Words Matter for Our Progress

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary December 13, 2011 By Perry Redd   So the story goes: “we’ve made great strides in American race relations.  We’re in a post-racial society.”  I, of course, don’t go for that one.  As a matter of fact, I believe we’re rapidly digressing from the progress [...]

Depiction of Contradiction

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary October 4, 2011 By Perry Redd This past week, the news cycle has been fast and furious.  If you’ve blinked, then you’ve missed something.  Not necessarily the stories, but the truth.  The actors have said one thing, then have done another.  They’ve stood on principle—or [...]

How to Honor King

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary August 30, 2011 By Perry Redd The latest rift in America isn’t the proper amount to cut from the nation’s budget, nor is it the Tea Party’s attack on anyone who isn’t them.  The latest rift is between the very people who need not be [...]

Thieves In the Temple

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary July 12, 2011 By Perry Redd There’s a constituency of Americans who are not being served by their elected leaders with the degree of integrity vowed to by those leaders. I’d like to think that I can pin this occurrence down to my hometown, but unfortunately, [...]

Immigration In Your Back Yard

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary July 5, 2011 By Perry Redd What are you all going to do when you find that the thing you hate is in your back yard? What I’ve come to learn is that with conservative ideology, many of the social and economic positions taken, like [...]

Not Unbelievable

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary June 21, 2011 By Perry Redd My country is corrupt.  I posit that it is complicit in the murder and annihilation of my race of people.  I believe they have been inventing ngenious, covert ways to undermine population growth of people of color who may [...]

The Tale of One City

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary June 7, 2011 By Perry Redd   I am witnessing an ethnic cleansing as sure as I am alive.  I’ve read about the native American, the Jews of eastern Europe and apartheid South Africa.    I’ve seen Kosovo, Myanmar and Tibet in my lifetime.  I see [...]

Who Speaks for God

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary April 19, 2011 By Perry Redd There are some things that simply need to change.  There are others that need to change now!  The most recent disaster making its way through the southern and mid-western United States, gives me reason to demand that all holy-people [...]

The Great Defender of Fox Values

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary April 7, 2011 By Perry Redd What ‘cha gonna do with him?  He’s the analyst you don’t want to hate, but he makes it so damned hard not to!  Only the few, the proud, the Fox-inians can understand him.  Why?  Because he says the things [...]

Do You Feel American?

The Other Side of the Tracks: A Socially Speaking commentary February 15, 2010 By Perry Redd I have to ask myself, like any other American, do I feel American?  One thing I know, is that if I voice that I don’t, I may get attacked by the Right as not being so.  So I better [...]