The Republican National Committee (RNC) voted this week to keep the 2016 platform, in part due to the intransigence of Democrat governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina. He refused the RNC the opportunity to convene before this year’s Republican national convention. This is customarily when platform issues are reviewed and updates are made. However, the […]
I was born at the end of World War II, into the Boomer generation. At that time, there was systemic racism throughout the United States, not just in the South, as some in other parts of the country would have you believe. The country functioned under laws that divided blacks from all other ethnic groups (even other […]