Articles by Walter Fields
Kaepernick's Patriotism
Walter Fields · We live compromised lives; knowing we get hired less, paid less, and promoted less, and will likely die earlier from illness or violence. We are very much living the 3/5th lives that was intended for us when the framers compromised our...
A Legacy Lost
Walter Fields · The irony is that in the greatest period (1963-1965) of national recognition of Black grievances since Reconstruction there was no Congressional Black Caucus and not a single Black mayor of a major American city.
It's The Damn Police
Walter Fields · From an early age Blacks are socialized to live defensively and to absorb the mental body blows that come from the day-to-day indignities that are hoisted upon us by the very people who are hired to uphold ‘the law’ but instead engage...
Rescind the Baltimore police contract
Walter Fields · Black residents of Baltimore should not be required to honor a contract that has not been fulfilled and be doubly-taxed by the mental stress incurred from the fear of those in uniform who are terrorizing their neighborhoods.