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The Pledge of Allegiance, Little White Lies, and All that Jazz!

Posted on March 7, 2023 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

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 Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, Growing Up, John F. Kennedy, Justice Chronicles, Lest We Forget, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Patriotism, Politics, raising black boys, Revolution, Slavery, Streets of Rage, urban decay, Urban Impact | Tagged Atomic Bomb, Black Codes, Black Power, Camelot, Confederate States of America, Critical Race Theory, Culture Wars, Great Society, Hiroshima, internment of Japanese Americans, James Brown, JFK, LBJ, Little White Lies, MLK, Nagasaki, Pledge of Allegiance, RFK, richard nixon, Segregation, Slave Codes, Slavery, Thirteenth Amendment, war on crime, World War II | Leave a comment

The South Won the War of Northern Aggression?

Posted on June 13, 2020 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Imagine a visitor from another planet, say Mars, is touring the Southern states and is in modern day Virginia. The Martian makes its way to Jamestown, which he finds both interesting, and puzzling. It has familiarized itself with 200 years … Continue reading →

Posted in race, Slavery, Streets of Rage | Tagged 1619, BlackLivesMatter, Civil War, CNN, Confederacy, Confederate Monuments, Confederate States of America, Confederate Way, CSA, General Douglas MacArthur, Robert E. Lee, War of Northern Aggression, World War I, World War II | Leave a comment

The Fires This Time

Posted on June 5, 2020 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Last year, 2019, we marked 400 years since Africans were brought to Virginia and America’s “peculiar institution” took root. Since then, in the annals of American history, there has been systematic oppression and brutality against the descendants of Africans in … Continue reading →

Posted in being a teenager, Black patriotism, James Baldwin, Justice Chronicles, juveniles, Lest We Forget, Martin Luther King, police involved shooting, police-involved killing, Politics, race, raising black boys, Relationships, Revolution, Slavery, Streets of Rage | Tagged "If We Must Die", 1619-2019, 1919 Race Riots, 1960s, America's Original Sin, Barbados, Beaumont, Burn baby burn!, Decisive Decade, Dr. King, Ellis Island, MLK, North Carolina, Original Sin, Panama, Panama Canal, peculiar institution, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The Fires This Time, Virginia, World War I, World War II | Leave a comment

The Massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church: A Year Later — Lest We Forget!

Posted on June 22, 2016 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Recently I read a piece in the AARP Bulletin, the June 2016 issue, on the Charleston Massacre: A Year Later, “The Long Road to Forgiveness.” As a student of history, I almost always think that we don’t remember what we … Continue reading →

Posted in crime, ezwwaters, Martin Luther King, Uncategorized | Tagged AARP Bulletin, African Methodist Episcopal Churches, AME, Black Freedom, Brooklyn, Charleston Massacre, Denmark Vesey, Dylann Roof, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Gabriel Prosser, Hasidim, James Michener, Jr., Nat Turner, Rev. Betty Deas Clark, Rev. Martin Luther King, The Black Church, The Final Solution, The Holocaust, The Source, Violence against the Black Church, violence in American history, World War II | Leave a comment

REVIEW OF “JAILHOUSE JOURNALISM: THE FOURTH ESTATE BEHIND BARS”

Posted on July 13, 2014 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Not much has been written about the history of the prison press. Indeed, until now, according to James McGrath Morris, the author of Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars, the only book was The Penal Press by Russell Baird. … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice Chronicles, Life Sentences, Reentry, Uncategorized | Tagged Alfred Andersch, Billy Sinclair, Board of Pardons, Charles Chapin, concentration camps, Der Ruf, Erle Stanley Gardner, Forlorn Hope, Fort Philip Jearney, Frank Moore, free press, Great Red Scare, Gruppe 47, Hans Werner Richter, Idea Factory, Industrial Workers of theWorld, Iowa State Penitentiary, Jailhouse Jurnalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars, James McGrath Morris, Japanese-Americans, Jesse James Gang, Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Karl Arndt, Leaves from a Lifer's Notebook, Mumia Abu-Jamal, New York's Evening World, Ole Lindquist, Pell v. Procunier, postward Germany, POWs, Presidio, Prisoner of War Special Projects Division, Procunier v. Martinez, reeducate, Relocation Camps, Russell Baird, Saturday Review, Sing Sing, The Angolite, The Farm, The Penal Press, Thornburg v. Abbott, Tom Runyon, Turner v. Safley, Wilbert Rideau, William Keteltas, Wobblies, World War II, Younger Brothers | Leave a comment

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Tag Archives: World War II

The Pledge of Allegiance, Little White Lies, and All that Jazz!

The South Won the War of Northern Aggression?

The Fires This Time

The Massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church: A Year Later — Lest We Forget!

REVIEW OF “JAILHOUSE JOURNALISM: THE FOURTH ESTATE BEHIND BARS”

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