Articles written by: Diane Weber Bederman
Cardi B. High Culture meets Joe Biden
Trigger Warning: This post may make you sick. Did you know Cardi B is a star? So much so that she was given the opportunity to interview Joe Biden! WOW! What an honour. For both of them. She wants racial equality. And she tells us Trump’s mouth gets...
White Supremacy brought to you by an East African, Black, Muslim Woman
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character”. Martin Luther King Jr. Experts have inundated us with lectures and books about white...
Death is calling: From the Chinese Virus and Socialism
Leonard Cohen asked "Who is calling?" Death is calling. Death from the Chinese Virus and "calls" for socialism. And who by fire, who by water Who in the sunshine, who in the night time Who by high ordeal, who by common trial Who in your merry merry month of may...
What is the Trump Virus?
Nancy Pelosi now calls Covid 19, the virus that came to us from China, as the Trump Virus. Well she has the right name but wrong symptoms. The Trump virus has nothing to do with respiratory failure, or organ failure. Oh no. This virus attacks the brain cells of...
If Black Lives really mattered…
In the latter half of the 20th century there was a newsman from Buffalo, New York, Irv Weinstein, who ended his newscast with “It’s 11 o’clock, Do you know where your children are?” Perhaps we need to amend that to “Do you know where your children are most of...
In the name of diversity will the inclusion of Indigenous Elder Knowledge be the end of science?
Indigenous ways of knowing have been suppressed and marginalized throughout academic history and we are finally gaining momentum in elevating Indigenous knowledges as equally valid to Western science.
“Jews are our dogs” say Muslims in Canada
How is this for a rallying cry: “Jews are our dogs”? Canada, are you OK with this? I have to assume so because no one said a word when predominantly Muslim students shared that statement, July 4 in Mississauga, Ontario at Celebration Square at the “Mississauga...
Dear Jews: Too many of you don’t even know what it is you are not to forget
Just before he was beheaded, Daniel Pearl said: "My mother is Jewish. My father is Jewish. I am a Jew." I was out the other day and heard this most upsetting statement: You don’t vote for a political party just because of the way they treat Jews....
Tear it down? It’s all about tearing down freedom.
Victor Davis Hanson wrote “Much of the country believes that America is racist, cruel, and incapable of self-correction of its so-called original sins — without a radical erasure of much of its past history, traditions, and customs.” How sad is that? ...
The stories my father never told me
I wonder what my father would say if he saw people bending the knee to others in shame for being so privileged after everything he survived, never complaining, perhaps pretending it never happened?
