Category: Wisdom
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Have you ever had someone suddenly disappear from an organization? I first saw it happen in the 1990s when I began working in the Research and Accountability Department of the Houston Independent School District after graduate school. It happened more than once. Each time it was a shock. One day a colleague was there. The…
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I received a shocking Father’s Day present today, and it carries a lesson for all of us about authority. It came in the form of a phone call informing me that my 18-year-old daughter had been abandoned at the Toledo train station after midnight by her boss, Pastor Joe Ottinger, Director of Camp Mohaven and…
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Juneteenth is often described as a celebration of freedom. It is. But it is also a reminder that freedom, opportunity, and recognition arrive later than they should. When enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom on June 19, 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation had already been signed more than two years earlier. Freedom had been…
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A news story stopped me in my tracks this week. Following a UFC event held on White House grounds, fighter Josh Hokit used his post-fight remarks to repeat a false and offensive claim about former First Lady Michelle Obama. He stated, “And lastly, Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?” The comment generated…
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When the FIFA World Cup ends, everyone knows who won. In American life, everyone claims they are winning. Politicians are winning. Companies are winning. Universities are winning. Social media influencers are winning. The question is whether we still agree on what winning actually means. More importantly, who gets to decide? For most of human history,…
Cloaking Inequity 
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