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The discussion of pending military operations that has been described recently in the press is a serious breach of operational security by the Secretary of Defense. In this short video, I make the case that Congress should initiate an impeachment process against the Secretary of Defense.

The rule of law is under attack. Doing something is important. The special elections in Florida next week and in New York later this year are the fastest possible way to make a difference. This short video offers some suggestions and the web sites of the candidates.

It is time for all of us to pay attention and take some action to support our freedoms and our constitutional rights. Here are some ideas for what you can do now...

The video appended to this post discusses a warning from five former Secretaries of Defense, who all feel the current administration's recent firings of senior people in the Department of Defense is a threat to national security and democracy.

In this final episode, I look again at the statistics I presented in episode 4, showing the disparate impact of our social systems on black Americans, I review two possible explanations for these statistics in the context of the definition of racism, and I read the essay "Fix Your Bias on Race: Start By Admitting It's There" from my 2021 book Close Encounters With Accountability Citizenship.

In this episode, I discuss a conversation I had with a co-worker who believed the assertion that there was racism in our society was the same as the assertion that there was this thing called "white privilege" and that, together, acknowledging the existence of these things was the same as acknowledging that he, as a white man, had not had to work hard to succeed. In this episode, by presenting the definition of racism (again) and a definition of white privilege and some statistics, I propose that accepting the existence of racism is NOT the same as acknowledging that any group or individual has not worked hard to succeed, and that, based on the standard established by the Supreme Court over 60 years ago, outcomes in our society support the idea that white privilege is real and that we still have far to go to eliminate racism in our society.

Racism is real and it is harmful to all of us. All of us (regardless of our race or color) can be racist. While racism in American history has often been extreme, violent and hateful, it can also be present in more subtle ways. In this episode, I present an example that shows some of us may not realize how our beliefs and actions are examples of racism. 

In this 2d episode of my five-part series on racism, I present a real-life example of a conversation between two of my friends that reveals one of them had a prejudicial mindset towards black people (in general), even as they were trying to deny that they had any negative feelings towards the person to whom they were talking....