Category Archives: Racism

We need a marching song. The Chicks provide.

It’s “March, March,” from the Chicks’ 2020 album, “Gaslighter.” Written and performed by an impressive musical collective,* it’s fierce and female, a percussive, insinuating, syncopated chant in the minor key we all need now. It’s a new civil war, and … Continue reading

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Some fierce and positive thoughts

I’m thinking we’ve been dragged into a new Civil War — dragged, quite appropriately, by white supremacists, male and female, whose need to express their endless hatred for women and black women got them to Trump. Their cause is as … Continue reading

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So how is this optimist reacting to the nightmarish surreality?

It’s 5:30 pm. I haven’t changed from my sleep gear, not yet. Maybe I won’t, not today. I just realized I haven’t brushed my teeth. Or eaten anything. What have I been doing? Reading a lot of despair, rage, knee-jerk … Continue reading

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