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No worse for wear
Tough, or centered?
William Tell
Nov 15, 20192 min read
Just the person
I’ve been working toward this for years.
I suspect this is how clairvoyants see the world.
William Tell
Oct 4, 20191 min read
My life as Chiron
In short, I believe my past lives include that of Chiron, a centaur who lived, if he did live, ca. 1400 B.C.E., the same era as Moses. My preoccupation with race dates from that and similar lives.
William Tell
Feb 22, 20196 min read


Dwight C. Wells
What does black America gain from flipping the bird at white people?
William Tell
Feb 3, 20195 min read


“I shoulda had somebody crack your head open.”
I was abused at McDonald’s.
William Tell
Dec 14, 20187 min read
Wisdom teaching in poor black homes
Family classes tied to better school performance for poor kids On re-reading the article, I find that my memory was wrong: the program did not consist primarily of in-home interventions. Practically everything occurred outside the home. Note how much intense training the parents received. “Wisdom,” as I have used the term, refers principally to emotional intelligence or emotional maturity. I have discussed before (1) (2) how chaotic versus orderly contexts inhibit the dev
William Tell
Dec 11, 20161 min read
Poverty, not racism, causes the achievement gap
Know for certain: there are slums in Stockholm.
And Belfast.
And Vienna.
And the children who grow up there fare no better, relative their mainstream peers, than is the case in the United States.
We will never understand the causes of poverty among black folk until we understand them among white folk also.
William Tell
Dec 5, 20161 min read


America’s silent menace
The silent menace • Atrocity in Rio • A hidden epidemic
William Tell
Jun 19, 20163 min read


Why racism no longer matters to me
The last straw for certain things came with a Baltimore Sun front page banner headline: I anticipate no response from Julia Craven, Jenee Desmond-Harris, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Stacey Patton, or Brittney Cooper.[*] What was the last straw? In short, it’s time for me to stop concerning myself with racism and race. All my life, I’ve been intensely concerned about both. Countless hours have gone into agonizing over any possible solution. One version of my conclusion is, there is non
William Tell
Sep 11, 20157 min read
The great questions of our time
In recent weeks it has been a matter of some chagrin to me that my Yahoo! News feed keeps bringing articles from major outlets that prove in my estimation to have far less merit than my own; while my own work continues to be ignored.
William Tell
Apr 17, 20152 min read
* My homeless self: White “resentment” and black power
“Generations of slavery and discrimination make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower classes.” Do you agree with that statement? If not, you harbor resentment toward blacks. That is the premise, not the conclusion, of a recent study by three political scientists
William Tell
Jan 24, 20146 min read


Rat empathy; Secret weapon against poverty; etc.
Topics in this post: Rat empathy ● Secret weapon ● Marriage a “luxury good?” ● Hero of cancer research
William Tell
Jan 19, 20142 min read
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