Most white people say the recovery is going well. Most black people believe the opposite.
Author Archives: Eugene Thomas
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Memories of a black boyhood and my delight in the Confederate ‘stars and bars’
“I bought a Black Liberation Flag and hung it in my cube above my rack, as we called our beds. Someone wasn’t pleased.”
Posted inOpinion
To escape marginalization, Black History Month must embrace ‘hard truths’
As we close out the 2015 installment of Black History Month, a real problem is the way people continue to separate black history from American history.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Invasion of the poop troopers: Scooping’s the law — but at a cost to the planet
Dog droppings biodegrade within days; the poop scoopers’ plastic bags will sit in landfills for centuries.
Posted inOpinion
Slavery museum at upriver plantation stirs controversy on both sides of racial divide
Black and white folks alike — some of them skeptics, some of them cynics — seem to be mightily opposed to the idea of a slave museum.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
When the crime is ‘being black,’ police routinely respond with guns drawn
“We black folk are reduced to teaching our children how to get arrested … .”