by David Morse | In the News
As appeared in HispanicAd.com My grandmother’s parents emigrated from Romania in the early twentieth century. They spoke only Yiddish. My grandmother grew up in Boston and was bilingual, though clearly English preferred. My father understood a little Yiddish, but...
by David Morse | In the News
It’s June, the month that cities around the country celebrate LGBTQI pride. Lots of corporations celebrate too, because they don’t see the risk in supporting the gay community that they once did. Gay has gone mainstream. And that’s great. But whenever something is...
by David Morse | In the News
I’ll start with a caveat. Not every police shooting of an unarmed black man is just about race. Ferguson, Missouri may have been an exception; an investigation uncovered a history of ugly racial bias in the mostly-white police force – not to mention the entire city...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
A new report is out from the ACLU that shows black Americans were unfairly targeted by banks in the run-up to the housing crisis. The report says that blacks were subjected to redlining, or denying services and being charged more for services. How blacks suffered far...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
There’s a reason for that. Today, after a young white supremacist opened fire in South Carolina’s historic black church, killing nine, we get the usual apologists who say: – Well the government couldn’t have stopped this. – Guns...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
By now you’ve probably seen or heard about the video of McKinney, Texas, Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt’s outrageous and abusive behavior toward a group of black teens at a pool party celebrating the end of the school year, which included pulling a gun on...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Did you know that Emma Stone was half-Asian? We didn’t either. Actually she isn’t. She’s very white. But that didn’t stop Cameron Crowe from casting her as a quarter-native Hawaiian, quarter-Chinese character for his new movie...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
This is not a surprise, but it’s nice to see this trend validated by statistics. A strong majority of U.S. Hispanics speak English or are bilingual, according to an analysis of the Pew Research Center’s 2013 National Survey of Latinos. Hispanics in the...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
The First Lady went there. Reactions are coming in from Michelle Obama’s commencement speech at Tuskegee University over the weekend. She said the graduating classes of 2015 – and the next generation of African Americans – will still face racism. “Because...
by David Morse | In the News
The Baltimore riots post-mortems are in, and the results are predictable. Pundits are questioning whether the mayor should have done this, or the police should have done that. And, of course, there is the widespread condemnation. President Obama said there was no...
