Joseph Anderson

For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of read more

For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in read more

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments

Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights read more

Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled ""anti-Semitic.""

I average 250 miles a day in this car. I fill up every day, going to the cheapest pump I read more

I average 250 miles a day in this car. I fill up every day, going to the cheapest pump I can find going home, and it costs $35 to $50. That cuts into my profit quite a bit.