Last week, among all the garbage that was going on in Baltimore, we saw something we don’t see very often: a parent taking charge of her teenage child who was going down to where the riots were happening. Once the vandalism started, it turned from protests to riots. But she marched through the crowd,...

Remember when your parents told you to believe half of what you see and almost none of what you hear? I think of that, every time I see a Tweet or Facebook post from people I know never check out their information. These erroneous posts get traction mostly because they are received by friends and family...

Congratulations go to Al Sharpton. He has succeeded once again. In full-on Sharpton style, he timely ginned up the chaos and devastation in a midwestern suburb named Ferguson, Mo., and as planned, it ignited and smoldered. Sharpton taking center stage to wreak havoc is always predictable, but the newest...

A week or so ago I wrote that I thought the current occupant of the White House should be impeached. I received many comments about that, but a couple of them really disturbed me. The comments said what I wrote was “hate speech.” I thought what I wrote was “free speech.” You see, I can’t stand...

Are you a racist? Yes, you are. Good, I have your attention. I just wanted to see if I could get your attention by calling you a racist, since it’s what everyone else does. Today the word hardly holds any meaning. One group uses it to try to make another group feel bad or to get the attention of others...

I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out what to write about that has nothing to do with the president’s lies, or the State of the Union propaganda we will be asked to buy on Tuesday, up to and including global cooling. No, make that global warming. No, wait, climate change. Yeah, that’s the...

For Al Sharpton, it’s all about color. Not reality, just color. Al Sharpton commented on his show this week that there are no black people on the board of Apple, and that 30 percent of the largest corporations in America have no black people on their boards. He and the guest on his show went on to...

No one could sanely argue against the statement that the nation has been overly saturated with the events of Martin-Zimmerman. Irrespective of the thoroughly sopping topic of skin color, we can now sit and watch the New Orleans saga of Coulter-Landry. Marshall Coulter is 14, black and hospitalized. Merritt...

Every so often, an event occurs and we watch as the event takes on a life of its own.  Content is skewed toward ugliness to produce a story that revives the hollow cry of “needing a dialogue about race.” OK. Let’s do that. It ought to be a positive exercise, but the truth is, the scenario...

In the scheme of things, Trayvon Martin is not special. Except for his parents and other loved ones, he is simply another citizen. But: Trayvon is hailed as special, and therein lies yet another tragedy added to a long list of tragedies. The list includes Trayvon’s death, his family’s grief,...