I live in Henrico County which wraps around the city of Richmond, VA to the north and west. I live west of the city. A pretty small media market nationally in spite of being the capital for the state. What has happened here has not had much in the way Read more…
Federal forces have been removed from D.C. President Donald Trump tweeted that they were withdrawn but could return in an instant if necessary. He suggested that their job was done, that the number of protesters had dwindled and the violence stopped, that they had squashed the rebellion. As is typical Read more…
Yesterday I spoke about lines having been drawn. In Washington, D.C. on Friday, they were painted. Open warfare has broken out in the nation’s capital, not on the streets but between the White House and Mayor Muriel Bowser. She has led the effort to keep that from spilling into actual Read more…
It was a time of great strides and calamitous missteps. A time heroes became villains and villains would exhibit nobility. With that, it was a time of unknown resolution. Within our bubbles, everyone thinks this is “the time”. I do. I wrote about it yesterday, and I believe it. This Read more…
The first published quote from Donald J. Trump was recorded in 1973. He was responding in the N.Y. Times to the charges that his and his father’s real estate business had been guilty of racial bias. “We have never discriminated, and we never would.” They did a cash settlement out Read more…
It was a good day in Washington, D.C. Weather was nice, the protesters were out, but they were peacefully gathering. Heavy presence of law enforcement, but didn’t seem to be aggressive. There was mostly a balance to it. Until there wasn’t. Suddenly there was a massive operation to clear the Read more…
This has been a day of horror in dozens of cities across the country, with a few scenes of beauty to put them in stark relief. Between last night and today, law enforcement attacked. They used gas, pellets, clubs and fists to enforce their will on the assembled crowds. Much Read more…
Nothing is slowing down. No curfews are being respected. This senseless, arrogant murder and the tepid official response to it has revealed itself to be a final straw. Not only is the authority of the police no longer respected, the elected officials calling for people to stand down, respect curfew, Read more…
I’ve been here before. We thought we did something, made a difference, passed legislation, turned the tide. Any notion that any of that is true is privilege. Being black in the New World has always been illegal. Four hundred years of knowing the whole deal is stacked against you. It Read more…
Twitter has taken a baby step toward corporate responsibility, or more simply toward decency. As a company they did not take the fully mature step of banning the President from the platform for disseminating deceitful information, but they did put an addendum to his tweets pointing out their deceptions complete Read more…