Renee NICOLE Good. That's significant. Names have meaning and power. Renee = reborn, renewed. NICOLE = victory of the people -- look it up. Good = self-explanatory. Renee Nicole Good. It really makes one wonder what other forces are at play here -- how can this be a coincidence? Who is the showrunner behind this surreality TV series, in which the forces of Good must battle a force called Trump? Fun fact: Vance means "marsh dweller." Another word for marsh is swamp. I kid you not.
Not to take away from the astounding significance of what you just showed us, today has been a day, for me on a personal level, that is so filled with crazy, cosmic, stunning, and almost unbelievable coincidence and contradiction that I feel anything, and I mean anything, is possible. It started with a conversation with my client this am. and it has been off the rails ever since. Not easy stuff, very difficult and challenging stuff. So folks, take a long note of today, and what follows hence. Just sayin.'
Superbly written, as always, Steve. I was born in Illinois and became a diehard Cub fan and dreamed of selling hot dogs at Wrigley Field as a kid. I won’t return to Wrigley while my beloved team is owned by the Trump supporting Ricketts family.
As a kid I used to listen, surreptitiously due to my mother objecting to me hearing news from 'the big city,' to WLS and all the news and sports of the Windy City. JR was an amazing hero to me, as Ali was later. Now oligarchy has subsumed sports, education, entertainment, food, transportation and medicine. Now LE is nothing more than para-military mercenaries, who love to hate, and love to kill or maim. History has always repeated itself, which another way to say nothing in human behavior has changed since we left the bonobo clan.
I have to admit that I am fearful. My husband was a Federal Employee for 34 years and all of our retirement income comes from the Federal treasury. I am still donating to Democratic candidates and organizations that are fighting what is happening right now in our country and I am avoiding doing business with companies that support trump, but the thought that our entire income could be stopped because of our social media posts makes me afraid to be too vocal. I hate to think that I am cowardly, but the fact that my husband who is 80 and myself, at 76, depend on that income makes me hesitate to speak out more. I appreciate your posts, Steve. You are truly brave to take on the roll that you are playing to save our democracy. Thank you again.
Update: I am getting bolder with my social media posts after the shooting of Renee Good. How can I stay silent when she gave her life? If we lose our income, somehow we will survive. I’m convinced that we must all speak out!
In an America where I feel less safe than ever, as an aging black woman, it’s stories like these, men like you, who make me feel safe, seen and able to hold my head up. To say “Renee Nicole” is as much an honor as saying my own son’s name, “Travis.” He went to Heaven 33 years ago in July. How can a mother forget? ❤️
I am likely one of the few subscribers to Steve's Substack who had met Jackie Robinson personally, outside of a baseball situation. In fact, I met him twice. Once was in 1954 when I was the chair of "Discussion Group" at the Walden School in New York City and invited Jackie to come to talk with us about the community work he did every winter in the City. The first question was about the substance of his talk. The second was --- and I can still see the setting as I write this --- was "will the Dodgers win the pennant?" We were off to the races. (Actually that was the year of the "Bobby Thompson homer," with which my beloved New York Giants beat the Dodgers for the Nationla League Pennant. But that's naohter story.) The second time was when I was in intern at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, working the Emergency Room on the occasion when Jackie was going on a foreign trip and came in to get the required smallpox vaccination. Jackie was a great ballplayer, the perfect pick by the Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager, Branch Rickey, to break the color barrier. He was also an elegant, gracious gentleman, who died (of diabetes) much too young.
Renee Good mattered, and her death is a brutal reminder of how quickly a country can slide into sanctioned cruelty. Thank you for insisting we say her name and refuse the lie that courage equals “terrorism.” I am holding her children in my heart, and recommitting to the hard discipline Jackie Robinson embodied: keep going, keep hope alive, and do not let hate make us smaller.
Thank you for this inspirational reminder about freedom and what it costs. Your use of the worlds of Jackie Robinson, Jesse Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln in this article to memorialize the senseless murder of Renee Nicole Good, and to stir us to action was powerful. Thank you.
Honor Rene Nicole Good by your actions. Join the growing protests if you have the opportunity. Boycott the corporate media and businesses that have bent a knee to this madman. Write your congressional representatives and demand they act. My recommendation to my delegation is to impeach Trump, remove all his minions, and rescind funding for ICE. If only a few republicans in each chamber choose to caucus with the democrats, they can bring this reign of error and terror to an immediate halt.
I was there; Aptil 15th 1947,in a broken down old ball Park in Brooklyn. Even as a 9 year old, I knew that I witnessing something historic! He was the greatest clutch player to ever wear a major league uniform. He was one of the greatest Americans of the 20th century!
A powerful message when such thoughts are no longer being heard by our leaders. Their disdain of humanity is all that is left. It whithers our souls and hardens our arteries. We must fight back against the cancer which is consuming our nation. Do not go silent into the good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light of freedom and democracy.
Mr Robinson was called up to the major leagues from the Montreal Royals, where he could display his talent and the quality of his character safely. Jesse Jackson eulogized him beautifully.
The regime protects ICE goons while spinning lies about Renee Nicole Good's character. The real domestic terrorist here, aside from Trump and the rest, is Kristi Noem.
Thank you, Steve. We need to hear this over and over. God bless you. "Succumbing to hate in defense of liberty will kill freedom in America. No American in the Trump era has earned the right to repudiate the teachings of Dr. King, the indomitability of John Lewis and the sublime grace of Jackie Robinson because they detest Trump."
Renee NICOLE Good. That's significant. Names have meaning and power. Renee = reborn, renewed. NICOLE = victory of the people -- look it up. Good = self-explanatory. Renee Nicole Good. It really makes one wonder what other forces are at play here -- how can this be a coincidence? Who is the showrunner behind this surreality TV series, in which the forces of Good must battle a force called Trump? Fun fact: Vance means "marsh dweller." Another word for marsh is swamp. I kid you not.
