Anokye “Greetings, Yaw Okoto!” said the old man, warmly, to the boy (who was really more of a young man than a boy nowadays). “Greetings, Anokye!” cried the enthusiastic boy, embracing the wrinkled old man. “The Abron were not expecting us. We were successful. And I received not a scratch.” “I…

It is somewhat understandable to grow into adulthood and find the history you were taught as a child was incomplete. We teach our children whitewashed history that celebrates Christopher Columbus, for instance, even though he led a genocide of the Arawaks and allowed his men to take sex slaves as…

Authors note: Before I get into it, please be advised that this article might just challenge what you believe is reality. If that happens, chances are pretty good that you’ll get angry with me or decide that I’m just a fool. While it may be the case that I’m a…

What happened to our country? During World War II there were a huge number of conscientious objectors- people who refused to fight for moral reasons- 43,000 according to Howard Zinn[1], four times the number of conscientious objectors during World War I, as well as 350,000 official cases of draft evasion…

The Democratic Party thinks that you have found equality and equal access, as long as the Democratic Party is making the decisions, instead of the Republicans, whom they accuse of outright racism. Yet the Democratic Party practices a form of racism, too- a more subtle, insidious racism, but it is…

Dear [your name here, long time Democrat or Republican voter], I understand that the title, alone, of this article has you skeptical, but I sincerely beg you to please give me a few moments of your time. You see, I do sincerely believe, as stated in the above picture, that…

9:30 PM on a Tuesday night, the streets wet and dark with the rain from earlier this evening, the streets of downtown Vallejo are quiet. A car drives down Georgia Street every so often, but little else stirs. Under the eaves of the City Hall rest several homeless people, one…

Some of you, who are reading this, will know the difference and are reading this to, sort of, check me and make sure I’m not lying to people. Some of you, unfortunately, may be reading this with a drop of drool forming in the corner of your mouth, anticipating something…

It is far too easy to misunderstand the motivations of leaders of other countries when we don’t understand the histories of those countries. And when a majority of Americans don’t understand the histories or motivations of foreign leaders, that lack of understanding can be exploited and used to spread fear…