I know I am not the only gay man who finds the thought of using a new, unfamiliar hair-stylist frightening. After all, the way someone “whips your buttah” can make or break your look. But this is not a style editorial. Though, that fear was certainly the sentiment I experienced when I was forced to [...]
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord; hot damn, here we go again! Just when you thought this fool was gonna fade to black, in comes another allegation of for ya boy Herman Cain. I gotta admit, with Newt Gingrich being the front runner and getting all the attention, this shit has been boring. So yeah, [...]
I really wish the education of inner city kids, or American workers weren’t too big to fail, unlike the banks that make up our financial industry. While the budget deficit and subsequent budget cuts continue in wake of the recent super-committee failure, said industry continues to prosper. In a newly released report by Bloomberg News, we now know [...]
The War on Children: Sex Education in America I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. –Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), on the [...]
I didn’t catch this weeks GOP presidential debate, but I was pleasantly pleased to see immigration being the centerpiece of discussion in the days following. Thanks to Newt Gingrich’s expressed position, the conversation of what to do with undocumented immigrants has picked up again. It’s an ongoing debate, but for the record, allow me to [...]
Yes, that’s a question I’ve always wanted to ask. Being a kid from the Caribbean where there’s no Thanksgiving holiday, or traditions, I’ve always wanted to know whether white folks were known to partake of chitlins for Thanksgiving, or whether that was just a black thing? I’ve been in many homes across the country over [...]
As if we didn’t see it coming, the Super Committee has failed to reach an agreement. Government legislative dysfunction aside, faced with the humongous task of cutting $1.2 trillion off the deficit over the next ten years without a cape, did we really expect them to pull it off? No, in all seriousness, like most of you, I never [...]
Can you imagine 10, 000 years from now humankind reading a book written by George W. Bush (or one of his neo-con disciples), which uses the historical backdrop of the USA, and it being widely accepted as being divinely inspired? Can you imagine? Didn’t he say God told him to invade Iraq, but yet he lied about [...]
Feminism and Pornography Since the 1980s feminism has grown conflicted about the importance of pornography as an issue, about strategies and tactics to deal with the issue and even about the meaning of pornographies — or pornographies, for there are many different forms. My belief is that this conflict is important. I am also concerned [...]
Don’t congratulate me on that nifty headline either, those words aren’t mine, rather they belong to Herman Cain where he was quoted at a recent appearance at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) convention “Defending the American Dream only days ago. Now if that ain’t some coon shit! You’re probably wondering how did the well spoken corporate [...]
Lemme just go ahead and say it: given the current field of GOP presidential candidates, it’s quite obvious that a premium is being placed on the idiot vote. I’m not sure whether the idiot vote represents itself as a sizable voting block. However, such facts aside, it’s quite clear that “certain people” in America are not happy with the [...]
Last week after Pres. Obama’s made his “evolution” on gay marriage public, my initial thought was: great, now they’re going to say that Obama is gay, and all gay people are now going to vote for him because of it. You know, pretty much in the same way all black people voted for him in [...]
Apparently, in the state of Tennessee it’s perfectly legal to commit what’s known as highway robbery. However, if you expect such acts to the the undertaking of the obvious shady criminal element riding a horse and dressed in black as were the bad guys of the wild west, you’re sorely mistaken. Unlike the days of [...]
There is not a person in this country who does not know that the police engages in racial profiling. If a Black person says they are not aware of this practice, they are either not yet beyond the toddler stage of life, or being intentionally deceptive in hopes of receiving special considerations from the white [...]
As if Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio wasn’t bad enough, in steps Shaun Winkler, a white supremacist running for sheriff. As a Republican, Winkler hopes to become Bonner County, Idaho’s next sheriff. As anybody running for office will tell you, media attention is something welcomed and often sought by candidates. That said, not one [...]
I think that one of my proudest moments in life happened at the beginning of this year: my younger brother – a heterosexual Black adult male – joined me in the fight against Amendment One by taking a photo with me, donning “Vote Against” t-shirts. For about a year, I’ve worked tirelessly against the passing [...]
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