The legacy of awesome black people, John Lewis in particular
By CALIBE THOMPSON John Lewis is a living legend. A civil rights leader who marched alongside Martin Luther King in peaceful protest for civil rights, …
President Punany Grabber and the ripple effect of stupid leadership
By CALIBE THOMPSON I took a break last week in the hopes of finding more hopeful things to think. In my personal and professional life, …
Building our village in 2017
By CALIBE THOMPSON If you’ve ever tuned into “The Secret,” you know it’s important to start your day with positive thoughts, regardless of what happened …
Low down, dirty Republicans and the hijacking of America
By CALIBE THOMPSON So how is it that Democrats won almost three million presidential votes more overall but lost the election? And how is it …
How to avoid destroying your parent-child relationship
CALIBE THOMPSON A friend recently shared with me the torment her daughter and family have been going through over the past year, and some awful …
Like second class citizens in the new America
By CALIBE THOMPSON As I listened to an attractive, bleached blonde millennial TV pundit by the name of Tomi Lahren in an exchange with talk …
Mr. Trump, we don’t accept you
Dear Mr. Trump, Although I usually try to squash any vitriol I feel from public display beyond my social media feeds, I’ll blame this note …
America’s diminishing greatness
By CALIBE THOMPSON America today has a fundamentally flawed outlook on “greatness.” It’s directly tied to money, but apparently not to human decency. A strong …
Now that we are officially “Other”…
By CALIBE THOMPSON I am a passionate advocate of the movement to flip the election outcome. Last week, I shared one of the many posts …
A final rant about false equivalency
By CALIBE THOMPSON ‘False equivalency’ is a term we didn’t hear nearly enough in this election cycle, but it was the term I believe was …