Race and resistance

chess board in shadowy room (black and white image)

Between 2014 and 2020, I attended a number of protests in Boston; Portland, Maine; and Chicago. Of all the protests that I attended during that time, there are two in particular that I still remember in vivid detail. One was in Boston in 2017, in the aftermath of the Charlottesville white nationalist rally that left …

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The cruelty is the point

A distorted and fractured view of a face, reality itself twisted in an image of glowing blue

“And now, they are coming for your Social Security money. They want your f*cking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.” — George Carlin It has long been said that the late comedian George Carlin was a prophet when it came to matters of …

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