Pick your abomination November 15, 2016 I mentioned in my speech to the VFW on Veterans Day that I had just stopped briefly at the Brown V Board of Education… Continue Reading
Veterans Day 2016 November 12, 2016 These were given to me on Veteran’s Day when the Philip Billard VFW Post 1650 of Topeka, Kansas, honored George Robb on the 99th… Continue Reading
Nibbling at my priorities September 5, 2016 In no particular order: A. I got this email from my Buddy and answered it. I won’t include my reply because it points a… Continue Reading
Gorden Parks – a Remembrance June 4, 2016 The news is as full of Muhammed Ali’s death today as it was three weeks ago of the drug overdose death of Prince. Today… Continue Reading
Somebody’s Knocking on my Door June 29, 2015 After a week or more of blog inactivity but mental overload its, as always, hard to know where to begin. The School Board race?… Continue Reading
“I don’t want to go to school with no niggers.” October 18, 2014 That was what my new neighbor, little preschool Donna Beth Wylie, told the slightly older, about-to-be-in second grade me back in 1958 when I… Continue Reading
White Flight and Charters October 14, 2013 This story deserves a prologue so here goes. After Brown vs. Board of Education and later court rulings requiring segregated school districts public schools… Continue Reading
Sherman, Cynthia, Vickie, Ursala and my racial attitudes October 27, 2012 For those who are clueless about the significance of the last post a new AP poll prompted me to write further. Principal Sconiers is… Continue Reading
Inner City schools – the perfect storm March 11, 2010 About ten years ago I read, or started reading, the book by….on the plight of inner city schools. After two or three chapters I… Continue Reading
Inner City schools – the perfect storm March 11, 2010 About ten years ago I read, or started reading, the book by….on the plight of inner city schools. After two or three chapters I… Continue Reading
