Posts by anitteb

WHY? Could it possibly be because a long established entry exam was doing its job of keeping minorities admitted to Harvard to a minumum? Was it doing a fantastic job of keeping Harvard’s freshman class members mostly members of this society’s “better than” majority with only a few minorities admitted to “disprove the rule”? Or…

by: Marceline Donaldson Life is amazing. The older I get the more my life, my past history, delivers amazement to me. It has given me an exposure to people, power, things that today I realize does not ordinarily happen. We shield our children from those outside of the box in which our families have put…

So much is happening with the United States trying to maintain its bigotry and at the same time push forward its claims that it is working hard to acknowledge the past and move into an area of equality, diversity, etc. etc. The most aggregious has been the Congressional hearing just ended with the three women…

We see things happening in the news – relevant history, but most of us are not old enough to remember actual historical events from generations past connected to the present without being an obvious and clear connection. One that we in the Bettina Network who are of an age remember is the connection between Donald…

by: Marceline Donaldson Watching a television documentary this morning about ice farming in Maine brought back enormous and very emotional memories. I loved to stay with my great-grandmother who we called – Grandma Bucksell. Whenever I could, I walked from my house to hers because she and my Uncle George Adams had so many great…

by: Marceline Donaldson Everytime I hear reference to Joe Biden’s age, I cringe. Why? Because I am older than President Biden – now 85 years old – and functioning with no problems. Amazingly, I know lots of people much younger who are not functioning as well. However, comments would be made to take me down…

We have not written anything about Donald Trump for quite some time. So many others picked up the cudgel that we didn’t see where we had anything different to say. Today, however, as we read, listen to and take in the past, what seems to us most important about Trump is being totally ignored. Where…

We are at the start of the 2024 race for president of the United States. As we enter this phase we see where the emphasis of the bigots will be placed. Usually it is on the most financially, economically, etc. viable areas to destroy them for others and shepherd them into our own small part…