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Politics: Words Can Be Poisoned Darts

This is going to be short (at least relatively shorter than most of my posts), but over the years I’ve had quite a few online and face-to-face discussions/debates/conversations with people from different walks of life on a lot of political topics. Recently, my boy sent me a Facebook thread on a political discussion that pretty [...]

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Innocence Lost

The time is 3:30 pm in my neighborhood and school is out. As I walk the streets of Kingsbridge Heights in the Bronx, I am taken over by sadness and disappointment. Sadness directed at our youth and disappointment directed at our adults. Ten minutes into my walk I witnessed a teenage boy smoking a joint [...]

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VIDEO: Mass Media-ocrity

I didn’t even intend to write a post today but I found a very interesting link from Kimberly Butler, a well known photographer, who has put together a spectacular short vlog series on the corporatization, politicization and dehumanization of media, or what she calls the “medium”. For the most part, I don’t watch any of [...]

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