Tag Archives: black and white
Palmettos Black and White.
03-Jan-13Rising Tide, by John M. Barry.
18-Mar-09Acayucan When I heard that many in New Orleans (especially blacks) believed that the Army Corps of Engineers had dynamited the levees protecting the city’s black neighborhoods just after Hurricane Katrina hit, I dismissed the notion as yet another conspiracy theory. These seem to proliferate wherever the powers of the human mind languish unfertilized by action […]
A more perfect union.
26-Jan-09Passing through Spartanburg (S.C.), I stopped at a laundromat on the east side of town. There were four people there, and curiously enough, all four of us were youngish men, doing the laundry on a weekday afternoon. The other three men were all black. We started talking, but I literally could not understand the accent of […]