The Demise of Democracy.
Dissent is an intrinsic right and moral obligation, whether we do so during the national anthem or the long interim in anticipation of the descent of real democracy.
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The Call to Greatness.
Few people, however, truly fail if they truly answered the call to greatness. Neither are they as unfortunate as their circumstances suggest.
The Need to Restore Real Democracy.
Those who excel under this system deny the decline of democracy. Those who don’t are embittered. Hence the decline of optimism. Hence the need to restore real democracy.
Society On The Precipice: Hypocrisy of Law As Morality.
Consider America’s most moral codes: the Constitution and the Declaration. Rightly read, they inspire a sense of morality that hallows liberty. When read solely for their legal value, we violate virtue and venerate vice because morality sustains liberty and strengthens democracy.
This Is How Love Works.
We owe it to ourselves and to our collective consciousness to seek to understand rather than deride. To seek to love rather than to hate.
The American Mind.
The American Mind readily invokes God as a sedative, but only when visited by national disaster. Otherwise, it claims diplomatic immunity from what God suggests and morality requires.
On Repeat: Love Trumps Hate.
I never heard a racial slur in my house growing up, and I know that if I am ever blessed with children, they will never hear any slurs.
Building Beloved Community.
North Carolina’s struggle with #HB2 is merely one of many examples that hampers our ability to build a beloved community rooted in a humane morality.
Rise up and Know. {poetry}
Marching together, we validated the deeper knowing we’ve all been feeling. Marching together, we collectively agreed, “No, this is not normal.”
And Yet, I Am an American: Witness to the Self-Seducing Psyche of Democracy.
Seldom does its lament of Black loss achieve the moral pitch as when innocent police officers are slain in retaliation. These retaliations are wrong, yet reveals America’s regard for democracy in principle though its practice violates the volition it claims to venerate.