Posts by Bill Lyne

THE WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS    by Bill Lyne The great Black American poet Langston Hughes called the 1920s the time “when the Negro was in Vogue.”  Harlem Renaissance art and culture were all the rage and rich white folks showed how woke they were by heading uptown to listen to Duke Ellington and Count…

COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE by Bill Lyne Four years of the Trump syndicate topped off with a global pandemic has crystallized the sly increments of loss that have piled up over the past fifty years.  And it turns out that a functioning capitalist democracy needs a few things that aren’t driven solely by the logic of a…

ICE COLD by Bill Lyne So the Trump administration wants students of all ages back in the classroom come September, assuming, we must suppose, that if it’s good enough for meat packing plants, it’s good enough for schools.  Some political genius in the West Wing thinks that forcing millions of students into conditions that turn…