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. [...]
BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does [...]
Editor’s Note: The following post was written by Hip Hop scholar, activist, and journalist Davey D. It was was originally posted at Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner, and it’s an honor to have it posted with permission here at TIOMAR. Michelle Obama gave a speech over the weekend at Bowie State saying that too many Black kids [...]
The Genarlow Wilson case is burning up the internet again… This case gained notoriety when it hit the headlines back around 2007. The case and subsequent conviction of Genarlow Wilson was based on a flawed statue that made it a felony for a minor to engage in oral sex with another minor – while if [...]
President Barack Obama gave a historic commencement speech at Morehouse College today. If you know anything about anything, you’d know that Obama is America’s first black president; and, that Morehouse College is an all-male, historic black college founded just two years after the American Civil War. As an institute of higher learning that caters to [...]
This past weekend, President Barack Obama delivered the keynote speech at the commencement ceremony at Ohio State University. In his address, Obama urged the graduating class to take an active role in guiding the future of democracy in the United States; and, to fight for the issues that the they care about. A very good [...]
So apparently ethnic studies classes serve no other purpose other than promoting racial resentment. Yep, who knew? I remember taking one of those classes back in college, but I never realized that my doing so was responsible for my occasional “kill whitey” outbursts in public. Here I thought that much of my rage had something [...]
Editor’s Note: The following is an open letter to Dr. Lester Lefton, President of Kent State University on the importance of diversity in Ohio and the United States. It was originally published at culturelovefamily.com. I am writing to you as Founder and President Emeritus of the Kent State University college chapter of the National Association [...]
Through out my short 33 years on this earth, I’ve heard the ”I gotta do what I gotta do” excuse from men countless times. Normally the person saying this has found themselves in a desperate situation, with their back against the wall and usually ends up doing something they normally wouldn’t do to get out of the situation they are [...]
We’re not even one month into the new year, and Deadspin has produced what is arguably the biggest story in college sports this tear thus far. The story involves Notre Dame’s Heisman Trophy All-American linebacker, Manti Te’o in what’s being described by many as a very bizarre story. The story has all the trappings of [...]
I like Dr. Boyce Watkins — yes, I really do. It is for that reason only that he isn’t this week’s recipient of my Slave-Catcher of the Week award. Not that what he said in a piece over at Kulture Kritic isn’t slave catcher behavior. But after thinking long and hard, truth is, the last [...]
Oh look: A 40-year-old innocent black man is shot and killed in Florida and “stand your ground” cleared the 16-year-old shooter! How could that be? Surely it has nothing to do with the fact that he attempted to run the kids over while they were walking down the street. Oh no, him having an ongoing [...]
Internet flaming—or trolling—has been a … thing for as long as the World Wide Web has been in existence. In fact trolls and the internet go together like Chipotle and explosive diarrhea. And lest you’re a person susceptible to bubble guts, sometimes it’s best not to feed that kind of hunger. As technology and social [...]
According to a new Quinnipiac University poll, 53 percent of Americans favor stand-your-ground self-defense laws. I don’t want to go into detail about the law just yet — we’ll get there further down in this post. Besides, I’ve written about it here, here, and here before today (yes, I have said a lot). In the [...]
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg recently defended the NYPD’s racist stop-and-frisk policy. Making the case for the justification for the violation of the civil rights and constitutional rights of black and brown folks, Bloomberg said that the cops are stopping too many white New Yorkers. I don’t want to go back into all the [...]
Chances are you’ve never heard of Christopher Rose. Don’t feel bad if you don’t. After all, he wasn’t wearing a hoodie or carrying ice tea and Skittles when he was killed. Nope, there were no marches or protests in the interest of justice for Christopher. But then again, he died so long ago back in [...]
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