Is it not possible that the time has come for us to start learning what we already know?
Author: Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler (koehlercw@gmail.com), syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor. He is the author of 'Courage Grows Strong at the Wound'.
OPINION: Armed Racism Keeps No One Safe
We do not need policing disconnected from the community it allegedly protects: policing with a “siege mentality”…
OPINION: War Comes to Your Local Supermarket
“This cannot be our new normal. We should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores. We should be able to feel safe in our schools, in our movie theaters and in our communities…”
OPINION: The Return of Jim Crow
This puts voter suppression into the deep context of American racism. The wound is still wide open…
OPINION: Vulnerability
I’m a Midwesterner. I’ve dealt with snow all my life. OK, so there’s two feet of it out there in my yard — that’s no problem, right?
OPINION: National and Human Security
Finally, they pepper spray the handcuffed child. Her screaming intensifies…
OPINION: Restoring the Soul of America
The last time I heard a Democratic politician at the top of his party truly, vulnerably stand for restoring the nation’s soul was in 1972…