On MLK Day, Despair and Hope

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is arguably one of the most loved and respected historical figures, his impact on American history is unparalleled and unrivaled. It is easy to forget that before Dr. King started his fight, black people in the United States were considered and were treated as second class citizens. It was codified in the laws and an entire segment of the population was treated very badly in a country whose creed claimed to be that all men were created equal.

Charlie Hebdo

(Je commence par m’ excuser, parce que mon français n’est pas a la hauteur, mais je pense qu’il est important que mes lecteurs français puisse lire mes pensées infiltrées. Je n’ai pas ecrit en Français il y a longtemps, je demande pardons des mes fautes aussi grammaticales que stylistiques. Merci beaucoup.)

Hier, une tragédie c’est abattue sur le 11ème arrondissement de Paris, un acte de terrorisme et d’attaque sur la liberté d’expression et de religion. La rédaction de Charlie Hebdo, le magazine humoriste et satirique dont les dessins profanes faisait rire et penser, a été décimée dans un acte lâche. Mes condoléances aux familles qui ont perdu des pères, des frères, des soeurs et des enfants.  Le monde entier est avec vous dans votre douleur et chérit leur sacrifice pour la liberté d’expression.

Syriza, Greece and Europe

It has been a hot debate in the corridors of power in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, London and the whole European Union. Will Greece remain in or get out of the Eurozone? Recent events in Greece have brought this improbable question to the forefront of the political discussion.

Emmanuel Macron, Savior?

It has become quite the norm, in the presidency of Francois Hollande for government to rise and fall in short periods. In the last remaniement, the more outspoken personalities, Arnaud Montebourg, Benoit Amont, Aurelie Fillipeti, opposed to the centrist shift of the President and his Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, were all fired. The new government ministers represented the full embrace by Hollande of the Social-Democrat political mind and his reject of the true left, the ideal to his party, the PS (the Socialist Party). No one represents that change more than the new minister of the economy and industrial renewal, Emmanuel Macron.

The Ferguson Essays Part I: The Prosecution and Race

Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, the linking of the two incidents was bound to happen. For many people, many of them African-Americans, it was inevitable. The events that happened on August 9th 2014, were going to be examined through the lens of Trayvon Martin's murder by George Zimmerman. How the prosecution in setting the entire grand jury process and witnesses could ignore that is shocking and puzzling.

The Ferguson Essays

I have restrained from writing anything concerning Ferguson in the immediate aftermath of the decision not to indict Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown Jr. I have felt that my writing would be marred by emotions and would accomplish nothing. But this is an important event, it requires clarity of mind and lucidity to write about.

I wish this had been handled better buy the prosecution, the government and the police so that the ugliness that happen on Tuesday didn't overshadow all the important questions that deserved to be asked and pondered upon in the aftermath of this tragedy. I will examine some of those questions in the upcoming three or four essays, so bear with me and be patient.

Most importantly, I offer my sincere condolences to the Brown family, who has behaved with extreme grace and dignity and has risen above the anger and the hatred that this situation has brought upon many people. I hope that they continue to be strong and that their efforts to bring forth change from the death of their son are fruitful.

Midterm Election 2014, Two Weeks Later.

How?

How, would summarize my thoughts after seeing the results and the terrible performance by the democrats. Yes, these were midterms during an incumbent President's last half of his second term. The congressional map has been gerrymandered by republicans for at least the next 10 years, but how does one explain the loss of the Senate and the loss of even more gubernatorial seats and state legislatures?