Posted by Kevin Robinson on August 27, 2021 · Leave a Comment
While making a business call, I reached the so-called self adulated gatekeeper, the customer service representative (operator). After posing my question in my proudly Midwestern dialect, they might have picked up something in my voice that convinced them they are speaking to an African American. They shot back in a rather loud and somewhat rude … Continue reading →
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Posted by Kevin Robinson on September 25, 2020 · 3 Comments
Its drooping boughs offer seclusion and shade in fields and near rivers and ponds. It’s no surprise that these trees are often prized specimen in yards or long-time friends of people who trek in the wild places of the world. How to Cure a Sick Weeping Willow By Doug Johnson Updated November 05, 2019 Wind … Continue reading →
Category A Nation Divided, Aunt Jemima, Black Lives Matter, building the bridge, COVID 19, IF, If not now, If Not now the When?, Light a Candle, Race, Strike A Chord, Strike a Match, Strike a Nerve, Systemic Racism, The Human Diaspora, Trayvon Martin, Uncategorized, white privilege timeline, xenophobia · Tagged with Black Lives Matter, Breonna Taylor, cytokine storm, Racial Justice, Racism is a Public Healthcare Crisis, Social Determinants of Health, Stress, Voting Rights, Weathering, white privilege, white supremacy
Posted by Kevin Robinson on September 18, 2020 · Leave a Comment
A look up reveals a mysterious haze of the ordinarily clear blue early Autumn sky. The fires of western states expand a canopy of smoke over the nation. America is literally on fire, as the pathways of history blur in the face of an uncertain future fueled by an uncompleted past. Climate change and pestilence … Continue reading →
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Posted by Kevin Robinson on August 6, 2020 · 2 Comments
Don’t mistake this writing as an indictment of one person, but more of an open assessment of America. Those old ghosts of the past hidden under white hoods had found new homes under the rooftops of exurban homes, the cornfields of rural America, churches clothed in Norman Rockwell’s America, and in the xenophobic fear of “the others.”
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Posted by Kevin Robinson on July 17, 2020 · Leave a Comment
The cross is excepted as a symbol of peace and reconciliation, regardless of one’s level of belief in it. It personifies the language of love. The Eagle is a symbol that identifies America. America exists as a grand experiment forged out of abstract thought in a quest for a more perfect union.
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Posted by Kevin Robinson on February 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment
One night, when everyone was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. Mathew 13:25 Good News Translation (GNT) While asleep, have our voices become silent to the cries of the Disenfranchised. Are we too mesmerized by the voices of hyperbole? Do we understand the real realities of Americans who … Continue reading →
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Posted by Kevin Robinson on July 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The California Highway Patrol says that it is investigating footage posted on YouTube that shows a policeman repeatedly punching the face and head of a prostrate woman. Video shows him straddling the woman and hitting her at least 11 times. Police say that the woman needed to be restrained and was endangering herself and motorists … Continue reading →
Category A Nation Divided, imagery in society, In God We Trust, Light a Candle, Lost Horizon, massive ethnic change, Race and Christian Witness, Roots, Rumors, Shadow Self, Social Justice, Strike a Nerve · Tagged with Accord1, american anthropological association, Building the Bridge Together, Cultural Intelligence, current-events, Diversity, Grandmaster Flash, harmonious existence, Harmony, my brother's keeper, Racial Profiling, Unity, unity in christ
Posted by Kevin Robinson on October 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment
In this year of what some view as one of our most important elections, the level of polarization has risen to volatile levels. Caught in the middle of this, are the fragile interactions between ethnic groups. As with any chemical compound under stress and decomposition of change, this great American experiment begins to expose dangerous elements. … Continue reading →
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