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Race Relations
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Race Relations is a web site that discusses many different aspects of race relations, racism, multiculturalism and ethnic diversity
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Raspberry’s Raspberry: Uncle Tom Undertones
An editorial entitled “Always Flunking Race 101” was written some years ago by black columnist, William Raspberry, of the Washington Post Writer’s Group. As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, I thought Raspberry’s columns were interesting ...
Sing, Dear Mother Africa
I say, hey, dear Mother Africa, Sing your sad, sad song. Tell them how you gave them life And how they do you wrong. Tell them, Mother Africa. Tell them, sweet mother of all. If given the truth again and again, Maybe they’ll hear your call. Your li...
Why I, As A Black Man, Will Probably Never Be A Repulican
I registered as a Democrat because it was the thing to do. Most of my family members were (and are) Democrats, and I heard that Democrats were the “party for black people.” Moreover, nearly all the persons that I know of that support the Confe...
To Flag, Or Not To Flag
I never thought that I would ever fly the American flag, much less take pride in it. As stated in my poem “Lingering Reality”: As awful and unpatriotic as it may seem to you I laugh at the thought of the “Red, White and Blue”. It symbolizes f...
Black! White! Church? Right!
Every Sunday, you hear the Good News Among like-colored faces in the pews. Does not your soul feel somewhat amiss In your holy temple of monochrome bliss? The Lord’s church—a sanctuary of piety— Has become a reflection of an ugly soci...
Hard Lessons To Learn
My heart goes out to everyone who has suffered injuries and/or lost friends and family during the tragedies of September 11, 2001. It is pretty much impossible for me to even begin to imagine the type of pain, grief and despair that persons who wer...

