Society
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Society
Each June, the LGBQT+ world community celebrates natural gender diversity and sexual identification as Pride Month. Its roots go back to June 28, 1969, when the NYPD stormed a Greenwich Village, NYC, gay club, Stonewall Inn, on the pretense of liquor license violations, employed for decades to prevent gay assemblies. The NYPD committed battery on Stonewall Inn’s patrons and employees as they brutally yanked them out. This resulted in six days of intense protests against the police action outside the bar and at a nearby park, resulting in further skirmishes with the NYPD.
Read more: COPENHAGEN LORD MAYOR asks DANISH CAPITOL OF AMERICA to embrace LGBTQ+ Natural Diversity
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Society
It's 1986, and am in California, studying towards a graduate degree in cultural anthropology, but am considering medicine with my background in biology, being beyond curious about neuroscience. In my mind, I'm also thinking about veterinary school at UC Davis, having done research on, and cared for, so many birds. I so love those avian dinosaurs that managed to survive the mass extinction crisis prior to the one we're in right now.
I have to work. Unlike Denmark, higher education in the USA is unattainably expensive for so many, and is a major cause for America's degeneration towards a religion-justified, corporate dystopia. America's not quite yet there, even as I write these words in 2021.
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Society
It's December of 1975. Finals, papers, and Christmas are behind me. A foot of old snow carpets most places not disturbed, but several feet, some of it fresh according to the weather reports, deck the mountains of New Hampshire.
As always, the moment he heard my keys jingle, my beloved long haired Shepherd, Dan (long ”a” as in the Danish), came running to me from where he had been whining from a window at some squirrels having fun harassing him. He looked at me with those endearing eyes, flowing long tail wagging big time, knowing an adventure was at hand. I went down on my knees, let him lick-kiss my entire face, lips firmly clenched (seen too many bacteria-rich petri dishes at school), but had to say, ”Sweetie, you can't come.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Society
The girl brought in by the slave ship
Moved haltingly down the dock.
A client scans her, hip to hip,
Ogles and does gently rock.
Skin-lightening began right there,
Right in that first client’s eyes.
It encompassed both skin and hair;
They’re both part of what he buys.
- Written by: William Hunn
- Category: Society
TWO TALES
I was in the checkout line at the supermarket when the man in front of me got my attention. He was older, very thin almost frail looking. His basket of stuff was inching toward the cashier on the conveyor.
Excuse me sir, “Do you think you could help me pay for my groceries. I don’t have any money and I need to feed my grandkids”.
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Society
China's Forest City plan
Articlke in progress. Do not yet approve
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/19/coronavirus-effect-economy-life-society-analysis-covid-135579
(bring in expert discussion on the world after vovid)
Read more: The Challenges of the Pandemic Can Save Civilization
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
Unlike the uneducated boor on Pennsylvania Avenue most Americans are familiar with Juneteenth. At this poignant, harrowing, chaotic time I hope that my simple words can help in the push for equality that should have been given to Black people in 1619. Here are few women, much braver than I, who worked towards the freeing of humans from slavery in the US. The recent movie, Harriet, has brought one women’s story to our current generation. Another Black woman, Sojurner Truth, many are familiar with for her famous speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, ‘And ain’t I a woman?’
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
Recently I was watching my 14 year old grandson play a video game, it was a story that took place in the Wild West and a player could pick the character they wanted to be. I asked him if there were any female characters. He said, “No Memaw, there aren’t famous women in the Wild West.” Oh really?! I asked him if he had ever heard of Calamity Jane. Not surprisingly, he hadn’t. Challenge accepted. I was going to prove to him that there many women who helped settle and/or pillage the West.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
Laura Cornelius Kellogg
When we think of heroic people we tend to assume they were flawless and we are often let down when we read about their flaws. People who do heroic things are just like you and I, they have idiosyncrasies and flaws just like other humans. Frequently they are the victim of someone else’s wrath. Sometimes a person who is a hero to one generation may not be to another, for example, Thomas Jefferson. While he is the writer of a beautiful document espousing freedom he was also a slave owner, quite a moral conflict. Or, envy, jealousy and personal gain may lead to the destroying of an honorable person’s activism, as our current president has tried so desperately to smear James Comey. Laura Cornelius Kellogg was such a hero.
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Society
Dear Mr President, is that you touching me? I have no eyes except in the minds of people, and I've changed over the years as states came onto my banner; so I know history better than anyone in this house. For I was but a dream of liberty, taxed without representation by predatory rule, but for so much blood, sweat and tears to declare forever, We the People. And the old kingdom, in trying to take back Turtle Island, the colonies, now America, set a poet into custody on that ship by the dawn's early light who saw me still waving over the ramparts across the bay, and then penned my song. Too many of my brothers and sisters fell into the blood of countless battlefields trying to free a human race chained into slavery. Less than four score later, a little mustached Nazi monster spake words such as yours before setting the world of humanity ablaze like never in history, but I was still there at the end, waving in breezes over endless miles of tombs of the fallen who sacrificed so others might be free.
