PERSPECTIVE is everything
“Justice in America is like a baby being born. You’ve got to participate in its conception or that baby is never going to look like you.” -Héctor de León, as quoted in Houston Post, Sunday Punch, Heard and Noted, November 13, 1994.
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Big Lie Aside, Restrictive Voting Laws Aim To Stop Shift in Balance of Power Driven by Demographic Change in Texas’ Biggest Counties
CVAP-n-Vote-Comparison-Dallas-n-Harris-CntyDownload Source: US Census American Community Survey Citizen Voting Age Population Estimates for Dallas and Harris County Source: 2000 and 2020 Official and Unofficial Cumulative Election Reports for Dallas and Harris County...
Dissent and the American Struggle Between Good and Evil
“Do you say that it is always good to be a non-conformist because you believe that, almost necessarily, the establishment, the institutions, are going to embody that which is the worst, rather than the best, of humankind? That, under the circumstances, almost...
Are Long Lines to Elections what Traffic Jams are to Commuters? A Lingering Phenomenon
“...in the end, gridlock at polling locations during the conduct of a major Election may simply be a consequence of many citizens choosing to vote at the same time and at the same place when the voter traffic is at its heaviest. “ "This is like gridlock on the...
Complexity and complicity of being human: My father was a misogynist, and I feel guilty
Misogyny exists in every segment of society and takes different forms. This is a lesson I learned witnessing how decisions made by the patriarch of my family had a profound impact on the lives of my sisters. As a pre-teen, I remember my older sister coming home at a...
OPPORTUNITY DISTRICTS: The Unspoken Reality of Race and Congressional Representation
A Houston Chronicle story titled “Houston most Hispanic part of country without Hispanic in Congress” spurred online reader comments promoting the idea that race should not matter in electing a representative from a Congressional “opportunity district” (a political...
THE OMISSION OF HISTORY: The Discussion of Mixed Race Groups in the U.S. Marginalizes Mestizo Americans
In the midst of the historic 2008 Presidential Election, an article about the surge in “Multiracial Americans” and their quest for understanding appeared on the website of a major news organization. The story was about Americans whose origins are of mixed race. It...