How to be Anti-racist

stop racism on a map of America

Racism is a real problem in our society. The sad truth is that there are people who believe it’s okay to treat people differently based on their race. If you’re like me and see this as wrong, it’s important that we each do what we can to help make things better — even if it …

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Governor LePage and White Reality

It’s been almost five months since I last wrote about Maine’s bombastic governor, Paul LePage, who suffers from several chronic health conditions, ignorance and verbal diarrhea being chief among them. Just when I had started to forget that he was our dishonorable governor, he opened his pie hole and boy, was it a doozy! To …

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Change requires courage or how do we move forward as a nation?

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”– James Baldwin Change requires courage and after the events of the past week in the United States, it is abundantly clear that America needs to make some lifesaving changes for the sake of her future and citizens. We …

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