Man as a nat­ural resource was con­sid­ered in the same terms as iron and tim­ber. Edu­ca­tion was to shape and mold raw human­ity into the coop­er­a­tive and spe­cial­ized cog.

An email tete’-a-tete’ between myself and some fam­ily mem­bers. I received an email that began as a for­ward from some­one else regard­ing Barak Obama ema­ci­at­ing the mil­i­tary and turn­ing Amer­ica into a third-rate nation. My reply to that email and the devolv­ing, or evolv­ing, rhetoric which ensued between myself and a few fam­ily mem­bers ended […]

Obama, my nigga’! I respect your feigned attempt at illus­trat­ing the racial divide that has been eat­ing away at this country’s cul­tural psy­che and that which is now cul­mi­nat­ing with the tri­an­gu­la­tion of hate, nation­al­ism, and racism fed by the fuel of “ille­gal immi­gra­tion” tossed capri­ciously upon the smol­der­ing heap of racial dis­cord. You may believe […]