New Year Doesn’t Mean New Attitudes

A new year brings a false sense of “newness” that we’ve grown accustomed to in American culture.  That’s something shared, whether Black or white.  It’s one of the few culture-centric values that has no division.  Then there’s criminal justice; the divide is wide and partially weighted in terms of pro and con.  If you’re white, […]

What Veterans Day Leaves Out

The Other Side of the Tracks Yesterday was yet another Veterans Day.  The many reminders via mainstream American media floated on every conceivable thoroughfare.  Whether television—public or cable—radio, internet or printed media, honoring America’s fighting men and women was the order of the day.  For reasons untold, I just couldn’t feel it.  So now, I’ll […]

Justice Not Applicable

The Other Side of the Tracks A Socially Speaking commentary by Perry Redd What I want is for people to go to jail…why?  Because “corporations are people, my friend.”  Oh, now you’ve got selective amnesia.  When Mitt Romney said that during the 2012 presidential election, you were all for the new mantra for capitalism.  So […]

Banning Brotherhood

“The Other Side of the Tracks”  A Socially Speaking commentary by Perry Redd The news coming out of Africa has been amazingly American lately.  I’d say, “their news is our news,” and I wonder why?  I understood Afghanistan and Iraq’s daily affairs prevailing on our television screens since we invaded and occupied them, but why […]