Listening to Digable Planets and feeling peace like that…
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Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
A section containing all blog entries, articles and commentaries. Many of these entries were imported from my earlier Blogspot, MovableType and WordPress blogs. In addition, political commentary, articles and essays written for publication and coursework can be found here. Much of the commentary in this section was published in The Multiracial Activist, The Abolitionist Examiner, The Good Men Project and Interracial Voice. Many essays in this section were written for coursework at the American Military University.
When Is The Right Time To Leave A Job
Talking with a colleague about when it is the right time to leave a job got me thinking about why I’ve left jobs in the past. My first gig out […]
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Music Break: Smokey Robinson
The personification of smooth.
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New Book Release: Really Bad Poetry from the Eighties and Nineties
So, I finally did what I said I was going to do so many years ago. I put out a collection of my early poetry. I have only been talking […]
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General Officers Letter to U.S. Presidential Candidates re: Torture
GENERAL CHARLES C. KRULAK, USMC (RET.) GENERAL DAVID M. MADDOX, USA (RET.) GENERAL MERRILL A. MCPEAK, USAF (RET.) GENERAL BARRY MCCAFFREY, USA (RET.) VICE ADMIRAL RICHARD H. CARMONA, USPHS (RET.) […]
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Strength Comes With Struggle
I have been told more than once that I have a LOT of patience and skill in dealing with difficult people. Oh, you seriously have no idea how I acquired […]
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Advocacy Scars…
I’ve been involved with civil liberties advocacy for over 20 years. I actually started in a limited manner while on active duty, when I wrote my Congressional delegation in my […]
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Statement on Life and Death of Julian Bond
The Multiracial Activist Statement on Life and Death of Julian Bond I had a lot of respect for this man, even while disagreeing vehemently with the NAACP’s utterly […]
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Entitlement Vs. Earning (or Chevrons Do Not = Competence)
Of course the flip side of this meme are veterans who arrogantly believe that their DD-214 ENTITLES them to any job they so desire, regardless of qualifications, skills and […]
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Performance Reviews Are Not Performing Well
Vauhini Vara, writing for The New Yorker, on “The Push Against Performance Reviews“: “…the annual performance review has been falling out of favor in some quarters. Microsoft and Gap […]
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