North of 49

I started writing this on Oct 19 2020 and I couldn't help but think we  have so many fires in the world and a shortage of buckets! So  I'm going to look at a few of the issues which I think are important to North Americans specifically and the world in general. It'll be over a half dozen posts and this one has been very educational and that is what I aim to do educate myself.  LOL Today  I'll focus on the history of racial violence in the USA and why? Because I started to look at this subject starting with the Watts riot of 1965 and just kept going back and my lack of knowledge embarrassed me .  As  a white Canadian boy the history of the black population to the south was not in my frame of reference. The only thing I knew about black history was that the civil war freed the slaves and the modern condition of the Afro-American was shown to me through sit coms like The  Jefferson's . I had no reason to explore the inequities of blacks in America becaus...

                                  I listened to audio clips from the last debate                                                                  between President Trump                                     and                                               Vice President Biden                                                                           ...

So I have made the acquaintance of yet another independent intelligent woman. A very interesting woman someone who is convinced that an impoverished nation like Haiti is worth living in while working at improving the conditions of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. She is someone who sees the hopelessly poor people in rural Haiti as the part of the social spectrum of this tiny country on which to focus. She does see a future for Haiti but there is a lot to do in the present so much that the future is far in the distance damn near beyond the horizon. Her  name is Laura Allan and she is the head of Shelters International Disaster Response a very small ngo operating out of Jacmel Haiti. Besides being the poorest and one of the most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere it lays in hurricane alley so the tension on this Island,  no matter the sociopolitical atmosphere,  rises as June comes and with it the hurricane season. Because of poor to no infras...

Propostlogue: I sit at the screen and have a drink of beer contemplating what I shall have for dinner and I can't help but think of those humans that haven't even shelter let alone a beer fridge a car a computer etc etc So what you say and figure that you should bail now before I start telling you that we should open our borders wide and let those people come into our country or your country to get a better deal in life. I am not writing  to do that as I do not feel it is a viable economic solution. I feel we need to invest wisely in the third world but not so much by migration but through mitigation.  I am sensitive to the plight of others in places that make Canada look so good and it is that which keeps me very grateful to be born here and be white. I do truly understand how privileged I am by the virtue of those two facts and the third privilege is that I have a penis! I am missing fortune and fame but it is after all the western civilization where anything is possibl...