Free to Navel Gaze
Discoveries by E. Marmer
admin | Free to Navel Gaze House Resolution 489 – a condemnation of Donald Trump’s disgusting statement embracing the notion that new Americans aren’t real Americans, and should “go back” to their old countries if they dare have concerns about our SHARED American government and society – will be...
This is a timely and insightful essay looking back at the values portrayed in the John Hughes movies of the 80’s, and comparing them to changing values in the age of Me Too. And the fact that it was written by Molly Ringwald, the actress whose character in The...
Mass murders are becoming a depressingly familiar routine in the United States- we can now expect to experience a media grabbing shooting about once a month. And the frequency can only increase as future cohorts of copycat killers are spawned by the seductive opportunity to temporarily gain the spotlight.
Amidst the anguish and heartbreak felt by the victims’ families, there are always two haunting questions. What motivates someone to kill strangers wholesale in a seemingly senseless way? And what, if anything, can we do to stop these tragedies from recurring?
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Can we all just finally get it? As this article from Upworthy shows, African Americans have been an inextricable and important part of the entire post-Columbus American experience almost from its very inception. Indeed, if generational presence here is the measure, they are more “American” than many others who are descended from...
Jon Comulada How is it that people still don’t get this? If you are a white American living in a fairly homogeneously white community it is shamefully easy for you to remain clueless that there are two very different Americas: one for white Americans and one for black Americans. This has been true...
If you watch this all the way to the end, you will understand why there is hope for us as a species.
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