Perry Redd

I wrote a song a few years back that I never really warmed up to, until I recorded it. It was written while I sat behind the walls of a federal prison. It was fueled by the reality of, not only the place where I was sitting in American society in July of “07, but…

I have to ask myself, like any other American, do I feel American? One thing I know is that if I voice that I don’t, I may get attacked by the Right as not being so. So I better be careful of what I say…naw, I don’t think so! I don’t feel American; and there’s…

This commentary will do one of two things: it will either open robust and earnest dialogue on matters of great import to Americans or it will draw the ire of self-important people who discount the experiences of others. Of course, I hope for the former, but expect the latter. I’m pretty much sick of the…

Note: BC welcomes Perry Redd as a columnist. “The Other Side of the Tracks” will appear on a regular basis. Another appointment, another disappointment is how I describe the progression of the Obama administration. There were grand hopes, as well as fears, when it came to speculation on how President Barack Obama would conduct his…

Are we there yet? Have we rebounded from the downed economy of two years ago? Our dear President tells us that we’ve made leaps and bounds from where we were. We gained 100,000 new jobs last month, we had the foreclosure rate go down – down 26% from the year before. Driven by investigations by…

prisons cannot serve as holding cells for the mentally unstable; most mentally challenged people aren’t charged with a crime until they commit one Of all of the dialogue surrounding the Arizona attack, very little was focused on remedying the cause. The politi-sphere won’t admit that it allowed hateful and harmful language to contaminate the hate…