No V For Victory Just Yet
“Well!” exhaled the black lady in front of me in line at the post office.“I’m just tired of S--t”, she went on to complain.As I see life, it’s our personal responsibility to reach out to a fellow sufferer, and so…
White Boy Kills Four, Injures Many, Gets Probation
Sixteen-year-old Ethan Couch, while driving his wealthy dad's truck home from a party he had attended, and with a blood alcohol level 3 times above the legal limit, slammed into a group of people on the side of the road, …
Who is Myrna Raeder?
College? Every hand in the room goes up when the question is asked.Locked up behind bars? No hands.In every parenting class that I conduct for incarcerated moms at the California Institution for Women in Chino, CA, I ask these two…
Trying To Figure Out The Math of Justice
Maybe I'm not getting the facts correct, but I've been known to misunderstand things, so this confusion I'm experiencing isn't exactly an anomaly.Readers will no doubt set me straight, as they often do, even when I have a clear vision…
Ask Your Preacher Man About The New Jim Crow
Some years ago, during the late 1960s, my younger sister, who at the time was attending UCLA's law school, was part of a project that took her to one of California's state prisons for men.She said she saw why she…