On "Hispanic" and "White"

As a guy who's great grandmother is Spanish or "Hispanic", and whose girlfriend is "of Hispanic origin", I'm a bit amused with how little the vast majority in this country seem to understand about the terms "white" and "Hispanic". So, in an effort to break it down and save someone the humiliation of looking completely naive on the intricacies of the subject, I wanted to take a second and lay it all out there -- and hey, it might just bring some of...

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On The Media Machine: When Do We Call It Lying?

I've been watching CNN lately trying to stay as up to date as I can with the goings on of the incidents in Ferguson, MO. I have to say I have been a little but off by the actions of the police, although I can relate to their mission having been a military police officer myself -- you can find my opinions on that here. I'm also a bit appalled by the amount of bias I'm seeing on the part of the media. CNN in general has been utterly bewildering...

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On Humanizing Police: The Reality of The Individual Officer

Captain #RonJohnson has come out and expressed his approval for the #military style tactics used by the #Ferguson police, saying: "When the chaos is in full effect, we can't tell if you are peaceful, potentially violent, or a member of the media. We just have to act, and we must protect our lives and the lives of the good people of this community." To me, this is an amazing statement, and one that is uniquely...

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Dear Violet Baudelaire: Why White Privilege Doesn't Exist

I read an article that one of my good friends shared with me recently, and it set me on edge a bit. The article was an op-ed by Violet_Baudelaire that more or less amounted to a profanity laced misrepresentation of the American reality, marred with blatant racial slurs and assumptions regarding the notion of "white privilege" -- I felt compelled to dismantle and inspect the argument in a bit more detail in an attempt to...

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