Category Archives: america

4 – 4 Superbowl 2010 Colts Versus Saints

February 11, 2024 – 8:45 am

Since The First AFL–NFL World Championship Game was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum betweeen the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs, the Super Bowl has reigned as America’s premier sporting event. In 2010 thee point spread favored the Indianapolis Colts AFC champs, but my heart hung with New […]

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Tar In The Blood

February 5, 2024 – 9:35 am

My father’s side of the family traveled to the New World on the the Mayflower. My antecedents were Howlands. A young indentured servant, John Howland, had been washed overboard mid-Atlantic and somehow had grabbed a trailing lanyard to haul himself to the safety of the Mayflower. Centuries later my Irish Nana had sailed on a […]

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The Freedom Of The Knee

February 3, 2024 – 7:58 am

During the National Anthem of a 2016 pre-season NFL game, 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick knelt on the sidelines. He later stated to the Press, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football […]

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Kiss My Black Ass

February 1, 2024 – 7:36 pm

Election night 2008 had people celebrating in the streets. The desire for change had swept the GOP from the White House and Congress. The effects of Obama’s victory over the Old White Guy reached into the Deep South and this week the town of Alligator, Alabama ousted its white mayor in favor of a black […]

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Slavery 101

February 1, 2024 – 11:07 am

Crackers are called ‘Crackers’ for the crack of the whip. “Not all southerners were slave owners.” Maybe not, but slavery was the GM of the South. The greatest source of labor in Dixie and southerners rented slaves at planting and harvest time, treating the Africans worse than rented mules. Men and women were chained hand […]

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