Tag: Blind

Pull a couple of things together and before you know it you created some Art For Art’s Sake, not necessarily portraying something real or even meaningful. Yet the simple act of adding things together, creating a new outcome, delivers a synergistic result — hopefully something p...

“Boston” and “racism” have become near synonyms. Whether it’s that infamous line from Martin Scorcese’s The Departed (“You’re a black guy in Boston. You don’t need any help from me to be completely f****d.”), or Roy Wood Jr.&rsquo...

Color-blind racism is rooted in a lie that racial identity doesn't have any impact on Black people. The irony isn't lost on Black Americans that the same group of people who regularly claim that race does not, or should not matter, are actively targeting a group of people...

On October 17th, the Justicialists of Argentina celebrate el Día de la Lealtad Peronista, the Day of Peronist Loyalty. It began in 1945 after Perón, formerly Labor Secretary and Vice President of the military government that had taken power by coup, was jailed. His superiors ha...

Antoine continued his journey through the outskirts of the city and came across another group of men. This group was deeply engaged in a serious discussion. Curious about their perspectives, he cautiously approached them. One of the men, with a determined look, noticed Antoine’s presence an...

Then came Colourblindness: Why don’t we just ignore everyone’s race? Wouldn’t that solve the racism problem? If you treat everyone equally you aren’t treating anyone poorly because of their race. And for a time it was Good. Then came a hyper-focus on race: wokeism, DEI,...

During a routine yearly eye exam In 2017, when I was 56, I learned I had Stargart’s Disease, a genetic disease that degrades the central part of the retina. It has no treatment or cure and usually causes blindness by age 20. At the time of my diagnosis, my vision was near 20/20, so I naively d...

They seem to usually know what they’re up to days in advance. Often, they possess the mystical capacity to do things like ‘plan an event’. I tend to be more of a serial lounger, who procrastinates taking action until some impulse strong enough to pull me out of whatever undeserv...

The murder of George Floyd and the widespread conversations about race that are finally happening after a decade of watching black people die have led us to a crucial inflection point. We can’t keep silent, as we have for so long — especially not when we see so many o...