Del Spurlock: Many Trayvon’s More? Deja Vu from 2013…

Many Trayvon’s More? Civics is study of how we govern ourselves. Can we agree that we govern ourselves through our Constitution, our laws, customs, popular culture, and habits, and how all of these things interact to create our way of life? Let’s call the analysis of that interaction connecting the dots. You were left with …

Del Spurlock: Mary McGrory on Telling Off The President About the Squandering of Black Youth Development

Telling Off The President Mary McGrory, The Washington Post, May 19, 1992 Speaking truth to power, once the province of courageous Old Testament prophets, is becoming the custom of the country. Just about everyone George Bush meets these days tells him off. Bush asked for this by his clumsy partisan response to the upheaval that …

Del Spurlock: The US Army, The US Constitution, & US Society

1986 Speech: Army Days San Francisco, CA Armies are not inherently disciplined, nor responsive to the will of the people in whose name they purport to act. Armies are not innately well led, nor representative of the societies from which they spring, nor humane in the treatment of those, within or without their ranks, subject …