Tag Archives: America

Long Hot Summer

by toritto Do you think we’d see the light if sunshine cost the wealthy something or would we live in blackest night outside the gates and out of sight while stepping over homeless vets, passing the line at the free … Continue reading

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Grandma’s Windows

Moonlight never shined across her bed of dark pecan through the small minded windows of America. No view of stars or sunny sky no ever changing blue or gray; A glass pane cordoning the outside from the in; Windows that … Continue reading

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Indiana, Eugenics and Fascism

Indiana State Prison, Jeffersonville, 1912 Those Socialists were wrong Poverty is not a social condition. People do not become criminals as a product of social and economic conditions. They are born that way. People are poor and/or criminal because they are genetically … Continue reading

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On Ferguson

  . W. E. B. Dubois .   “I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out … Continue reading

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