“It is dangerous to be right in matters on
which the established authorities are wrong.”
—Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV, 175
Hearing! Hearing! Hearing!
Sheep-shearing/job-fearing/fictioneering—
Chalk white, snow white, lily white, bone
White nois
Read more…Live With Intention
Junious Ricardo Stanton
In our last commentary I questioned what I could do to remedy an environment where I don’t feel safe within an immoral hierarchical society. Henry David Thoreau also wrestled with the same conundrum. The nin
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Writhing—tossing, turning—
Furious about a
Flashback
making me sit up in bed … trembling with anger!
Furious about a flashback! Flashback of a
Freedom fighter framed, chained and gagged!
Choking, grunting muffled anti-fascist phrases—
Cruel, as u
Read more…I Don’t Feel Safe
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The power dynamics and hierarchy in this country are truly fascinating. In America the myths of egalitarianism, equal opportunity and protection under the law still prevail; but in reality they are just that; m
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Censorship Is Metastasizing
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The First Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits Congress from establishing a state religion, prevents abridging the exercise of free speech, provides for the freedom of the press, guarantees the
Read more…"The policeman isn't there to create disorder;
the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
—Richard J. Daley
Scholasticide? Pedicide? Infanticide? Ecocide?
Genocide? Clear which side they’re on, they
Study war no more— And refuse to cave under
Weig
Read more…“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” |
—Honoré de Balzac
I’m not a nuanced
Negro
Complicating,
Contextualizing, centering,
Unpacking, drilling down
Inter-sectionally into
weeds beneath capitalism’s
‘Hood …
Yet, point blank,
full stop—
Read more…What’s The Lesson Here?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
For the past several weeks the media has focused on the protests and demonstrations roiling on major university campuses across the country. It started at Columbia University in New York City as did the
Read more…Things That Make You Go Hmmm?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
As the demonstrations and protests for peace and against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the United States’ unconditional support of this unjust war spread around the country and the world, it is
Read more…Student Protests Are Spreading Across US
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Since Israel’s heavy handed response to Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attacks there has been a growing antipathy towards Tel Aviv’s ethnic cleansing and genocide. People of good realize the Zi
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Metallic music of shovels; Abrasions again on bare hands
Digging, digging, digging through twisted bones and
busted bricks of buildings. To backpacks, blankets, baby
body parts to rescue tiny arms and legs emitting whispers…
Obese bulldozers mu
Read more…We Need To Get In The Game
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Largely the problems we are confronted with today as Afrikan people in America flow from our powerlessness or our inappropriate uses of power. We’ve been made to think that to even talk about and
Read more…Our Village Is Not Well
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Crime and criminal behavior regardless of temporal or cultural definition, occur not in a vacuum, but within a complex matrix of interpersonal, social, intergroup relations and other eco-psychological f
Read more…Mission Creep Towards All Out War
Junious Ricardo Stanton
As we observe world events we are witnessing alarming trends and patterns that do not bode well for the prospects of peace and stability. The immediate blimps on the global radar are the Ukrai
Read more…Real Life Zombie Apocalypse
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Philadelphia’s low-income Kensington neighborhood continues to be overrun with sleepwalking ‘zombies’ as overdoses caused by the street drug known as tranq continue to rise. Also known as ‘tranq do
Read more…Haiti In The News...
Junious Ricardo Stanton
We are subjected to daily propaganda, distortions of reality, out and out lies and at the very least statements totally devoid of historical context, analysis or veracity. For example we are now being bombar
Read more…Alarming Trends Are Being Suppressed
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“In a December 12, 2023, article for The Hill,15 Kory also reviewed the actuarial data, which reveals another shocking shift: The burden of death now falls disproportionately on the young an
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