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Voting, donating and black preachers political influence
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - BY WILLIS WEBB
Every place I’ve lived in rural and small town Texas has been awash in a practice wherein the African American vote has been influenced — for better or for worse as wedding vows provide — by a church minister. Sometimes a minister’s influence beyond normal congregational practices extends to the African American ...
More →Mothers Day Particularly Poignant This Year
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Mothers have been universally revered within my knowledge and recollection of trends and events in my lifetime. I think that probably holds true worldwide, but is most certainly a prevalent belief with Americans. It is a particularly emotional and moving observance each year for me personally. I was the first-born child of Ruth Evelyn Thornton Webb...
More →Sexual preference no requirement in job preparedness
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
As I’ve said before, “Sexual preference should have nothing to do with measuring a person’s ability to perform a job in the workplace.” And, yes, this has to do with the mayor’s race in the City of Jasper. These are beliefs I try to apply no matter where circumstances raise the question. While I obviously no longer live in Jasper and some might ..
More →Snipe really do exist -- hunted with guns, not bags
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - BY WILLIS WEBB
Honestly now, how many of us as youngsters have been bamboozled by “evil” teenaged boys into night snipe hunting with a burlap bag (known as a “tow-sack” in my growing-up years)? Well, you can remain embarrassed and silent, but I’ll readily ‘fess up all these years later to being duped into that midnight adventure when I was11 or 12. Tweren’t ...
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