Category: POLITICS

• Guillen’s Tales: “Counterfeit Freedom”, a poem

  

  Guillen’s Tales: the column of “pop star, stuck in fashion”, Alejandro Guillen Born to a family without designer genes But what does this mean to me? Does it mean I am not equal? Not destined to be fruitful? Not to be granted the same opportunity Then those who grew up with the proper zip code?…

  C.S.J.

  January 13, 2016

  LIFE, POLITICS, RACE POLITICS/RACISM, SOCIETY

  poems, poetry

• I Was Not Amused By The Hashtag #CivilRightsTwitter

  

  I wonder if in 2015, those of Jewish descent, or religion, would ever participate–let alone initiat– a hashtag such as #HolocaustTwitter. Let’s picture it. A social media collective accompanied by memes of slain emaciated bodies on top of each other, as they were in real life concentration camps, with sassy captions like: “I don’t see…

  C.S.J.

  December 16, 2015

  HUMOR, POLITICS, RACE POLITICS/RACISM, SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIETY, SOME THOUGHTS ON…, VIDEO

  Black Twitter, civil rights movement, Instagram, Twitter

• These Horrific Statements From Ben Carson Are Reason Enough To Vote For Hillary Clinton

  

  Or at least anyone but Ben Carson. Today, I saw a news headline and video that completely pissed me off and I must speak on it. Raw Story posted a clip from Ben Carson‘s interview that aired during today’s episode of Meet the Press. Carson is infamously one of the candidates aiming to win the GOP…

  C.S.J.

  October 25, 2015

  INFORMATION, LIFE, MEDIA, POLITICS, SEXISM+GENDER, SOCIETY, VIDEO

  Ben Carson, Chuck Todd, election 2016, feminism, feminist, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Jada Pinkett Smith, Meet the Politics, politics, reproductive rights, republican party, roe vs wade, women’s rights