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Who would you nominate for a US Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

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Nominations for the US Truth and Reconciliation Commission will be needed. A commission like this, used so successfully in South Africa and Germany, is something transactional justice lawyers and activists have been calling for as the only solution to the dilemma of racial unrest we are experiencing. These commissions are made up of stakeholders from […]

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Chief Obstacle to Racial Reconciliation is the Religious Right

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The obstacles to a successful US Truth and Reconciliation Commission in this country can be found everywhere. A commission such as this is an extra-judcial forum available to all stakeholders to face the past and find solutions, together, as one nation, healing the wounds and lasting effects of racism. It’s easy to find examples of these obstacles […]

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How To Get To Reconciliation

Introduction To commemorate July 4, yesterday, I wrote about the necessity for a US Truth & Reconciliation Commission (USTRC), an obvious concept that could someday “become the center to all the fireworks, BBQs, and white-centric glad-handing that takes place.” Included were the threads that promise the inevitability of a  U.S. Reconciliation and Truth Commission (USRTC), articulated […]

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July 4: The Lonely Road of Reconciliation 

July 4 can be a good time for reflection, and it seems that every year, we have had something to say for the holiday, such as: religion, real and fake; an explanation of why sexual freedom is the bedrock of all freedoms; and, a 7-minute video montage of street interviews asking, “What Does Sexual Freedom Mean […]

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Our Existential Crisis

Writing for Salon.com, Andrew O’Hehir points with clarity at the escalating stakes in our “existential crisis . . . the new civil war over the nature of reality.” Using The Civil War as a corollary, where both sides fought with conviction for “freedom” with completely different definitions of that word, Hehir writes, “We are an […]

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Almost no words

I’m so worried about several of my friends. We’re sitting here desperately waiting for the moment to come when an event or set of events will be the fusion of messenger and message necessary to create a multi-racial civilian movement fully intent on fixing what’s wrong with the US. Will this horrible week do it? […]

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Use your white skin to end racial violence and injustice

. We don’t need sensational videotapes to remind us that every day in this country black people are being gunned down and murdered. White folks in general, either through antipathy or chronic disconnect, have dispensed with people of color. Through their inaction, they say it’s okay for black communities to devolve into armed neighborhoods and […]

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More on the racist roots of our founding

When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications […]

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The Trail of Tears Continues

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There is no end to United States’ fatal exploitation of America’s indigenous peoples. First the wholesale genocide of 95% of native Americans, the holocaust at the founding of the USA. Indian schools that shattered families came next followed by the granting and taking away of promised land, and the concentration camps called reservations where healthcare and […]

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Thoughts on July 4 (Part 1 of 2)

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Independence Day has always been a mixture of emotions for me. While I believe that America may be the world’s best hope for universal human rights and peace, its antecedent history is permanently marred, always with an asterisk, because of the geneocide that wiped out 90% of First Peoples and an economy based on slavery, […]

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