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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.

An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.

For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.

He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.

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On Life

Ruminations and provocations.

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The difference between white supremacy and BLM in two words

Stephen H. Provost

White supremacy denotes superiority. Domination. BLM just asserts that Black lives matter. … When one side wants to dominate the other, and the other side just wants to acknowledge the right to have a life (not even bothering to mention liberty and the pursuit of happiness), there’s no equivalency there — false or otherwise.

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Republicans do this one thing far better than Democrats

Stephen H. Provost

Trump had built his name into one of the nation’s most recognizable brands, and he knew how to market the hell out of even lousy products. He’d learned a lot from televangelists and snake oil salesmen. Democrats, by contrast, don’t seem to have learned much at all. Whether they’re attempting to brand themselves or demonize their opponents, it never seems to turn out too well.

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It's easy to ignore injustice when it's happening to someone else

Stephen H. Provost

In three short months, some white Americans have grown so impatient to “get back to their normal lives” that they’re willing to sweep the image of a man being brutally suffocated under the rug. How long, it must be asked, have Black Americans been waiting to get back to a normal life?

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To Trump, some people don't even exist

Stephen H. Provost

Trump is like a quack doctor who ignores the cause of a disease (racism) so he can treat the symptoms (violence) with painkillers (“law and order”) that are intended to mask the problem but only end up making it worse. Then, when the patient dies, the doctor says it’s because the patient didn’t take enough painkillers.

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I thought we were putting racism behind us. I was wrong.

Stephen H. Provost

Are we really so stupid that we can’t learn from our mistakes? Are we really that unfeeling that we can keep defying our own core principles in order to kill and degrade and oppress people who don’t look like us? There was a time that I felt the answer to both those questions was a resounding “no,” and because of that, I ignored the signs to the contrary. I won’t ignore them anymore.

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Why Trump may quit — and become GOP's worst nightmare

Stephen H. Provost

The escape hatch for Trump is there, and it’s one he’s taking before in private business. He thrives on winning, and if it becomes clear he can’t (win, that is), he’s likely to quit in a huff. But don’t expect him to go away, and don’t expect him to take any of the blame. Sure, he’ll lash out at Democrats, but he’ll also blame Republicans who, he’ll say, have turned on him.

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