Circumcising🍆 little boys - mutilation?

Harriet Tubman

Word has come down that the redesign of the $20 dollar bill will not feature the great freedom fighter Harriet Tubman. Treasury secretary Mnuchin announced that today. Is anyone really surprised that Trump would do this act. After all, he announced before he became President that putting her on the currency was too politically correct. Trump is an all-time bastard, bone-deep bigot and narcissist beyond compare. Praying every day that this nightmare will end soon for all of us - lighting candles and placing spells on this creature in the Oval Office.

Chris Albertson

Former WBAI general manager and Bessie Smith biographer passed away in April - I bring his name up because he was a noted jazz historian and author and made a distinct contribution to the understanding of jazz music. In recent years, however, he used his time to create blogs critiquing the former station he used to manage. He was very critical of the current version of WBAI radio and some of the producers and staff. Some of his comments were on point and correct, but some of his observations were very racist and bigoted - in particular, his drawings and /or pictures of staff and producers reminded one of a minstrel show from years ago. I don't know if he became embittered or had a bad experience @ a point in time, but his comments and visuals from that blog indicted a person with a sour heart. I too, was the recipient of his nasty and unfair comments. He claimed to have been friends with the late great Gil Noble - having met Gil on number of occasions, I would guess that Gil would not be pleased.

Blogging

Blogs are a tough thing to maintain - initially you get very excited, then, considering the time & effort it takes to maintain, one loses interest and it fades away.... i hope to maintain some degree of regularity here and keep you informed on the issues of the day. I am a former radio host on WBAI radio - I had a show there for exactly 25 years. I ended the show in 2014 when it became untenable and impractical to continue producing the show. I enjoyed every minute of hosting the show - the good, the bad and the ugly. I learned a lifetime of lessons and I am grateful. I received a graduate level course in politics, particularly leftist, progressive politics/ I learned that when you change your mind, your friends and acquaintances change rapidly too. We are, without question, deeply divided in this country, but it has been this way for a long time. the common good is very uncommon these days. The common good, like common sense apparently died a long time ago - we are in need of a resurrection - Obeah Man needed immediately.