Roland Teed was some kind of mixed breed, a veritable freak in our high school of whitebread plainness.  Two years my senior, half Chinese, but broad shouldered with bowed legs and about my height, Roland was already an adult.  When he stalked the halls of our school he was… Read full post »

reprinted from TC Journal:

“What’s the matter with rural education?”

K, a senior at a small Upstate high school, had an overall G.P.A. of near 90, yet she failed the N.Y. English Regents test in her junior year.   Also, she only managed a cumulative score of 600 o… Read full post »

What we know now is the picture of Adam Lanza & his life at home are coming into focus.  As I wrote about in my earlier post Lanza fits the profile of a parricidal young man.  And his home seems also to fit.  Here's more of what is being uncovered:

Adam… Read full post »

I am disturbed by what I see in the media regarding the motivations of mass murderer Adam Lanza.  The assumption (forwarded by the likes of movie critic Roger Ebert) is that Lanza was motivated to kill and to kill little children and to kill more little children than has ever been… Read full post »

Although Frantz Fanon is not my study, I appreciate his followers. From Malcolm X,  John Edgar Wideman and now Jamal Joseph who recently penned his asutobiography Panther Baby, about growing up as a Black Panther, these thinkers have got me thinking about "the wretched of the earth."

I work in a… Read full post »

“Look around Marshall, we’re all we’ve got.”  My mother spoke unequivocally.  “And it’s enough.” 

She was referencing her eldest sister death, and the fact that our nuclear unit would not be attending the funeral.  It was in Ohio/… Read full post »

Too often we Americans are seduced into only thinking about winning.  Thumbs up, thumbs down; our political system of winner takes all; our obsession with the acquisition of material objects; the inane ubiquity of sport, and of course, our ever enduring and continuing legacy of being a… Read full post »

“The Full Go Around”

In the introductions before the full-go-around
each Sex Offender need be well-prepared,
like sitting ‘round the dinner table, everybody knows why we’re here
We are not here to discuss deviant arousal or victim empathy.
We are all men here, irrespective of what… Read full post »