Drick Boyd's Blog
White Folks – We Have No Excuse
We need to wake up and join in the chorus that Black Lives Matter. Not more than whites. Not more than police. Just that black lives are with preserving, protecting and valuing, that they matter to
If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going ….
However, whether talking about days, miles, or hills, the one-at-a-time philosophy only works if there some overall sense of direction one is following.
Resignation Letter
You are not my president; you are my problem, my heartache, my adversary, my embarrassment as an American citizen.
America – Discover this Country
In light of the recent budget proposed by the Trump Administration that will cut off an estimated 10 million low income people from the SNAP program (food stamps) and Medicaid (health care) while lining the pockets of the wealthy; when the president can sign an $11...
The Emperor Has No Clothes
Let him go back to his pseudo-reality TV world where he gets to think he is a boss, but in this real world, he needs to hear the words for which he is so famous: “You’re fired!”
Giving Populism a Bad Name
Too often there have not been enough leaders … to challenge the “divide and rule” strategy of corporate and political leaders, and so poor whites and people color see each other as adversaries rather than allies.
Good Friday – What’s Going on?
These days, I don’t find much inner traction with the idea of Jesus dying for my or anyone else’s sins.
Book Review- White Trash by Nancy Isenberg
Like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Nancy Isenberg's White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, tells a part of US history that is not only ignored...
Living Proactively in an Era of Reactivity
How can I, how can we, who care about justice for the poor, welcome to the immigrant and just basic fairness in the way government runs – how can we be more proactive and non-reactive,
A Lesson from History, A Challenge to the Future
History, despite its wrenching painCannot be unlived, but if facedWith courage, need not be lived again(Maya Angelou –“Pulse of the Morning”)This past week, my wife and I made a trip to Washington, DC to visit the African- American History Museum, which opened just...
What is Fascism?
Fascism tends to celebrate masculinity, youth, mystical unity and the regenerative power of violence. Often, but not always, it promotes racial superiority doctrines, ethnic persecution imperialist expansion and genocide.
The Problem with Walls
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Anger and Hope: The Fuel for Resistance
I write these words the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, the day of the Women’s March in Washington, DC and cities across the nation. Circumstances do not allow me to participate, but my prayers and thoughts are...
Black Ice
A few years ago, I was inspired by a former student of mine who lives in Minneapolis, MN and bikes around the city throughout the year. Once I visited her on a cold March day when the temperature was in the teens and the wind chill was below zero. I asked her if she...
The Temptation of Trump for White Folks
“Those of us who are white have been swimming all our lives in an ocean of white supremacy that is so pervasive, so omnipresent, so deep that we don’t even know we are wet. But that is no excuse.” (Kim Redigan)