favorite slogan for life comes from a deep binge of Netflix’ Inventing Anna. I watched the seven-hour dive into the world of New York City glamour, crime, and con-artistry back in March, when it topped so many must-view … Continue reading
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