OK, let’s face it: the only reason anyone is talking about Trayvon Martin is because he’s dead, and George Zimmerman hasn’t been arrested. Yes, if Zimmerman never followed Martin, pending on what the police did once they showed up after his 911 call, Trayvon may still be alive today. Yes, there would be no million hoodie marches, [...]
The murder — and I’ve seen no evidence to classify it otherwise — of Trayvon Martin reinforces the very real dangers that black Americans still face. Around 7 p.m. on February 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin walked out of the gated community near Orlando where he was visiting his father to go get some Skittles at a neighborhood [...]
Capital Punishment in the United States is like serving Schlitz Malt Liquor at a five-star wine and spirit tasting. It is that toothless, barefoot, stinking Uncle Jethro spitting tobacco in the pristine white porcelain handwash bowl during a five course gourmet meal. Not saying that being pristine and white are the sweet Victorian elixirs of [...]
[Editor's Note: The following is in reference to the case of Troy Davis, an unfairly convicted human being who is scheduled to be executed in two weeks… If you’re not familiar with the story, Troy Davis was convicted of murdering a Georgia police officer in 1991. Nearly twenty years later, Davis remains on death row [...]
Some time ago, I remember mentioning that the state of Michigan (and Detroit in particular), was ground zero for what the GOP has in store for America. From Detroit closing schools, giving teachers the boot, and introducing the for profit charter school model, to taking over entire municipalities and leaving elected official like mayors and city [...]
Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West – two of Black America’s least favorite Negroes right now – have embarked on what they call a “Poverty Tour”. My guess is they plan to criss cross America highlighting the millions of Americans negatively impacted by the Great Recession. You know, judging by policy choices and enactments on Capitol [...]
So now that a U.S default on its debt has been averted, leaving working poor folk holding the shitty end of the stick as usual, everybody and their momma wants to talk about job creation. isn’t that funny? I mean, isn’t it funny that now job creation is the focus? Hell, I’ve been speaking into [...]
Back in 1090, a few weeks after moving to southern Indiana, I was floored when I learned that there was a celebration called Nigger Day. Being new to the area, I was told that i should travel to a small town in Kentucky where Black folks celebrated the emancipation from slavery, commonly known and widely [...]
Chevere Marvel has made an impressive decision to shake things up a little bit, and add a little sabor to its Ultimate Spider-Man comic series. In Ultimate Fallout Issue number four–in stores Wednesday–a half-black, half-latino (Afro-Latino) kid named Miles Morales will be unveiled as the new Ultimate Spider-Man. Ya se armo, mi gente! Revealed in [...]
The pursuit of a higher education is no easy task. Truth be told, many students face many challenges. With finances or the lack thereof being number one, one would be amazed at the things some students do to make a dollar these days. I mean after all, with the cost of a higher education exploding as it [...]
I have really made a concerted effort not to get too engrossed in the so-called “debt-ceiling” debacle which is unfolding right now in the halls of the Capitol. Listening to the “pundits” and so-called journalists hype up something that will have dire consequences for so many Americans is, I find extremely distasteful and only adds [...]
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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