No Skin In The Game

New York Slave Revolt ► Throwback Thursday
New York Slave Revolt ► Throwback Thursday
We have to go all the way back to 1712, before this country was even a country, for this week’s Throwback Thursday. At the time New York City was merely a small town, in a province of Britain, on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean. The crown colony known as New York (as opposed to old York, of course) was much larger than the current state. It included “all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware ...
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The Ferguson Riots ► No Skin In The GameThe Ferguson Riots ► No Skin In The Game
Gordon Lightfoot’s autograph on a picture of my father’s store taken in Detroit on THE “Black Day In July,” 1967. A question I have been asked repeatedly since Monday night is ...
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No Skin In The Game; Part OneNo Skin In The Game; Part One
The flyer handed out by the protestors. Thursday night was another night for divided loyalties and for putting things into stark relief. Let me explain. In Coral Gables protestors from West Grove ...
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