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Finally watched Birth of a Nation. Yuck.
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According to the dictionary on my computer, the term racism means “the belief that all members of each race possess…
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What is Southern heritage? What is worth celebrating?
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What is heritage? It’s a thing that can be inherited. Heritage is valued objects and qualities: cultural traditions,…
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Hijacking each other’s causes
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Like so many thousands of other people, I was beyond saddened by the senseless, pointless killing of Cecil…
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I want a symbol for ALL of the South
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I’m from Kentucky. I lived there for the first 22 1/2 years of my life. Kentucky was a…
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May Snippets
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In a moment of frustration, I tweeted, “Are any of my Twitter followers real? Are any of them…
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Ethnic, cultural, gender identity – good luck with your definitions
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What makes a person whatever it is they say they are? What makes a person male, female, black,…
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She was convinced she was a failure
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I spent an entire morning crying over this ESPN story of Madison Holleran, a freshman at the University…
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The real me on social media
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On a very popular social networking platform that requires users to use their real names and does not…
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Major Lucy triumph
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Let me mark a major event for Facebook: Lucinda the dog figured out fetch and retrieve tonight. We…
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Lucinda’s first hike! Gravelle Brothers Trail, Tillamook State Forest, Oregon
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Oh how we have been wanting to hike with our pup, Lucy – I asked about it…
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