Posted in History, Politics, Social issues, Uncategorized, tagged African-American, black, Caucasian, colored, integration, negro on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We were on our way home from a movie when granddaughter Kass, who will be 10 in a few months, said something about “colored people.” I don’t recall the rest of the comment; it was the phrase that caught my ear.
“Where did you hear that?” I asked.
I had not heard it in nearly 40 years.
“We [...]
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“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States.
One of the cardinal rules of survival, I was led as a [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The day was half over when I found out school was closed for the day. A colleague came to me with the news that school was closed in Gettysburg. Who knew.
We had accumulated about an inch of dry white power during the early morning hours. I stepped outside, blew at my Jeep to clean it [...]
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In sports and politics, there are a few who actually make it to the mountain.
In the sports Olympics, young people work hard for years with their eyes on the Gold. Skiers strengthen their legs and practice their timing, hoping some day someone will notice. One day, some of them find themselves on a mountain, competing [...]
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