Author Archives: steinharterm

I listened to an interesting podcast (Sway) whereby a rap star named Killer Mike was interviewed. I’m not much of a rap fan, but this is an interesting guy. He was angry after George Floyd was murdered by that police officer. Many people were angry and had a right to be of course; it wasContinue reading “Magneto v Professor X”

As a follow up to my “how can I help” post, I’d like to double back on one of the books I mentioned. I have just recently finished reading Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson. Wilkerson wrote The Warmth of Other Suns, which I read back when it came out, and gave 5* on Goodreads. Caste justContinue reading “Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson – a review”

This seems to be a reasonable question and a common one. If the context is structural racism and the Black Lives Matter movement, the question takes on some currency and for some people some urgency. Let’s assume you are not black (if you are black, you probably know how you can help and don’t needContinue reading “How can I help?”

Seems like a really dumb question, ya? We watch our current buffoon of a president lie all the time and I assume that most of us think it’s a shame. Yet many people – millions of them, if the news is to believed – really don’t care if he tells the truth or not. SomeContinue reading “How Important is Telling the Truth?”

I had an idea once. It may have been my best idea. ever. Oh, and I stole it (modified it) from someone I sat next to on a plane. Here it is… When we moved to Australia, my kids were 8, 6, 4 and 6 months old, as indicated in my last entry. As IContinue reading “the “16 trips””

In many of the interesting and important books being written about racism, structural racism, white fragility and the like an important point is made about bias. We all have some baked-in bias, based on who we are, where we were born, where we are on the socio-economic scale of whichever country we are in. There’sContinue reading “Travel fights ignorance”

This is a personal blog, so don’t look here for answers to solving problems like the pandemic, economic chaos, structural racism or preposterous leadership in the USA (and other nations). No matter who you are, 2020 is a….oh, well, choose your own descriptor, we all know what it is. I am lucky, and wish toContinue reading “2020 – what to do about it”

Every blogger has a first blog. This is mine. There’s nothing special about it other than the fact that it’s mine. I am not a celebrity and don’t anticipate attracting much viewership. Who knows if my family will even find this (unless I send it to them and insist the offer supportive comments). Why blogContinue reading “First”