Author Archives: William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

About William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Award-winning poet, playwright, and essayist. Author of three books of poetry, "Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present"; "Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats"; "The Black Feminine Mystique," and a novel, "Streets of Rage," written under his pen name Easy Waters. All four books are available on Amazon.com. Waters has over 25 years of experience in the criminal legal system. He is a change agent for a just society and a catalyst for change.

Toni Morrison Slays Moby Dick

Posted on April 28, 2025 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Toni Morrison writes that Moby Dick is “[a] complex, heaving, disorderly, profound text.” In my attempt, in my teens and twenties, to read as many “classics” as possible, I set out, like Ahab, to conquer the great white whale of … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Education, ezwwaters, James Baldwin, Politics, race | Tagged Aunt Jemima, book-review, books, Candace Owens, Herman Melville, horror, James Baldwin, January 6th, Kamala Harris, Many Thousands Gone, Moby Dick, reading, Supreme Clarence Thomas, Toni Morrison, Uncle Tom, Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The African American Presence in American Literature, W.E.B. DuBois, writing | Leave a comment

Exploring Book Bans: The Impact on Black Literature

Posted on February 3, 2025 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

On a recent summer trip to Virgina, where one could argue that it all began in 1619, that is, the enslavement of Africans in what would become the United States of America, I stopped at a Barnes & Noble. During … Continue reading →

Posted in Black History Month, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, ezwwaters, Lest We Forget, Martin Luther King, Politics, race, Religion, Slavery | Tagged 1619, 1619 Project, Alice Walker, Banned books, Barnes & Noble, Black Wall Street, Cesar Chavez, Florida, Kansas, Lorraine Hansberry, Martin Luther King Jr., Oklahoma, PEN America, Pennsylvania, Rosa Parks, Rosewood, Texas, The Birth of a Nation, The Clansman, The Fire Next Time, Thomas Dixon Jr., Through the Fire, Toni Morrison, Virginia | 1 Comment

Happy Black History Week!

Posted on February 2, 2025 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Uplifting my Black History Month Series Blog! Continue reading →

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Significance of Black History Month: A Deep Exploration

Posted on February 2, 2025 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Uplifting my Black History Series Blog. Next year will be the 100th Anniversary of what we know call Black History Month! Continue reading →

Posted in Black History Month, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Lest We Forget | Tagged 1619, 1880 U.S. Census, Barbados, Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Negro History Week, North Carolina, The Miseducation of the Negro | 3 Comments

Understanding MLK’s Legacy and America’s Complicated Past

Posted on January 19, 2025 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

The author’s political awakening began with the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, marking a profound shift in societal consciousness and the end of the Civil Rights Era. Reflections on history reveal a complex narrative dominated by white perspectives, with 1968 identified as a pivotal and traumatic year for America’s identity. Continue reading →

Posted in Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, ezwwaters, Growing Up, Lest We Forget, Martin Luther King, Politics, race, raising black boys, Relationships, Religion, Revolution, Streets of Rage | Tagged 1968, Black Power, Black Shadows and Through through the White Looking Glass, Civil Rights, Civil RIghts Era, history, MLK, MLK DSay, news, politics, RFK, richard nixon, The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America, The Great Society | 1 Comment

Sausage, Cabbage, and Black Bread

Posted on September 21, 2024 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

During my seven-hour flight to Frankfort, Germany, I watched “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” Based on the book, Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis, the movie is a fictionalized … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Black Nazi, Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII, Damien Lewis, Great Wars, Hitler, Lufthansa, Manifest Destiny, Marjorie Stewart, Operation Postmaster, Richard Heron, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, V-Day, White Man's Burden, white nationalism, Winston Churchill, WWII | 3 Comments

Rereading Richard Wright’s Black Boy

Posted on July 12, 2024 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

When I first read Richard Wright’s Black Boy more than 40 years ago when I was a teenager, little that I knew about literature, I thought the writing was superb. I was doing a little writing then and thought Wright … Continue reading →

Posted in being a teenager, Black patriotism, crime, Family, Fatherhood, Fathers, Growing Up, raising black boys, Relationships, Slavery | Tagged Black Boy, Confederacy, Confederate flag, Nashville TN, New South, North Carolina, Richard Wright, Segregation, Strange Fruit, Virginia, World War II | 1 Comment

A Fourth of July Day Lynching

Posted on July 5, 2024 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

For Norris Dendy 07.04.1933 (Clinton, South Carolina) To the Negro, what is the Fourth of July? A picnic celebration with family and friends Not a day to be beaten, not a day to die! On this celebration of Independence, still … Continue reading →

Posted in crime, ezwwaters, Family, Lest We Forget, Poetry, race | Tagged Clinton South Carolina, Independence Day, Norris Dendy, white supremacy | Leave a comment

You’re Once, Twice, 34 Times a “Felon”

Posted on June 12, 2024 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Recently, in “The President’s Brief” from The Marshall Project, Carroll Bogert penned an op-ed piece in The Washington Post. She wrote: Since Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies last week, gleeful headlines have sprouted across the media, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in crime, ezwwaters, Justice Chronicles, Politics, race, The New York Post | Tagged Carroll Bogert, Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions, Donald Trump Felon, Eddie Ellis, Injustice: First Felon President, Marshall Project, New York Posat, New York Times, NuLeadership on Urban Solutions, The Washington Post, Trump is a felon, U.S. Attorney General | Leave a comment

A Red Record Redux

Posted on May 30, 2024 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, in A Red Record (1895), about the bloody murders of Black people at the hands of white people, lists three “excuses” white people gave for the wholesale murder of Black people by whites. The excuses are: …the … Continue reading →

Posted in crime, ezwwaters, Lest We Forget, Martin Luther King, Politics, race, raising black boys, Relationships, Revolution, Slavery, Streets of Rage | Tagged A Red Record, Al Capone, American Fiction, Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Civil War, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative, Fifteenth Amendment, Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Ku Klux Klan, miscegenation, No Negro Domination, Reconstruction, Regulators, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rudy Giuliani, The Rape of the Negro Girl, Trump | Leave a comment

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