by Drick Boyd | Jun 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
For the past several years on or around the Fourth of July, I have made a practice of re-reading portions of Frederick Douglass’ famous July 5, 1852 speech in Rochester, NY entitled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Speaking at the height of a...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dear Mr. President.I resign from your America. I revoke my citizenship in the America you want to make first. Yesterday you broke with the world community in its efforts to curb our collective carbon emissions as a world community before the warming of the planet...
by Drick Boyd | May 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
It seems clear that since assuming the presidency, Pres. #45 has discovered that the U.S. Government does not operate like his real estate empire. He makes bold statements about building walls, repealing and replacing health care, and banning people from Muslim...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
A lot of folks on the political left have been throwing around the F-word when referring to our 45th president. Except for knowing that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (pictured above) identified proudly as a Fascist, led his country in World War II to inglorious...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
