Since even before it’s founding as an independent nation, America has always been two different countries, with two very different populations and two very different sets of morals and values. Two hundred and fifty years ago, Just As It Was 250 Years Ago, It Is Vital For the Future Of American Democracy to Ignore the…
Black Lives Matter
What Language Do African Americans Speak? Ebonics Versus African American Vernacular Versus Standard English
Below are a few good primer articles on Ebonics, what linguists and schools in America used to call what American blacks speak. That was changed to Black Vernacular English. Now that’s been changed to African American Vernacular English and is considered a dialect of English rather than a separate language. I remember years ago hearing…
What a Better World This Would Be
“Let the churches of the world [and the religions] stop trying to outstrip each other in the number of their adherents, the size of their sanctuary, the abundance of wealth. If we must compete, let us compete to see which can move toward the greatest attainment of truth, the greatest service of the poor, and…
Understanding Black America, Or Not
I cannot speak to the issue of Caribbean Hispanics versus central and South Americans and the root cause(s) of the differences we see, not like you can. But i can definitely see how the culture as you suggest is or can affect the societies and how they show up. I believe it’s like that for…
It’s Not Cancel Culture, It’s Course Correction
On July 4th 2020, on the 244th birthday celebration of the United States of America, Ed Hale delivered a speech entitled Its Not Cancel Culture, It’s Course Correction, wherein he explains that many of the recent societal shifts we are seeing in modern times are not part of a “cancel culture” mentality or conspiracy, but…