Perspective

By: Mike Robertson Special to the Milwaukee Times What exactly do we mean when we put these two words together? How do we identify Kindness and how do we show we actually Love kindness? In this case Love is a verb which requires specific action. So, as we begin this column let us realize that merely admiring or acknowledging acts of kindness is not what we are suggesting. … [Read more...] about Love kindness

People have an unnatural addiction to misery. This is one reason CNN and MSNBC report news constantly without interruption. They are supplying misery for consumption by the viewer to satisfy their need. The viewer is the addict and media is the dealer. The media isn’t the only suppliers of misery. Misery is big business and others have stepped up to supply the masses. Family is … [Read more...] about Misery and addiction

History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it. – Howard Zinn Were my African ancestors, who were stolen at gunpoint from their homes and families, dragged in chains into the dark and crowded cargo hulls … [Read more...] about Teaching the truth about America’s history: Only the truth can make us free

As the world turns there are more examples of ugliness in society. The humans on this planet are being bombarded with a constant stream of negativity. The society we live in is caught between greed and extinction. As of today, the former is driving the people to the latter. This isn’t a race issue, but a humanity issue. As a person you have to find a safe place for yourself. … [Read more...] about Find your safe place

  At first glance, it seems that we are making some progress by what people are saying, stories written, town hall meetings held, radio talk shows, big plans being suggested and a “blue ribbon committee” being formed that will study the problem and find a solution. But just like some real live “magic act” and after some time the “big idea” somehow just disappeared into … [Read more...] about Let’s be upfront

“Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.” –Pope Francis “Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can … [Read more...] about The piercing cry of child poverty in economically rich but spiritually poor America

The local and national elections for 2016 are shaping up to be one for the record books in terms of who is running for some kind of public office. If you think that things are interesting now with some of the non-politicians leading in the early polls... just wait, there is more to come...for there will be more people filing their papers and paying filing fees soon. Of … [Read more...] about Looking for a party

Damien Durr is a brilliant young man who grew up in Ohio in a family of teachers where education was always stressed. No one—including Damien—ever thought he wouldn’t finish high school. When his father, grandfather and aunt all died within a short time of each other as he was starting high school it shook him off his solid foundation. But through his terrible grief he kept … [Read more...] about Young Black males: Pushed out and pushed away

We have been trained to believe that worry is a part of life. We worry about things that are mostly out of our control. We worry about other people’s problems not realizing there is nothing we can do about them. Like masochists we seek out reasons to worry to keep our ulcers burning. What if we could be free of worry and their sibling, problems? How many people would give up … [Read more...] about No worries can be a reality