My Vietnam military experience was spent as a section leader for the Fire and Direction Control for a 105 mm towed howitzer unit. We did the calculations for howitzers and directed fire to prescribed targets. One of our jobs was directing Harassment & Interdiction fire. “In 1965, the U.S. military in South Vietnam began conducting […]
Phill Briscoe
Black Conservatives VS Black Republicans
Recently, I posted on Facebook an article about “Black Conservatives” and as usual I got no response or a single because “Black people are Democrats”. That was heartbreak for my dear departed mother in law. I contend that is a propaganda ploy or better yet a misperception fo many people, including Black people. In an […]
What are we going to do next?
Whether we want to or not, as Black people, most of us are always conscious of race because our lives depend on it. Not just because there has been another Black male shot down in the street but because we exist in this country built on the exploitation and the suppression of our race; suppression […]
An Awakening
I grew up believing in social integration. I was the only Black kid in my kindergarten class, that pattern was often repeated over the years, and the perceived goal, at that time, for Black folk was social integration as the means to rise up and become better Americans. I wanted to be a better American, […]