Just Sayin

  The Trumplican Party wanting to do away with DEI, and the so called "Critical Race Theory." We have racism and discrimination in this country from both the majority, and the minority. The only to eradicate racism is through education. With education comes understanding. With understanding comes empathy, and with empathy comes a tolerance of the rights of others. This from both sides. The liberals are guilty of it, with the tearing down the memorials, of the Confederacy. That is a a period we would, as Americans, like to forget. But we can't. It is part of our history. A history that we have changed, not eradicated, but changed for the better. We need to teach that. The Trumplicans want to whitewash the entire history, so as not to make the white children feel and about their race. White children need to know that some of their ancestors were bad, but some of them weren't. Because some were bad, doesn't mean they are bad. The white children need to know that whi...

  Today Dr. Jay Sheridan passed from this life to the next. I would like now to stop and reflect about the profound affect Doc had on me as an angry young man, just starting out in this world. I am a student of Dr. Sheridan’s; the class of 1983. It is because of Dr. Jay Sheridan, that I write to this day. I would like to take this time to inform you of the influence that you had in my life. I had a hard bringing up, mostly due to my own temperament and arrogance. I did not start writing until I was about 16, for a girl, and after an unfortunate encounter with the sun. It was not until my senior year at Yuma High did I show anyone. I turned one in to you; a poem called The Wind that Whistles. It was one of the first I wrote. You validated what I hadn’t realized I could do, and that is write. You made me believe that I could actually get a thought across to another in words. I have written some 250 or 300 poems since. It was that beginning that gave me the confidence to go on writing...