Author Archives: hderienzo

Below (in bold type) is a very recent political advertisement lauding the Florida Governor’s decision to ban Critical Race Theory in Florida schools.  His plea for money panders to the fear that many Americans have over history and its comprehensive treatment.  In a sense, this country is in the throes of fighting what might beContinue reading “Critical Race Theory – Deconstructing Never-Never Land”

They tumbled to the ground not unlike so many toothpicks leaned up one against the other.  Affirmative Action – the Supreme Court rules that reverse discrimination is real and diversity is only one among many elements that can be considered for college admissions, and reservedly at that.  Affordable Housing – while public housing has beenContinue reading “Salivating Over Critical Race Theory.  America’s Next Big Ideological Battle”

I do not remember who recommended this book to me or why, but I recently read Thick, and Other Essays by Tressie McMillam Cottom.  Written by a professor, a Black, Feminist author, I thought I would find some of her essays interesting.  I did find them interesting and relevant and then some.  Cottom is writingContinue reading “Being White in a Black World, Within a White World Within…….”

Coming from New York City, we became accustomed to having options when seeking services.  We were also accustomed to (mostly) prompt service that was available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.  But when we had a waste line back up in our home outside of Atlanta, we called local plumbing service companiesContinue reading “Competition – the Sink Hole of Capitalism”

Finally, after 32 years of repeated attempts, H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, has finally been reported out of committee for a full hearing, mark up and a vote in the House of Representatives.  This is a good thing and one I wholeheartedly support.  In and of itself,Continue reading “A Reparations Commission is Good, But What We Really Need is a Truth and Reconciliation Commission”

After slaves were freed at the conclusion of the Civil War, “freedmen” were free to live their lives – the vast majority without land, without money, without jobs, without assets, without even owning the very clothes on their backs.  Southern landowners, though doing better, were struggling.  But they had land, the basis (along with slavery)Continue reading “The Evolution of Exploitation – From Slavery to Sub-Prime Lending; from Sharecropping to Corporate Debasement of the American Dream”

When Will This Madness End? White Terrorism and the Scourge of Alienation-Fed Grievance Occupy Democrats, a left-wing advocacy group, has been circulating a photo of Paul Murray (above, top), asking that it be shared. This young, 31-year old, veteran was seemingly acting with the deadly intent to assassinate the Vice President of the United States. Continue reading ““When Will This Madness End?””

I was watching the March 5th Bill Maher Show, whose guests were New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Frank Bruni and radio and tv personality, Charlemagne tha God. They began discussing what allegedly started as a required Coca-Cola diversity training exercise encouraging employees to “be a little less White” (this is disputed by the Coca ColaContinue reading ““There are no blacks in Africa””

Freedom is a Farce (at least as we understand it) “It’s my body and if I want to adorn it with rings and tattoos that is my business!” “This is a free country.  Don’t tell me I have to wear a mask!” “Don’t tell me to turn down the music.  I’ll listen to my musicContinue reading “Freedom is a Farce”

HR 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, has been introduced in every Congressional Session, without success, since 1989.  The bill does not spell out a remedy and does not come with a meaningful fiscal price tag attached to it.  It is simply a proposed commission charged with layingContinue reading “The Sensitive Subject of Reparations”