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A Commentary on the Life of Jeannette Rankin
/10 Comments/in Featured Articles/by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.Jeannette Rankin My daughter Dee, as I’ll call her here, has just finished her sophomore year in college. One of the jobs I’ve taken on is to direct her to sources and people she’s not encountering in her life—in school, mass entertainment, and the internet (which looks to me to come down to wall-to-wall TikTok). […]
Thoughts Prompted by “Rich Men North of Richmond”: Including One About Celebration
/7 Comments/in Featured Articles, General/by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.I’ve been especially taken by the “Rich Men North of Richmond” phenomenon that’s so big in the news these days (it’s late August of ‘23). As you know—no need for a lot of exposition here—it’s a song by a heretofore unknown singer/songwriter who goes by the name of Oliver Anthony. As The New York Times […]
An Exchange with a Newspaper Reporter
/7 Comments/in Featured Articles, White Racial Consciousness and Advocacy/by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.In the first half of May, 2023, I received an email from John Terhune, a reporter for the Portland Press Herald newspaper in Portland, Maine, who was working on a story about White racial activism that resulted in an email exchange between us. I’ve decided what we wrote each other might be of worth to […]
Thoughts Upon David Crosby’s Death
/57 Comments/in Featured Articles/by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.The opposite of a good thing can be counted on to also be a good thing. That reality—as I see it, anyway—prompts me to think about the opposite of whatever I consider true and valuable to discern how it might be true and valuable. Giving impetus to this activity is the assumption that, whether it […]
A Tenth White American Voice
/18 Comments/in General/by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.Recently (it’s now January, 2023) I wrote a couple of articles that provide the backdrop for what’s here: “The American Political System and White Discourse”; and “Nine American White Voices.” The thrust of the two was the suggestion that a possible underpinning for American White racial advocacy is this country’s political and cultural heritage, with […]