In today’s cult of personality and with the way technology and information has evolved, public dramas play out across social media platforms as quickly and as messily as anything viewed on reality TV, and this week most of us learned that the tech world is no exception when it comes to rules of engaging in [...]
Okay, so this is going to be funny. No seriously, whenever I come across instances of hypocrisy in the news, to me, it’s hilarious. And, well, the following two stories are just that. Now bear with me on this post because it isn’t my intent to make you bust a gut from fits of laughter. [...]
Some time ago I joked about me not being able to wait for Django Unchained winning the Best Picture category at this year’s Oscar Awards, to finally be able to celebrate our post-racialness. Well, at last night’s Oscar ceremony, that didn’t happen. Ironically, the film did in fact win two awards. However, as the Hollywood’s [...]
Unless you’re the Prince of Brunei or Beyonce, and have the luxury of boasting about not having passengers on your private plane, most of us regular folks have had to experience the pains of flying commercial. The annoyances range from having to contend with flights cancelled at the last minute; cringing while a TSA officer orders you [...]
This past Wednesday night, I was invited to weigh-in on Madness & Reality Radio’s hot-button topic: ‘The Voyeuristic Fetish of Angry Black Women’ in hopes of contributing to a nuanced conversation about the ‘Angry Black Woman’ trope; but alas, as most conversations about Black women do, the discourse veered off course. Additionally, due to technical [...]
The latest viral video of a black mother being tasered by a store owner slash “Top Flight” security officer is the most recent incident of a disturbing celebration by online communities that cheer conflicts where black women have been on the other side of a black man’s fist. Though the action of these women were [...]
I’m sure that everyone has seen the most recent video of the security guard using a taser against a woman at an Atlanta mall. If you haven’t, you’re in luck because in addition to it being found all over the internet, it can also be found below. The video is, however, graphic and before it [...]
Yes, you read that right: A man used the Bible to threaten a woman with rape at a Gay Pride Parade in Michigan. I realize I haven’t said anything about the Chick-Fil-A anti-gay marriage turned pro-gay marriage controversy in recent weeks. And to be honest, I’m not going to say anything about it; frankly, I [...]
For the life of me I don’t know why I subscribed to the RSS stream of my home town’s local paper. Maybe it was some displaced feeling of nostalgia that caused me to think the small publication, that has since been reduced in distribution and content, could still be beneficial l for me to intellectually consume. [...]
Just a hair over a year ago, a 23-year-old Black transgender woman in Minnesota named CeCe McDonald was walking to store with four friends of her’s, also Black, late in the evening. CeCe and her friends walked past a bar, and there were three white people (one man, two women) on the patio. When the [...]
Looking through the current media available to the African American/Urban audience one could easily come to the conclusion that all Black women are heterosexual, church going, and desperate for marriage. On a recent article I addressed the impact of gender orientation, sexual identity and how it affected a person’s decision of whom they will and will [...]
When conjuring up an image of what the quintessential companion of a wealthy Sugar Daddy looks like, as dictated by popular culture, perhaps visions of a young, thin but buxom blond woman dances in your head. Or maybe an ‘exotic’, racially ambiguous variation, whose aesthetic still passes muster when it comes to rigid beauty standards. [...]
Looks like “racial entitlement” won big today… So the Supreme Court didn’t announce any rulings related to “the gays” or “blah people” today. While many of us on the left side of the political side of things anxiously await rulings on DOMA, Prop 8, Affirmative Action as well as the Voting Rights Act. U suppose [...]
I can think of many reasons to support immigration reform. But of all the reasons to sup[port immigration reform, I never knew that the fertility of immigrants would be one of them. Being an immigrant myself, you would think that I would have been wise to this obvious advantage. But it just goes to show [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard about Judge Edith Jones, a former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. If you haven’t, you may want to sit down and take your nerve pills pronto. Judge Jones is in the media spotlight for having racist attitudes regarding blacks, Latinos and Mexican Nationals. She [...]
Hello young brotha. I hope this letter finds you in good spirits. I hope you are doing well, and I hope life is treating you well. I wrote this letter as a response to your latest song entitled “I Hit It First”. First off, you really have a good voice. You definitely have talent. However, [...]
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