sociology
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Life Is Amazing When You Think About It
Life is amazing when you think about it. It is not an object that can be contained. It is not a system that can be controlled, and it is not the weather that can be forecast with great certainty, days, and weeks in advance. And its author or creator is still up for debate but Continue reading
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We Have Been Asked To Remove Our Mask
I was asked to join a panelist of speakers to discuss what it means to metaphorically remove our mask in the workplace, to expose what really matters most to us during this time of social injustice and heightened unrest in our everyday lives. Because they can only see and perceive what we present to them Continue reading
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Deliver Us From The Brokenness, Sin, And Shame Of Humanity
Just as I am, uncut, unplugged and unplanned, I enter the house of mercy, house of prayer and the house of Bethel, to call on the covenant name of our God–Yahweh. For he says, if we continually ask, continually seek, and continually knock, we will be given our answer, find our way and our doors Continue reading
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Courage On The Frontlines
As the death toll of souls swell, surge, and soar well beyond belief, our best and brightest in the mighty Mecca of medicine are frantically scouring, scavenging and scraping to gather all remedies and cocktails as serum to solution, subside and stem Coronavirus’ unstoppable stampede’s deathblow. Furthermore, there is talk about the inescapable “rolling apex” Continue reading
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It All Happened In Black
The word Black has been misused and abused by definition and design for centuries in the Western World. We now find ourselves trying to be supersensitive and culturally aware of how it impacts black people and people of color. This really speaks to the depth and degree of psychological damage caused by corrupting the pure Continue reading
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
We ask the LORD for our daily bread and we cannot eat for there is no room inside. As we are saturated, soaked and sated by silt, sediments carried by those who dwell outside the covenant community in secular, social and libertine streams of life. We sit in the seat of sedition, walk in the Continue reading
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We Are More Than This
While we as humans continue to live in this world, there will always exist a great need to improve race relations in the world at large. Let us be vigilant in our efforts to collaborate, cooperate and exercise and employ the legal process to legislate change at the local, state and federal government. Conversely, in Continue reading
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Red, White and Blue
With the recent ongoing discourse regarding standing while America’s National Anthem is sung and respect for her flag, it reminded me of my poetic twist or perspective I had of the flag back in September of 2000. As we seem to forget that America’s National Anthem did not always stand for us and her flag Continue reading
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The Hereditary Dividing Walls of Hate and Hostility Must Come Down
Honestly, I have been struggling with President Donald J. Trump’s reference to our people group as “Sons of dogs” several weeks ago. They say, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. Well, the name calling hurt me deeply and prompted my thoughts written below. “The hereditary dividing walls of Continue reading
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Standup! Hands up!
The intrepid, indomitable and eternal kindred spirit of freedom and justice will always propel the souls of impoverished peoples in every nation and generation around the world to create unrest until absolute truth, equality and pursuit of life and liberty are realized by all. Last week we witnessed in Baltimore Maryland seemingly a marginalized group Continue reading
Spoken word by the spiritual poet 