Archive for May 2018
Reducing Racial Profiling Depends on All of Us
The post 911 mantra, “If you see something – say something” appears to have taken an ugly turn these days. It used to relate to concerns about terrorism. If you saw an abandoned backpack or van or if you discovered evidence one could construe as bomb related the instruction was to immediately call police to…
Read MoreTime to Bring Back the Asylums
What does the word asylum conjure up in your mind? An overpopulated mental ward with screaming patients frothing at the mouth? A snake pit, as depicted in the 1948 movie of the same name in which actress Olivia de Havilland, battles schizophrenia, shock treatments and a sadistic nurse? The word asylum simply means, “An institution…
Read MoreConfronting Tough Questions Following the #MeToo Movement
Bill Cosby is a convicted felon. A jury has declared him guilty of three counts of indecent sexual assault. If you’d told me a few years ago that I would one day be writing lines like that about the actor called “America’s Favorite Dad” I would have thought you were nuts. But there it is.…
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