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Tag Archives: Great Society
Journey Through Crime, Justice & Literature, Part III
Continued… (If you missed the second installment, then click here: Journey Through Crime, Justice & Literature, Part II) The modern War on Crime, as we know it, was inaugurated with Richard Nixon’s campaign for the presidency in 1968. Nixon declared … Continue reading
Posted in Justice Chronicles, Literature & Cultural Criticism, Politics & Public Affairs
Tagged Abel Meeropol, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexis de Tocqueville, Attica Correctional Facility, Attica Rebellion, Billie Holiday, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Class, De Profundis, Democracy in America, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Great Society, Gustave De Beaumont, Hudson Valley Black Press, hyperincarceration, Loic Wacquant, Medellin Cartel, Michelle Alexander, Nelson Rockefeller, News on a Kidnapping, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Oscar Wilde, prison industrial complex, race, revanchist America, Reynold's Magazine, Richard Nixon, Strange Fruit, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Four Zoas, The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, The House of the Dead, The New Jim Crow, The United States Penitentiary System and its Application in France, war on crime, War on Drugs, Watergate, William Blake
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Understanding MLK’s Legacy and America’s Complicated Past
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 Politics & Public Affairs, Religion, Streets of Rage
Tagged 1968, Black Power, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Era, Great Society, Growing Up, history, Martin Luther King Jr., news, politics, raising black boys, Relationships, Richard Nixon, Robert F. Kennedy, The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America
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The Pledge of Allegiance, Little White Lies, and All that Jazz!
It has been more than 50 years since I was in elementary school in the New York City public school system, yet I remember, word for word, the “Pledge of Allegiance.” At this time, I thought nothing of it, but … Continue reading
Posted in Justice Chronicles, Politics & Public Affairs, Race, History & American Society, Streets of Rage
Tagged 13th Amendment, Atomic Bomb, Black Codes, Black Power, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Camelot, Confederate States of America, Critical Race Theory, Culture Wars, Great Society, Growing Up, Hiroshima, internment of Japanese Americans, James Brown, John F. Kennedy, Little White Lies, Lyndon B. Johnson, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Nagasaki, patriotism, Pledge of Allegiance, raising black boys, Richard Nixon, Robert F. Kennedy, Segregation, Slave Codes, Slavery, urban decay, war on crime, World War II
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PROSECUTORS, POLICE-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS, THE CONSTITUTION, THE KKK, POSSES, AND THE RULE OF LAW
I’ve been thinking about when state prosecutors fail to do their jobs in police-involved killings of unarmed individuals, that is, fail to get indictments – though we all know, those of us who have studied the criminal criminal justice system, … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice & Punishment, Justice Chronicles, Politics & Public Affairs
Tagged 1955 Mississippi, a prosecutor can get a ham sandwich indicted, Eric Garner, Ferguson Missouri, Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Great Society, Hayes-Tilden Compromise, Ku Klux Klan, law and order, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Brown, murder, NYC, NYPD, police involved shooting, posses, prosecutors, Richard Nixon, rule of law, runaway slaves, Slavery, Sol Wachtler, Staten Island, The Compromise of 1850, U.S. Constitution
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Excerpt from my book, “Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembering Things Past and Present”
From George Washington to George Bush. From the birth of a nation to a kinder, gentler nation. From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton. From Democratic Republicanism to the New Democrats. From honest Abe to tricky Dick to Slick Willie. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics & Public Affairs
Tagged Bill Clinton, Black Patriotism, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Democratic Republicanism, dialogue on race, Dixiecrats, Do Nothing Party, Freedom Now Party, George H.W. Bush, George Washington, Grand Old Party, Great Society, Honest Abe, Jim Crow, John F. Kennedy, melting pot, multiculturalism, New Covenant, New Deal Democrats, New Democrats, Police State, public works, Radical Republicanism, Rainbow Coalition, Reaganism, Reconstruction, Roosevelt, Slavery, Slick Willie, Thomas Jefferson, trickle-down economics, Tricky Dick, Welfare state
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William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters 