Race: who taught you to hate?

5 years ago

“End racism.” We hear the cry daily, but how? Where does racism begin? We are not born with it. Are…

Memory: The black Red Tails were America’s best

5 years ago

In conjunction with Juneteenth, I reprise a column that ran in the Philadelphia Daily News in May 2008. It was…

A word about racist images

5 years ago

Are all these images racist? Which ones? Why? Let me say at the start that Quaker Oats, which owns Aunt…

What to do with Parkway homeless

5 years ago

Remember Rachel Canning? She was the New Jersey 18-year-old who moved out of her parents home in 2014, then sued…

Christopher Columbus: Put him on trial

5 years ago

Christopher Columbus says, “Don’ta trust you mayor.” He means Mayor Gutless, who has punted the issue of the statue of…

A racial word to the wise

5 years ago

I don’t know if the spasm we are living through is more like the French Revolution, or Communist China’s Cultural…

The low down on Philly cops

5 years ago

This will end my trilogy about police, with local reporting I have done on the Philadelphia Police Department, which has…

Let’s have an honor code for cops

5 years ago

Police are under scrutiny, which is nothing new for the Philadelphia Police Department, although the bug collection known as City…

Why I like cops

5 years ago

I admit it. That headline, which once would have tasted as bland as yogurt,  has assumed the aura of racism,…

Looney Left, yes, wants to abolish police

5 years ago

When I wrote about defunding police last week, I jumped on it fast because I thought an idea that insane…