William Ryan published his book, Blaming the Victim, in 1971. That is over 40 ago. His topic was how dominant culture justified racism and social injustice by blaming the victims–Black Americans. The book was basically a response to Harvard’s Patrick Daniel Moynihan’s Black Families, which laid the blame for much of the plight of Afro-Americans at the foot of black culture. However, Ryan coined a phrase that resonates across the decades, in fact across centuries of American social life. Anyone with a mindless commitment to the current power structure uses… Read more Problems with Police? You are to Blame! →
Roughly five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s. Approximately, 50 percent of U.S. Citizens Who reach the age of 80 will contract the disease. All these numbers make Alzheimer’s disease mega… Read more Battling Alzheimer’s With Correct Answers to the Wrong Questions →
When I was growing up in West Texas, a common statement in some circles, and I now know it was a vulgar one in all circles went something like, “Well,… Read more Tea-Potters, Mad-hatters, Right-Wingers, and a Ball of Confusion →
American political life has….served again and again as an arena for uncommonly angry minds. Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style of American Politics In 2001, Richard Reid attempted to light his… Read more THE GUN LOBBY AND FIREARM FASCISM IN AMERICA →
A few years ago a retired fireman in Texas videotaped his armed encounter with neighbors. He used all the right words for a stand your ground defense. ” I have… Read more Donald Trump’s True Colors–the telltale detail. →
