by Drick Boyd | Dec 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Nelson Mandela passed away yesterday (Dec 5) and I was informed of this death as fittingly I was talking about the effects of racism in our society with a group of young adults involved in a program called Mission Year. As has been and will be repeated many...
by Drick Boyd | Nov 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last night my wife and went to see the film “12 Years a Slave,” the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black from Saratoga, NY who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841. Eventually, thru the help of friends he was discovered and freed after 12...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
My good friend Mary Wade, an urban peacemaker, formerly working at the U.N. offers this response to my last posting “Disgusted.” She is far more eloquent than I and gets to the heart of the issue: a spiritual crisis. Here is Mary’s response.More and...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m disgusted.After several weeks of stymieing the government’s ability to operate by causing a shutdown and complaining about the expense of the Affordable Health Care Act (which unfortunately has not been launched all that effectively), House Republicans have now...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
As a federal government shutdown looms due to the Republican threats to not pass a budget bill and attempts to de-fund the Affordable Healthcare Act (so-called Obamacare), I am moved to reflect on the role of government in relationship to the poor and marginalized in...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, we witnessed another mass shooting in which 13 people lost their lives, eleven of them unarmed random victims. The shooter, Aaron Alexis, and a police officer were the only armed persons with a sense of purpose, the former going on a shooting spree,...
