I continuously read on Facebook what a racist country America is. Racism in the United States is so bad, we don’t even have a black president anymore. Roseanne Barr is a racist? Considering all this, I was a little surprised when I learned ABC canceled the TV show Roseanne over a tweet the show’s namesake, Roseanne Barr, made about Valerie …
Racism
Allow me to mansplain the fallacy of ‘white male privilege’
For a while now I’ve heard about something called white male privilege. As a white male who has never felt especially privileged, I never quite understood what the term was trying to refer to. I think I first heard about it when one of my favorite science fiction authors at the time, John Scalzi, wrote about it …
What does social justice even mean?
The term social justice is one of those terms that seems to have as many meanings as people advocating for it. I feel as though if I asked ten people what social justice means, I’d get ten different answers. That’s not good. When I look up the term in the dictionary, I get a definition …
Trump’s first State of the Union
I only watched a couple of minutes of last night’s State of the Union speech by President Donald J. Trump. Everything I needed to know about our union’s current state I learned in the first minute. Our president is Donald J. Trump, failed casino proprietor and reality TV personality. One look at the podium told me …
How Trump apologists are spinning what he said
Just when I thought Donald Trump finally dug himself into a racist hole with his golden racist shovel that even he cannot get out of, his supporters have begun trying to give the man a hand by obfuscating and conflating what he said. For the record this is what Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the …
GQ names Colin Kaepernick its ‘Citizen of the Year’
I just learned GQ is still a magazine. I also learned they have named former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick its Citizen of the Year. Good for them. I’m glad a print magazine is still able to remain viable in 2017. I also value good citizenship. I’m just not sure what world GQ is living in if …