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Critical Race Theory and Coherence
The challenge of Critical Race Theory is not so much about canceling culture but rather about deciding what we should emphasize in...

Marvin T. Brown
Jul 27, 2021


Resetting our American Thermostat
Did you ever wonder what prevents us from moving closer to a climate of justice—a social predisposition for fairness? Could it be a kind...

Marvin T. Brown
Jul 14, 2021


A Case for Reparations
Paying people for unpaid labor seems like a no-brainer, except for the facts of the case, then things get complicated. From the...

Marvin T. Brown
Jul 1, 2021


The Abolition of the Master Class
Juneteenth is now a national holiday: a day to celebrate the freeing of enslaved Africans. What has not been announced is what this means...

Marvin T. Brown
Jun 18, 2021


The White Storm
Some of us thought that President Biden’s victory would take the wind out of the White Storm, but that became wishful thinking after the...

Marvin T. Brown
May 25, 2021


Pie in the Sky, Mud in Your Eye
You’re walking down the street, looking at the sky and “oops” there is mud in your eye. Why? Because you were not paying attention. The...

Marvin T. Brown
May 12, 2021


The American Tragedy
There are different kinds of tragedy, but the American one follows a rather typical pattern. Unknown or denied past events cause one’s...

Marvin T. Brown
May 4, 2021
Biden’s Mistake
Ok, I’m not sure, Biden is certainly better than Trump. Still, it seems like President Biden has not made the voting rights bills his...

Marvin T. Brown
Apr 13, 2021


Reflections after 50 posts
When I started this blog, I thought my book, Climate of justice, An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism, would appear sometime in...

Marvin T. Brown
Mar 10, 2021


What to Replace and What to Repair
You can replace some things. Some you cannot. Sometimes, you can follow Buckminster Fuller’s famous saying: "You never change things by...

Marvin T. Brown
Mar 2, 2021


To be Born or Created
We won’t change our social climate to a climate of justice without changing our language. Words matter. If you question that, what would...

Marvin T. Brown
Feb 23, 2021


Thinking like a Civilian
All of us are civilians most of the time, but many of us rarely think like one. If we are to save the planet, we had better get on board....

Marvin T. Brown
Feb 9, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Jan 27, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Jan 18, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Jan 11, 2021


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...

Marvin T. Brown
Dec 22, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Dec 8, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Nov 30, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Nov 17, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Nov 1, 2020
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