They Call Me Cookie to My Face

  I'm not a huge Candace Owens fan. To be honest, I barely know who she is. She only seems to get brought to my attention when she says something someone with a large platform doesn't like. I'm not sure what she said and I'm not going to dig for it right now.  What really caught my interest is another knife in the back of civil rights and justice.  Every time something happens to a member of the Jewish community as a whole, there is a general consensus that nothing but sympathy or empathy should be felt and nothing given but support.  The obvious bias remains the elephant in the room. That elephant shouldn't be ignored.  There is a DOCUMENTED history of the torture, harassment, and terrorization of people of color.  I'm not just referring to the decades of lynching, bombings, and arson.  There is also the propaganda and scholarly contributions to various sciences to consider. This version of "DEATH CON 3" is a historical fact and an ongoing string of w...

  I have learned to embrace the fact that I am aging. In a population where apparently 1/3 of Americans will have some sort of cancer in their lifetime, I consider myself lucky. I am approaching 40. I am healthy.  But I'm noticing that quite a few people that I have encountered in my life that thought that "grimey" was the way to be are now humbled by their own flesh but not as much as they were driven by it.  Now that they are physically incapable of bullying and taking advantage of others, they want to preach about what matters in life and perseverance.  I wonder if they ever think about the people they put through hell on their journey to cancer town.  Do they wonder what realizations their victims had to come to in order to persevere? Cancer truly does not discriminate. It attacks the kind, the unfortunate, the brave, and the cowardly.  I do, as most people, discriminate when it comes to whom I express empathy for.  I do not feel sorry for people w...