Racism – Carole J. Garrison

An Excerpt from Maxwell Street

Our future, our hopes and yes, our survival, may rest with these youngsters. If they can’t rise to their full potential because of antiquated barriers, prejudice, and ignorance, we are lost.

Burning Books: The Strategy of Weak Minds to Control Ideas

To add an exclamation point to the environment that exists in tandom with book burning: 11 people have been killed and 67 injured in mass shootings in the week since the children’s deaths in Uvalde.

Outside the Fence

The history of the people who lived in the slave house and the “colored” soldiers who fought in our wars is our collective history, and we need to reclaim it, know it, own it, and work together for a better shared future.

Nothing is Just Red or Blue

War is a luxury this planet can no longer afford.

The Paranoia of Diversity

I, for one, am much more alarmed about the increase in smoking, vaping, and gratuitous sex and violence in movies and TV series, regardless of ratings.

Police Reform

Let us give police clear and unambiguous guidelines while relieving them of tasks that we should assign to ourselves and our social institutions.

Busted: We are all Racists

But of course I am a racist and I have to work at it every day, every day, so that I don’t add to the harm racism does to people, to society, to the planet. We all do.