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I hesitated to write this essay but the importance of January 6’s events at our nation’s capitol drove me to do so. There are other things that I should be writing. In my doctoral program, I [...]

As most people in Amerika wait for the white supremacist U.S. President, Donald Trump, to concede defeat in the recent election and vacate the White House, there remains great consternation among [...]

When I graduated from high school in 1971, I was pretty much an apolitical slug. I didn’t know much of anything that was swirling around me in society at that time, despite the fact that U.S. [...]

On July 19, the San Diego Union-Tribune, once one of the most blatantly racist, conservative, daily newspapers in the U.S. (now it’s a little better under current ownership), printed an essay [...]

I used to watch MSNBC almost every day for my daily dose of anti-Trump news, even though the station is chickenshit, not nearly progressive, and has virtually no Chicano voices on a regular [...]

During the past week I have seen several African Americans on television, including the twenty-first century stepin fetchit, Stephen “Screaming” A. Smith on ESPN, express their admiration for the [...]

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In April 2017 I retired from the University of California, San Diego after twenty-eight years as an administrator and instructor. I was hired in 1989 as the coordinator of the OASIS Summer Bridge [...]