I’ve been writing this blog since March of last year - and I have learned a lot. I can say without exaggeration, that every day I write or read comments on this blog my mental universe expands a little. I am thankful for that and for ALL of you who comment. But my goal is [...]

Sorry for the slow down in original posting just now. I am setting up a move and it’s got me all topsy turvy. In depth posting will resume tomorrow.
But in the meantime, I wanted to make sure you saw this thought provoking New York Times editorial: Color Test - Where Whites Draw the Line by [...]

Spent all day doing democracy as a poll inspector (aka supervisor.) Given all that is happening it was a little surreal to be working in a place so out of the way that there was NO cellphone reception.
And I tell you, I had to check a couple of disgruntled or shall I say freaked [...]

Another story
So unfortunately, one of the poll workers on my team has hurt her back and she will not be available to work next Tuesday’s election. We had a lovely chat, but one exchange tickled my funny bone and fell right into the question I’m asking right now.
We found ourselves talking about how this was [...]

One Story
So I accompanied my husband to the mobile phone store because we needed to replace his old, outdated flip phone with a Blackberry. My back was killing me that day and so as we got to the counter and began the l-o-n-g process of purchasing and activating his new toy, I took the opportunity [...]

UPDATE 3/31 - Read More - The Brute Caricature, The Jim Crow Museum
Basketball star Lebron James will grace Vogue’s April cover. He’s only the third man to ever do so.
Here it is:

What the hell??!??
Can you just imagine the impact on unsuspecting passersby of dozens of these magazines on display side by side? A [...]

My conservative friends think I’ve gone and lost my mind. They think so because standing in the outstretched palm of middle age, I am increasingly politically liberal. Oh sure, my personal evolution goes against trend. In fact I bet you’ve heard some version of the age old saying, “If you’re not liberal in your 20s [...]

It occurs to me that in the last 90 days, the mainstream media (MSM) has broadcast more positive images of the American black man than at any time since the late 1980’s when The Cosby Show was airing original episodes and in syndication simultaneously. On top of Obama’s screen time, I’ve seen more black [...]

The first Hate Crime indictment has been handed down in the Megan Williams case, and the accused, Karen Burton, 46, is “relieved:”
Karen Burton was “a little surprised” by the hate crime charge but was relieved that an earlier sexual assault count was not included in the indictment, said her attorney, Betty Gregory.
“She didn’t want her [...]

Contributor Carole McDonnell’s short stories and essays appear online and in print, in speculative fiction, ethnic, and Christian publications. Wind Follower, published by Juno Books, is Carole’s first novel. You will usually find Carole here each Sunday when she serves up observations about race from the perspective of a socially tolerant, observant Christian. Let us [...]

I’ve been fighting a bug for the past several days and on Sunday afternoon the bug won. Fever, bodyaches, raspy scratchy throat all of it. I’m hopped up on cold and flu meds so the hundred or so posts I’ve written in my mind were probably hallucinations. But I do have a couple of longer [...]

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**New** Dratz…maybe it doesn’t save that much energy. But it IS cool looking.
From an email I just received:
If Google had a black screen, taking into account the huge number of times this search engine is used, 750 mega watts/hour of energy per year would be saved. In recognition of this [...]

A little “hoof in mouth” disease caught up with rancher William Farr on Wednesday night.
A Greeley businessman apologized Wednesday after a joke about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama fell flat during the National Western Stock Show’s annual Citizen of the West banquet.
William R. Farr was pretending to read telegrams congratulating this year’s award recipient, University of [...]

Standing on the side of the road, I’ve been contemplating the direction of All About Race and I feel it’s time for a content lane change. We’re not changing direction, just maybe a different route. I want to see more trees.
By Monday, I think, I’ll have it all worked out in my head and hopefully [...]

That’s the headline that flashed across AOL yesterday afternoon as I was checking my personal email account. Turns out that Golf Channel PGA Tour announcer, Kelly Tilghman made this repugnant comment during Friday’s telecast of the PGA Tour’s opening event. She said, on air, that in order to win:
…today’s young players should lynch Tiger [...]