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Louis William Rose
Category Archives: Race and Gender
All Lives Matter, If You Don’t Think So, Maybe Yours Doesn’t Matter So Much
Life is cheap. That’s the truth. Hundreds of thousands die every day, some violently, some ignominiously, some of old age or sickness, some in infancy or the prime of life. All tragically. Today you are alive, and your life matters, … Continue reading
LGBT Rights and the First Amendment
From Muhammad Ibn Abdullah to Joel Osteen the world seems awash with false prophets. This is why it is so important to be able to say whatever we want, to believe whatever we want about God, or not to believe, to publish whatever we want to publish, to associate with those whom we wish, and to shun those with whom we do not. Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Freedom of Speech, Gay Lesbian, Liberty, Natural Law, Political Theory, Politics, Race and Gender, Social Philosophy
Tagged anti-discrimination, Bill of Rights, Christ, Christianity, First Amendment, Florida, gay, God, Jacksonville, lesbian, LGBT, Liberty, Louis William Rose, United States Constitution
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On Racism and Eclecticism
Race relations is a favorite subject of mine, because it is the only significant political debate that can be conclusively proven to be based on a fallacy. The fallacy is that there is such a thing as race in the … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Race and Gender
Tagged Adam Clayton Powell, Andrew Young, Arthur Ashe, Bill Cosby, Black Man, Cab Calloway, Chubby Checker, Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Count Basie, Dick Gregory, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Domino, Fats Waller, Genetics, George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson, James Brown, James Earl Jones, Jimi Hendrix, John Shaft, Johnny Mathis, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Nat King Cole, Paul Robeson, Pearl Bailey, Quincy Jones, Race Relations, Racism, Ralph Abernathy, Ray Charles, Red Fox, Roy Innis, Shirley Chisolm, Stevie Wonder, Sydney Poitier, Thurgood Marshall, White Man
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Why does a gentleman stop and allow a lady to pass before him?
As a human, we are all born of women. I had a mother (despite persistent rumors to the contrary) and have an obligation of reverence and gratitude to her. This obligation applies to all women, for I would have all … Continue reading
Poem: You’re Not the Same Color as Me
You’re not the same color as me. Is that supposed to matter? Because it’s so easy to see, I’m also bald, and fatter than you and I know it’s a fact, they beat and killed the others. But does that … Continue reading
Posted in About People, Poetry, Race and Gender, Social Philosophy
Tagged Black, Brotherhood, Louis William Rose, Poem, Race, Race Relations, Racism, White
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A Neo-Patriarchal Response to Communitarianism
Very occasionally, in the morning when the weather is not too hot, I step out onto my front porch and sit on a broad wooden bench, looking out into my front yard and that of my neighbor’s, enjoying the coolness … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Papers, Feminist Philsophy, Political Theory, Politics, Race and Gender, Social Philosophy
Tagged Alan Keyes, Athens, Benjamin Franklin, Betty Friedan, Clifford Geertz, Communitarianism, Dave Hodges, Engels, God, Louis William Rose, Max Weber, Patriarchy, Poem, Sex, Sonnet, Thomas Jefferson, To Those Who Rush to Praise Us, United States, United States Constitution, warrior citizen
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The Rules
I must begin by telling you that I cannot take credit for “The Rules”. No, a wiser man than I wrote them down, or perhaps it was a group of men, each one wiser and older than the next, meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Humor, Race and Gender
Tagged battle of the sexes, Louis William Rose, Men and Women, relationships, The Rules
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The Five Magic Phrases for a Happy Marriage
Hear me my fellow men, especially young men at the gate of marriage. Over twenty years ago, I met a tyler by the name of Jack Glick during a tour of the oldest Masonic lodge in the state of California. … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Race and Gender
Tagged Happy Marriage, Louis William Rose, marriage, Men and Women, relationships
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A Response to UNF President John Delaney’s Endorsement of the Jacksonville City Council Bill 2012-296
Originally Published in the Jacksonville Times Union A Response to UNF President John Delaney’s Endorsement of the Jacksonville City Council Bill 2012-296 banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Invocation Did they have an invocation at the Sodom City Council? Did … Continue reading
Racism, Politics, and Ax Handle Saturday
I am not exactly sure why we should be celebrating a day when a bunch of black folk got beat up by a bunch of white folk with ax handles. I think it is unlikely to happen again given Republican … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Race and Gender
Tagged Ax Handle Saturday, Florida, Jacksonville, Louis William Rose, race baiting
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President Obama
Originally published in the Florida Student Philosophy Blog God bless the new President of the United States! Now let us do all we can do to help him uphold his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United … Continue reading
Against Gay Marriage
Originally published in the Florida Student Philosophy Blog In the article “Gay Marriage” in Philosophy and Sex[1] Frederick Elliston, dissects several arguments against gay marriage. I would like to revisit a few of them in this essay, and will begin … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Ethics, Race and Gender, Social Philosophy
Tagged civil partnership, defense of marriage act, DOMA, gay, gay marriage, homosexual, lesbian, Louis William Rose, marriage
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Poem: The Afrocentric Pejorative
Now everybody knows there is a word you cannot say. It is much worse than other words that fill us with dismay. Greater by far than Kike, or Wop, or Dot-Head, or Ofay. Grave consequences loom for those who put … Continue reading
Posted in About Life, Freedom of Speech, Poetry, Race and Gender
Tagged Africa, African people, Afrocentrism, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, hate speech, Lenny Bruce, Louis William Rose, Mel Gibson, N-Word, Nigger, Paula Deen, Poem, political correctness, Prejudice, Racial Slur, Racism
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Gender Wars
“Although the official ideology and the government support liberty and equality, men and women do not share an equal status in the United States.” In order to respond to the statement that “although the official ideology and the government support … Continue reading
Poem: Martha Mitchell
Martha Mitchell, brassy, big haired, woman of the South Arkansas simple sweet and twangy A voice of her own that she loved to hear And John Mitchell for a husband Trouble. Trouble for the GOP Nixon knew her kind and … Continue reading
Posted in About People, Poetry, Political Theory, Race and Gender
Tagged GOP, John Mitchell, Louis William Rose, Martha, Martha Beall Mitchell, Martha Mitchell, Martha Stewart, Nixon Administration, party faithful, Poem, politician's wives, Republican Women, Richard Nixon, South Arkansas, Watergate scandal, Whistleblower, Women in Politics
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Fire in the Flint
Walter White’s novel, Fire in the Flint was originally published in 1924. While White hoped “that sales of the book would show white publishers that colored people would buy books if publishers dared to bring out those which tell the … Continue reading
In a cruel and uncaring world... 