Pride Goes before the Bricks

It is often said that the strongest emotion in the world is love. Love may be the strongest emotion, but the most violent one is pride. In everything from the Conquests to the generations-long family feuds of the Deep South, pride is the igniting factor. Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado is an exemplary…

The Fight To End Hyphenation

In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – Toni Morrison There can be no debate that in this so-called ‘great nation’ there exists a deep and inherent racism. It has been 152 years since President Abraham Lincoln had the great presence of mind to declare that all men held as slaves…