Julian Castro, Secretary of HUD in the Obama administration and a former mayor of San Antonio, Texas,
…vowed to introduce universal pre-kindergarten for American children by expanding a program he introduced as mayor of San Antonio. He also promised to bring the US back into the Paris climate change agreement with his first executive order and pledged comprehensive immigration and criminal justice reform. He named a number of unarmed black men and women killed by police in recent years, in impassioned support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Castro spent little time criticizing the Republican currently in the White House, but with reference to his recent visit to the border in south Texas, where he decried a “crisis”, Castro said: “Well, there is a crisis today – it’s a crisis of leadership. Donald Trump has failed to uphold the values of our great nation.”
I have a Ph.D. in Existential Phenomenology from the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley, a primary founder of our philosophy program. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering like a. mountain dog through the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the critical intersection of of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with queer theory, and the challenge of finding freedom under the Current Empire.
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