July 2021
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Knowing as important as forgetting
It is Monday and I’m on the Statehouse grounds in Columbia. It is dark, late, and my wife and I are walking the manicured…
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Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Truth?
When Andrew Smith said, “People fear what they don’t understand and hate what they can’t conquer,” he was laying out the blueprint for the…
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THE GREAT DISCONTENT
Being raised in the parts of Mississippi that rarely grace pages of southern novels and are seen only in the dimmest light on a…
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The good (lots), the bad (some)and the ugly (two biggies)
I never attended grade school with any African-Americans. You can bet the farm that in Houston in the 1940s and 1950s, such “colored” folks…
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Can Port Royal and Beaufort learn chutzpah?
The more things change the more they stay the same. Longtime readers of this column may remember a study that was referenced here in…