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Delthea Simmons

The Job’s the Thing

"Lord, I am just blessed to have a job."

Oct 17, 2021

Oct 17, 2021

If Food Stamps Tire You, What Would Freedom Do?

One of my mom’s pet peeves was food stamps going for junk food.

Jan 14, 2021

Jan 14, 2021

A Woman’s Work

I belong to a couple of the crochet groups on Facebook. The people there are nice and almost exclusively women. We talk about projects…

Dec 16, 2020

Dec 16, 2020

WHEN THE POLICE ARE BLACK BUT THE POLICING ISN’T

My father was a police officer. When I was little, one of our neighbors asked him was he a black man or a black cop? My father said

Jul 1, 2020

Jul 1, 2020

THE HELP REVISITED

With the offering this month of The Help on Netflix, I thought I’d share a review I wrote at the time.

Jun 14, 2020

Jun 14, 2020

America and Its Reckoning with Itself

From time to time when I was growing up, my grandmother would tell me to go in my room, or go out on the screened porch or out in the…

Jun 11, 2020

Jun 11, 2020

THE MARVELOUS AND THE MUNDANE: Police, Protest, and Life in the Grand Gesture.

I have known, not necessarily in the biblical sense so mind your business, a fair number of men in my life. And like most of you, I have…

Jun 3, 2020

Jun 3, 2020

A Black Woman Pissed Off (or Having a Bad White People Day Everyday)

A few thoughts

May 27, 2020

May 27, 2020

THE VIRTUOUS POOR, THE HEROIC WORKER The Idolization of the Lowly

This is a picture called The Thankful Poor by African American artist Henry Tanner.

Apr 6, 2020

THE VIRTUOUS POOR, THE HEROIC WORKER The Idolization of the Lowly

Apr 6, 2020

This Is Not Moment But a Movement

I have heard it said that Goldwater lost the 1964 election, but he won in 1980. The same may be true of Bernie Sanders.

Mar 15, 2020

Mar 15, 2020

Delthea Simmons

Delthea Simmons

If you like my work, support it at Patreon.com. I am an anarcho-socialist, a member of the New Poor, an Occupier, a free-lance speaker, writer and performer.

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