Not to take away from the astounding significance of what you just showed us, today has been a day, for me on a personal level, that is so filled with crazy, cosmic, stunning, and almost unbelievable coincidence and contradiction that I feel anything, and I mean anything, is possible. It started with a conversation with my client this am. and it has been off the rails ever since. Not easy stuff, very difficult and challenging stuff. So folks, take a long note of today, and what follows hence. Just sayin.'
Thanks for taking time to write a note. I'm glad the names made an impact. The synchronicity you experienced today sounds amazing.
Superbly written, as always, Steve. I was born in Illinois and became a diehard Cub fan and dreamed of selling hot dogs at Wrigley Field as a kid. I won’t return to Wrigley while my beloved team is owned by the Trump supporting Ricketts family.
As a kid I used to listen, surreptitiously due to my mother objecting to me hearing news from 'the big city,' to WLS and all the news and sports of the Windy City. JR was an amazing hero to me, as Ali was later. Now oligarchy has subsumed sports, education, entertainment, food, transportation and medicine. Now LE is nothing more than para-military mercenaries, who love to hate, and love to kill or maim. History has always repeated itself, which another way to say nothing in human behavior has changed since we left the bonobo clan.
I have to admit that I am fearful. My husband was a Federal Employee for 34 years and all of our retirement income comes from the Federal treasury. I am still donating to Democratic candidates and organizations that are fighting what is happening right now in our country and I am avoiding doing business with companies that support trump, but the thought that our entire income could be stopped because of our social media posts makes me afraid to be too vocal. I hate to think that I am cowardly, but the fact that my husband who is 80 and myself, at 76, depend on that income makes me hesitate to speak out more. I appreciate your posts, Steve. You are truly brave to take on the roll that you are playing to save our democracy. Thank you again.
Update: I am getting bolder with my social media posts after the shooting of Renee Good. How can I stay silent when she gave her life? If we lose our income, somehow we will survive. I’m convinced that we must all speak out!
In an America where I feel less safe than ever, as an aging black woman, it’s stories like these, men like you, who make me feel safe, seen and able to hold my head up. To say “Renee Nicole” is as much an honor as saying my own son’s name, “Travis.” He went to Heaven 33 years ago in July. How can a mother forget? ❤️
I am likely one of the few subscribers to Steve's Substack who had met Jackie Robinson personally, outside of a baseball situation. In fact, I met him twice. Once was in 1954 when I was the chair of "Discussion Group" at the Walden School in New York City and invited Jackie to come to talk with us about the community work he did every winter in the City. The first question was about the substance of his talk. The second was --- and I can still see the setting as I write this --- was "will the Dodgers win the pennant?" We were off to the races. (Actually that was the year of the "Bobby Thompson homer," with which my beloved New York Giants beat the Dodgers for the Nationla League Pennant. But that's naohter story.) The second time was when I was in intern at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, working the Emergency Room on the occasion when Jackie was going on a foreign trip and came in to get the required smallpox vaccination. Jackie was a great ballplayer, the perfect pick by the Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager, Branch Rickey, to break the color barrier. He was also an elegant, gracious gentleman, who died (of diabetes) much too young.
Steve-
Renee Good mattered, and her death is a brutal reminder of how quickly a country can slide into sanctioned cruelty. Thank you for insisting we say her name and refuse the lie that courage equals “terrorism.” I am holding her children in my heart, and recommitting to the hard discipline Jackie Robinson embodied: keep going, keep hope alive, and do not let hate make us smaller.
Mika-
Thanks for this uplifting post Steve.
With respect.
Mark
Steve,
Thank you for this inspirational reminder about freedom and what it costs. Your use of the worlds of Jackie Robinson, Jesse Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln in this article to memorialize the senseless murder of Renee Nicole Good, and to stir us to action was powerful. Thank you.
All the best and as always, watch your six.
Steve Dundas
"...Except for the IMPACT it has on other lives."
It helps to get the quote right.
Corrected. Thank you, Sandra.
Steve
I was just writing the same; thanks.
Renee Good, American patriot and hero.🙏🇺🇸
Honor Rene Nicole Good by your actions. Join the growing protests if you have the opportunity. Boycott the corporate media and businesses that have bent a knee to this madman. Write your congressional representatives and demand they act. My recommendation to my delegation is to impeach Trump, remove all his minions, and rescind funding for ICE. If only a few republicans in each chamber choose to caucus with the democrats, they can bring this reign of error and terror to an immediate halt.
I was there; Aptil 15th 1947,in a broken down old ball Park in Brooklyn. Even as a 9 year old, I knew that I witnessing something historic! He was the greatest clutch player to ever wear a major league uniform. He was one of the greatest Americans of the 20th century!
A beautiful piece thank you Steve. It allowed me to cry and cry and hope .
A powerful message when such thoughts are no longer being heard by our leaders. Their disdain of humanity is all that is left. It whithers our souls and hardens our arteries. We must fight back against the cancer which is consuming our nation. Do not go silent into the good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light of freedom and democracy.
Mr Robinson was called up to the major leagues from the Montreal Royals, where he could display his talent and the quality of his character safely. Jesse Jackson eulogized him beautifully.
The regime protects ICE goons while spinning lies about Renee Nicole Good's character. The real domestic terrorist here, aside from Trump and the rest, is Kristi Noem.
Thank you, Steve. We need to hear this over and over. God bless you. "Succumbing to hate in defense of liberty will kill freedom in America. No American in the Trump era has earned the right to repudiate the teachings of Dr. King, the indomitability of John Lewis and the sublime grace of Jackie Robinson because they detest Trump."