BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
Here we go again.
On my morning walk with my dog I saw the Capitol Police friend of mine. We both shook our heads at the events that happened in Boston. Here we go again, we both said.
More overtime is in the future for him. More insecurity for me and my family.
We don’t know who set off the bombs in Boston. It could have been a Saudi National. That was the early speculation. It could have been a home-grown Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
The Trayvon Martin incident is no trivial moment in American history.
Mr. Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman in a Sanford, Florida gated community. Zimmerman says he was defending himself. Civil rights leaders and the Martin family believe it was murder.
The Sanford Police Department doesn’t quite know what to believe, and so far, has refused to arrest Zimmerman.
Upon this one deadly confrontation, America’s racial past and future collapse.
Will we ever live in a post-racial society or must we continue to harbor resentments and fears that poison our respective outlooks on our society?
I was watching a documentary the other night on PBS about Reconstruction in the old South. For a brief moment in time, things improved for blacks in the South after the Civil War. African-Americans were allowed to vote, and several were elected to political office, including the United States Senate. Continue reading