“Are You Scared, Sir?” Part II

At one of the local high schools, a student would not stop talking with another groups of students. When I asked him to move his seat three times, he refused, calling me a “N—–er”. I fired back, ” I am not a slave! Don’t call me...

“Are You Scared, Sir?”

My first day at Central Juvenile Hall, near Downtown Los Angeles, one of the students shouted at me:”Are you scared, sir?”Of course I was, but you never let a student in on that, especially criminals on trial trying to fight their fitness hearing. I got...

“Stories Politics” Obama and Reagan

Obama and Reagan are great communicators. They both knew how to light up a crowd with soaring rhetoric. They both knew how to appeal to the innate vanity of the crowd:Ronald Reagan called the American people “heroes.”Obama declared, “We are the...