Category: Public Commentary

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Jan 04

Once Again It’s On: 2021 and Camden Public Education

To be sure, on the surface 2021 looks much like any other year in Camden City Schools. But I do know, however, that our educators’ fuse is getting progressively shorter in response to such protracted fights to simply exist, and the prolonged disrespect from our superintendent which can potentially make 2021 pretty interesting after all.

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Oct 09

Please, stop calling them Christians – they aren’t.

Not unlike many younger Black men specifically, some peers whom I hold in high regard, have rightfully taken (America’s portrayal of) Christianity to task as being the “white man’s religion”, with questions emerging pertaining to how could I, a Black man, worship the same religion white slave masters, who brutalized our ancestors for centuries, used to excuse their atrocities as well as justify their actions in doing so? Numerous such conversations occurred over the years, and so, this is my attempt to summarily address such queries that I know I am not alone in having to grapple with in rationalizing, as well as in answering.