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Book Review: Blackbird Rising – A novel of the American Spirit
On June 17th 2015, nine people were shot dead in a church in Charleston, S.C.. The shooter was a young man who claimed that he was motivated by ethnic prejudice. Though it was first published six years ago, my reading of Gary Earl Ross’ BLACKBIRD RISING: A Novel of the American Spirit bracketed that tragic…
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Charleston, SC
Sometimes you just wish the world would stop for a moment to think. Why is our society, still, so brutal and primitive? Life goes on, as it must, as it should; death is an illusion inside a dream. Yet it is painful to see how much unnecessary suffering we inflict on ourselves and on each…