White People: We Have Never Been the Black Person’s friend
This morning I find myself back in Idaho sitting on a front porch drinking coffee and staring at...
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Category: Commentary
Reflections on Police Violence
“Is this the Revolution?” I asked, half in jest, half in hope. Demonstrators protesting the murder...
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Blackout Tuesday
We at the Typescript, stand together with the African American communities of the United States...
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Democratic Hypocrisy, Joe Biden, and #MeToo
Joe Biden was never my preferred candidate. I am going to vote for him in November, it will be...
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White Fragility, White Privilege… and Conspiracies
In the field of sociology we often discuss privilege as an invisible force field between classes...
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No Rest For the Wicked: One Year of The Typescript
I ran a half-marathon yesterday in the early morning light, all by myself. After 13.1 miles, and...
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We Must Not Become the Thing That We Hate
Social Media has been on a meme frenzy ever since Donald Trump commented that we should try...
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Can Deplorables Be Redeemed?
A few months ago, I wrote columns for both The Typescript and a regional newspaper The Tennessean...
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The Great Cancer Adventure in a Time of Plague
Since being diagnosed in September 2017 with ab aggressive form of cancer that, Robert Hazel has been keeping a survivor journal, “The Great Cancer Adventure…”
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Don’t Forget the Southern Progressives
Every four years we, the American electorate, find ourselves bombarded with messages from “Get Out...
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Dear Libertarian Keyboard Warriors: You Haven’t Researched Shit
Social media has sent my blood pressure to the moon this week. The stupidity of the libertarian,...
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Building a Better Biden
Now that Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the Democratic primary and endorsed Joe Biden, the...
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How Antisemitism and Racism Took Bernie Sanders Down
In the few columns that I have written on race and gender in the past I have pointed out that I do...
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Dying for Freedom and Jesus
This weekend I spent part of my quarantine time laughing at YouTube video clips of Pastor Kenneth...
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Education: COVID-19’s Next Victim
There is always at least one class meeting n my introduction to Sociology course where I discuss...
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The Economic Amorality of the Right
There are times, especially when you are confined to your house by a “shelter in place” order,...
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Ecstasies of the Viral Apocalypse
“Just purchased 4 rolls of toilet paper, kinda feel like Indiana Jones.” My friend had just...
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It’s Not About Progress
For the past month, actions in support of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs have taken place...
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Focusing the Message: How Bernie Sanders Needs to Talk to Americans
I have spent a lot of time thinking about the Soviet Union and China in the past few weeks. These...
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On Wokeness
I was watching a group of white people on Twitter last Tuesday night celebrate how...
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