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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.
An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.
For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.
He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.
Ruminations and provocations.
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How many open-minded people wind up feeling so shamed by liberal identity-blame that they embrace racist extremism? It’s hard to say. But the defensiveness is real, and many who don’t wind up in bigoted cults will feel caught in a Catch-22: The side they agree with will never fully accept them, but they don’t agree with the side that would.
Read MoreOur problem is that we’d still rather spin our wheels with scapegoating and conspiracy theories than work together. Because we don’t trust each other. We’ve forgotten how to look for that spark of commonality in one another’s human eyes, and we’ve chosen instead to focus on how we’re different, and why we’re (supposedly) a threat to one another. Recognizing that spark won’t solve every problem. It’s just a beginning, and there will be a lot of work involved. But beginning is better than never trying.
Read MoreIn three short months, some white Americans have grown so impatient to “get back to their normal lives” that they’re willing to sweep the image of a man being brutally suffocated under the rug. How long, it must be asked, have Black Americans been waiting to get back to a normal life?
Read MoreTrump is like a quack doctor who ignores the cause of a disease (racism) so he can treat the symptoms (violence) with painkillers (“law and order”) that are intended to mask the problem but only end up making it worse. Then, when the patient dies, the doctor says it’s because the patient didn’t take enough painkillers.
Read MoreDonald Trump is a spoiled billionaire who uses others to get what he wants, regardless of their skin color. That’s what he means by “winning”: getting his way. Not helping his constituents win. Not improving the nation. Not helping the Republican Party. Simply getting what HE wants — even at everyone else’s expense. ESPECIALLY then, because if he’s the only one left standing, there’s no one left to challenge him. He’ll destroy everyone else to secure complete and total control.
Read MoreIt’s very possible to be proud about living in the South without waving a Confederate flag. I know. I live in the South, and I like it here. And it’s just as possible to be proud about one’s Italian heritage without putting up a statue to Christopher Columbus. Are we really so narrowly focused as to believe that the only way we can honor our heritage is to erect statues to slaveholders?
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