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Palmettos Black and White.

03-Jan-13

The Everglades without color.

Rising Tide, by John M. Barry.

18-Mar-09

Acayucan When I heard that many in New Orleans (especially blacks) believed that the Army Corps of Engineers had dynamited the levees protecting the city’s black neighborhoods just after Hurricane Katrina hit, I dismissed the notion as yet another conspiracy theory. These seem to proliferate wherever the powers of the human mind languish unfertilized by action […]

A more perfect union.

26-Jan-09

      Passing through Spartanburg (S.C.), I stopped at a laundromat on the east side of town.  There were four people there, and curiously enough, all four of us were youngish men, doing the laundry on a weekday afternoon.  The other three men were all black.  We started talking, but I literally could not understand the accent of […]