Race Matters

Welcome! I created this blog so I would have a place to rant about issues regarding race that disturb me. I'll sometimes just write about stuff--not necessarily negative--that's on my mind. Feel free to chime in. Thanks!

Friday, November 28, 2014

Mike Brown: Hands up? Too late!

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Mike Brown in better days The murder of Mike Brown has thrown me into deep emotional waters. I am drowning. I think about this tragedy...

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Nine-Eleven: The Aftermath

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Nine-Eleven Memorial In Lower Manhattan For the past few months, and especially the past week, the term Nine-Eleven has been on most...

Friday, April 29, 2011

Back To Africa: Why I Am Not Going

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I cannot go back to Africa, or China, or Germany, or Mexico. I have never visited any of those places. I was born in Jamaica, West I...

Monday, March 28, 2011

Treme: For Believers

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No hum-bow; don't know how. I should have gone to New Orleans for Mardi Gras Carnival in 2010. I fantasized relentlessly abo...

Friday, February 4, 2011

Time The Conqueror: Jackson Browne, Still Fierce

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I love music. I don’t know how I would manage without it being part my everyday routine. I am not a shopaholic. I am not a fashionista. I ...

Friday, January 7, 2011

Night Catches Us: We Should Embrace It

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Recently, I saw a wonderful film called “Night Catches Us” starring Anthony Mackie (“McReele”), Kerry Washington (“Race”), Wende...

Friday, November 5, 2010

Oscar and Johannes: Loss and Lies

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Oscar Grant is dead . As most see it, Oscar Grant, subdued with his hands behind his back and face down on the grou...

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Naimasturn: I love music. I play my guitar and piano regularly--not always well, but I play. It's therapeutic. I like to read non-fiction, and I appreciate a good documentary film. That sounds boring, but I'm not really not. I love to have fun, and I have an irreverent sense of humor. A few of my favorite stage plays are Awake and Sing! (Clifford Odets), Ruined (Lynn Nottage), Fences (August Wilson), Caroline, Or Change (Tony Kushner), and Our Town (Thornton Wilder). A few of my favorite musicals are The Lion King, Grey Gardens, In The Heights, and Fela!

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