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39 short years

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Today is actually Martin Luther King’s birthday.  (One of the few celebrations that are not muddied by our practice of Monday holidays.)  Had MLK not been murdered (and, of course, still alive), he would be turning  95 today.  He didn’t even live for 40 years, but he still left a huge imprint upon America,

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Recalling our Selma March Experiences

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Selma Alabama, Edmund Pettus BridgeGiven that today is the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when white cops beat the crap out of the Blacks attempting to march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the way to Montgomery, it is appropriate to remember how our synagogue re-enacted that march..  To bring the attention of the world to the need for fair and equitable voting rights- as well as civil rights, in general.

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Chaos or Community?

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It’s not quite the right day- but, in America, we seem to opt for Monday holidays.  So, today, not the 15th, we are honoring Dr. Martin Luther King.  It is interesting to note that his last book turns out to be a most timely concept for discussion today.

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How I came to be sensitive to bias

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I wrote yesterday’s blog- and the one that should have appeared today a while ago (which will appear tomorrow).  But, I realized I need to explain to you how I came to be sensitive to bias.  So, I am interrupting the flow to insert an article I was asked to write by Janine Ripper almost a decade ago, for a series that she shared on her (then) blog- The Beauty of Difference.

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Shh. Secret Discrimination

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I wasn’t going to continue this, but I was having a discussion with my normal coffee buds and this issue came up. And, several folks asserted facts that were plainly untrue. Quoting that Fox News said so. (It turns out that Fox News actually has NEWS programs- and their reporting is pretty darned good. But, the shows- you know, the ones with abrasive personalities at night or blond(e) bimbos [the e is in parentheses to denote either gender] in the morning, the ones that air about 22 hours a day- are NOT news. But, they want you to think they are.)

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