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The Link Between Gun Violence, Race and Politics in America versus US Human...
Preface This article serves two purposes. First it serves as an informational piece that examines the interrelationships between gun violence, right wing politics and racial discrimination in...
View ArticleGun Violence and Human Rights: Welcome to the Family
With two separate human rights committees declaring this year that rampant gun violence in the United States constitutes a violation of our government’s duty to protect life, gun violence finds...
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African-American Gun Violence Victimization. Just One Contributor to Millions...
Summary That some lives matter more than others is made clear when the well-documented shortfall in African-American life expectancy is translated into millions of premature deaths. It has been...
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Guns, Government, Race and Rights. ‘The Demographics, Stupid’.
Summary This paper makes the case that the time has come for activist groups to abandon business-as-usual tactics and go on the offensive to change the political landscape in Washington, D.C. The...
View ArticleFrom Charleston to Newtown to Human Rights, US Failing its Legal Obligations
There’s been a lot of talk recently, by our President and others, about gun violence prevention (GVP) and racial discrimination. Yet both can be simultaneously addressed by having our government...
View ArticleBoehner’s Resignation. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah?
Speaker Boehner was apparently oblivious to the origins and racial controversies surrounding the song he was singing during his resignation announcement. (Note: The lack of postings in recent weeks...
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Mass Incarceration, Race and Gun Background Checks. Reenforcing Implicit Bias
Expanded Summary Mass shootings shape much public opinion on the issue of gun violence and its prevention. Yet in 2012, the year of the highly publicized Sandy Hook Elementary and Aurora movie...
View ArticleNorth Carolina’s LGBT Discrimination Law HB2: Its Folly and Motivation
Introduction On March 23, the NC House and Senate both passed legislation entitled the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, the full title being “An act to provide for single-sex occupancy...
View ArticleNC’s Anti-LGBT Law and the Legislature: Little Business Sense
As was posted in a recent article, I sent my objections to NC’s anti-LGBT law, House Bill 2 (HB2) to my elected representatives in the NC General Assembly with copy to leadership of both parties in...
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The Cruelty of NCs House Bill 2
Introductory Remarks This piece is being written from the perspective of three different sets of experiences. The first is that of having been an employer and founder of a North Carolina...
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