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Delthea Simmons

Delthea Simmons

The Job’s the Thing

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

2 min readOct 17, 2021

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Delthea Simmons

If Food Stamps Tire You, What Would Freedom Do?

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

2 min readJan 14, 2021

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Delthea Simmons

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…

3 min readDec 16, 2020

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Delthea Simmons

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

3 min readJul 1, 2020

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Delthea Simmons

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.

7 min readJun 14, 2020

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Delthea Simmons

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…

2 min readJun 11, 2020

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Delthea Simmons

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…

3 min readJun 3, 2020

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Delthea Simmons

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

A few thoughts

2 min readMay 27, 2020

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Delthea Simmons

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.

2 min readApr 6, 2020

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

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Delthea Simmons

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.

2 min readMar 15, 2020

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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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