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Marvin T. Brown
Jan 27, 2021
Better or Different
If something is going in the wrong direction, the worst thing you can do is to “make it better.” Ok, “Build Back Better” Is better than...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jan 18, 2021
The Voice of Social Justice
As I approached the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in the month before the pandemic, I heard a recording of Dr. King’s voice, a voice...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jan 11, 2021
Our choice: Unity or Justice
The essential contribution of African Americans in the election of Joe Biden and in the election of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff...
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Marvin T. Brown
Dec 22, 2020
The Glory and the Story
The “glory,” of course, is a baby’s birth. In her book The Human Condition, (1958) the philosopher Hannah Arendt defines human birth or...
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Marvin T. Brown
Dec 8, 2020
The Resiliency of Evil
What happened? Wasn’t Trump and his cohorts supposed to disappear after Biden won the election. I imagined them playing golf and then...
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Marvin T. Brown
Nov 30, 2020
Black Lives Matter and Thanks-taking
The. response to the claim “Black Lives Matter” that “all lives matter,” may be a sign that the speakers are unaware of the climate of...
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Marvin T. Brown
Nov 17, 2020
71 Million and National Unity
We elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. That’s majority rule! Yet, seventy-one millions of us voted for a racist predator who has...
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Marvin T. Brown
Nov 1, 2020
Should we stop using the “P” word?
We know the “N” word is out-of-bounds in most conversations, what about the “P” word? As you may have read, the voters of Rhode Island...
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Marvin T. Brown
Oct 27, 2020
White Men of Nebraska
So, what are white men good for? They seem to be good for Trump. According to recent pieces by Michael Sokolove (10/25) and Charles M....
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Marvin T. Brown
Oct 15, 2020
My Interview with Ann Coney Barrett
This interview may seem a bit strange, since I composed the whole thing. Still, your nomination to the Supreme Court raises some...
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Marvin T. Brown
Oct 8, 2020
How To Protect What We Share
First lesson from 2020: We cannot protect what we have without protecting what we share. In Southern Oregon, fires destroyed the small...
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Marvin T. Brown
Sep 30, 2020
What Kind of Trouble Are We In?
We are in trouble. Is it “good trouble” as advocated by John Lewis, or some other kind? Are we heading toward something like the...
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Marvin T. Brown
Sep 22, 2020
The Problem with Fallen Angels
If you are a true believer, or maybe even a person with a lively imagination, it’s not that hard to think that the fires, floods, and...
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Marvin T. Brown
Sep 15, 2020
Are Reparations Necessary?
If reparations are necessary, then they are the only way to change the current course of “American Prosperity,” if I may use that term to...
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Marvin T. Brown
Sep 1, 2020
What Happens When Fear Encounters Justice?
Franklin Roosevelt famously said, “The only thing to fear is fear itself.” That was in 1933, at the depth of the Depression, and he...
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Marvin T. Brown
Aug 19, 2020
Why we need Contextual Thinking
Instead of saying “consider the source” when we hear something strange, we could also say “consider the context. While the first option...
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Marvin T. Brown
Aug 4, 2020
Why we should cancel the Presidential debates
If you were visiting from almost anywhere, you would want to know why we have over 154,000 coronavirus deaths. One answer is the lack of...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jul 22, 2020
Does America have a Soul?
There’s a battle going on, that’s for sure, but is it for the “Soul of America” as Joe Biden has suggested? Let’s do what we can to get...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jul 1, 2020
When is it a mistake to agree to disagree?
Sometimes “we cannot just get along” because we don’t see a deeper mutuality that underlies our conflict. And sometimes, we become so...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jun 23, 2020
Living in a Climate of Injustice
The basic premise of this Project, as you might have guessed, is that we are living in a climate of injustice. If you ever wondered if...
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