So, while America has cried over opiods, awakened to the health crisis that is drug addiction and turned away from an ill-conceived war on drugs, I think there is an important milestone yet to cross. America needs to apologize for 70 years of calling Billie Holiday just a great singer that got hooked on drugs.
Some things are just obvious, painfully obvious, so obvious that it hurts you to have to explain them. Like equal rights for […]
We have all witnessed Pro-Lifers fighting Pro-Choicers, Liberals fighting Conservatives and Democrats fighting Republicans. What we have not seen is any real victory that can be claimed by either side and some questionable practices all around. I think the system is broken and the practices are suspect. But I’m willing to take a cue from Governor Ivey and ask one more question
Where daughters need to spend time in the workforce seeing who they could be, husbands need time seeing who their wives are out in the marketplace of society. We need to see the person she was before she became a wife and before she became a mother.
While I listen and wait for a word from my favorite television preachers, I continue to see the relevance of Moses to the social ills of today. Especially in minority communities, where the population is high, resources are low and the oppressive forces are strong. I can hear Moses saying loudly, “Let my people go!”
…The world had Bruce Lee, who came to the United States, but we had Chuck Norris. Even past his prime, I watched him pretty religiously on Walker, Texas Ranger as his character protected Dallas, TX from all types of bad guys. I knew it was a television show but, as a kid, Chuck Norris (aka Cordell Walker) was the epitome of justice obtained the hard way – with your fists, on the street.
My wife and I were watching television yesterday and I wasn’t on it. I watched TV the day before that and the week before that and I wasn’t on then either. Come to think of it, I have never seen myself on television or really anything like me. …My problem isn’t that I’m not on television. My problem is that I’m average and I’m not on television. Let me explain.
I hope that the messages posted here are a blessing to you. Of course, before you invest the time to read what […]