how do we define A RACIST? AND WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT one?

From my childhood growing up in a town bordering largely African American communities of East Orange and Newark, NJ to my adult life in Asbury Park, NJ and now Los Angeles, I have had a front row seat to myriad incidents of overt racism.

CultureDoug ForbesDecember 5, 2018racism, KKK, trump white supremacist, charlottesville, neo-nazisComment

Pledge of Allegiance

Michael Brown is dead. And many other young black men with their hands up. This is the one truth upon which we can all agree without prejudice. Beyond this, they are neither civil rights legacies nor guilty of this or that. They are simply dead.

CultureDoug ForbesMarch 7, 2018Michael Brown, Pledge of Allegiance, food insecurity, poverty, healthcare, u.s. education, hate groups, gun violence, guns, NSA, racism, wage equality, wage disparity, police violence, police brutalityComment