Dr. Zil Roars (Paul H. White, Ph.D.)

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

Awesome! Yep, basically the same spot! I enjoy a good oddmatch, especially when random as that is not a place most folks would think is scenic.

Thanks! Just my routine cardiologist check up (every 6 months).

Ties into my #LentKing2026 excerpt from yesterday that I posted today!

#WorkingToFix2026

Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive YouTube video by GloriaGaynorVEVO

Song 2: youtu.be/6dYWe1c3OyU?...

No More Drama YouTube video by Mary J. Blige - Topic

#BHW2Concert Day 6: Standing up on your terms . . .

Song 1: youtu.be/yqK8YeZYqbA?...

At Last YouTube video by Etta James - Topic

Song 2: youtu.be/1qJU8G7gR_g?...

Chaka Khan - Through the Fire (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster] YouTube video by Chaka Khan

#BHW2Concert Day 5: Sometimes you just got to slow things down & keep focused.

Song 1: youtu.be/TjWmw-8-OEk?...

9/9 This, this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him." (pp. 170-171)

8/ exploited that history has been. Yes, I was a slave through my foreparents, and now I'm not ashamed of that. I'm ashamed of the people who were so sinful to make me a slave.' Yes, yes, we must stand up and say, 'I'm black, but I'm black and beautiful.'

7/ "And with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and say to himself and to the world, 'I am somebody. I am a person. I am a man with dignity and honor. I have a rich and noble history, however painful and

6/ and thereby perpetuate his false sense of superiority. The tendency to ignore the Negro's contributions to American life and strip him of his personhood is as old as the earliest history books and as contemporary as the morning's newspaper." (p. 170)

5/ Ossie Davis has suggested that maybe the English language should be reconstructed so that teachers will not be forced to teach teh Negro child sixty ways to despise himself and thereby perpetuate his false sense of inferiority, and the while child 134 ways to adore himself

4/ grim, devil, and foul. And there are some 134 synonyms for whiteness and all are favorable, expressed in such words as purity, cleanliness, chastity, and innocence. A white lie is better than a black lie. The most degenerate member of a family is the 'black sheep.'

3/ view/think about groups (e.g., "black comedy" vs. "comedy")

"Even semantics have conspired to make the which is black seem ugly and degrading. In Roget's Thesaurus there are some 120 synonyms for blackness and at least sixty of them are offensive, such words as blot, soot,

2/ in 1967. This section is something my Intergroup Relations students hear about in a slightly different way when I discuss how groups may change the meaning of negative labels that are placed upon them to be positive, and how such words can and do have impact on how we

Thread: Yesterday's #LentKing2026 from The Radical King: I neglected to post an excerpt. It has been quite some time since I read this speech "Where Do We Go From Here?", which was Dr. King's last Presidential address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) /1

1857: Supreme Court upholds slavery in Dred Scott decision On this day in 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld slavery in Dred Scott v. Sandford.

#OnThisDay in 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld slavery as an institution. Justices ruled that Black Americans, whether slave or free, had no right to sue. Two months later, Dred Scott won his freedom, setting off celebrations in the North.
mississippitoday.org/2025/03/06/1...

US grants waiver to allow India to buy Russian oil amid Iran war ‘Stopgap measure’ designed to keep oil flowing into global market as Middle East crisis disrupts crude shipments

I just . . .

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘J’ is the most recent letter added to the alphabet.

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It is funny how others get to label us, yet tend not to want to accept the labels we give ourselves at times, even within our "ingroups".

I can see that kind of maneuvering by them. For DHS issues, that would be worse. Not sure if Paxton would go for it. Now if Bondi is let go, that I could see being attractive to him. Then again, he can flaunt things around Texas with DHS.

Who is running for Owens’s spot?

Yes, I am just below it (was up at the hospital).

Final: BYU 70, @UTAHWBB 52.

Game felt like the one in Provo. Hoping for tournament bid.

Go #CrimsonCraze!

End of 3rd: BYU 51, @UTAHWBB 43. Flip the script!

Go #CrimsonCraze!

Halftime: BYU 27, @UTAHWBB 36. Keep grinding & moving.

Go #CrimsonCraze!