Black History
The original draft of this post observed events as of mid 2022. Since the last published post in 2021 there’s been more shooting of black men, women and children. Too many resulted from highly questionable circumstances ranging from suspicion of firearm possession, profiling, to fleeing a traffic stop to executing a no-knock warrant and self-defense…
Pause and think about this. It is 1619 and a group of Africans who were destined to become indentured servants landed on the shores of the Virginia colony. Soon the European settlers realized that these indentured servants were easily identified. Voila, here begins slavery and the growth of the products they labored to plant, tend…
Sly Stone released an album June 30, 1973 called “Fresh” and on it is a tune: “Thankful N’ Thoughtful”. A lyric from that tune is “People got to be reminded, where it’s really at…” Project Chain of Change takes that admonition/observation/whatever you want to call it…seriously. History has to be kept in the foreground from…