Wherever you live, whatever your circumstances, no matter if you woke up with a stiff neck and a sore back from sleeping in your car because you had nowhere else you could go, count your blessings no matter how small and meager they might be it. If the world doesn’t seem a measurably better place […]
Jesus Christ! What is this world coming to when a black person isn’t allowed to call another black person the n-word or even use the n-word around them? Okay, let me clear this up, folks. Apparently according to a federal jury in New York, you can be held financially accountable for calling someone black the […]
In watching yesterday’’s activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington in 1963. I was reminded of the part of the Dr. King’s speech that is rarely ever mentioned by talking heads and historical pundits. “In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital […]
It’s sad that you already know what kind of comments you’ll expect from certain people if you write an article like this. Here we go for the 1,239,346th time with the usual responses: ”This is typical liberal/leftist bullshit.” ”Stop with the race-baiting.” ”Statistics show that blacks commit the most crime in this country.” ”Black people worship the gangster-criminal lifestyle.” ”The […]
So, does Antoinette Tuff — the brave woman who talked the gunman down and stopped him from committing yet another school shooting massacre in but this time in Atlanta — have to be animated like Charles Ramsey or Sweet Brown to be widely celebrated, as a hero, in mainstream media? Am I the only one […]
Okay, so where do I start this one? Well, let’s just say that this one hits close to home — literally. Alright, so I got a call from my beat friend who lives in Evansville, Indiana early last week. He called to tell me about a local story involving the Evansville Police Department and an […]
There are good cops, and there are bad cops. And then there are cops like Herbert Eugene Miller who make it hard for good cops by betraying the public trust. Not that he is known for being overly aggressive as an officer of the law. But in a world where the first line of public […]
Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the parents of Trayvon Martin, has an interesting op-ed in the Washington Post this week. In it, he makes the case for an amendment to Florida’s stand-your-ground law. Given the fact that the Dream Defenders are no longer occupying the state Capitol and office of Florida’s Governor Rick Scott. For […]
Don’t ever let it be said that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn’t love the minorities in his city. I mean, if as Mayor your rationale or justification for the violation of the rights of minorities happens to be because you’re trying to keep them safe as Bloomberg has, then yes, I would say […]
Jesse Jackson Jr. is a disgrace. Apparently being a former congressman has its perks. Aside from the surety of a nice plush job with a lobbying firm, there’s always the possibility of becoming the mayor of a major U.S. city. Which is pretty cool especially if you’re into exercising the privilege of sexually harassing female […]
So a federal judge says that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy which targets minorities is unconstitutional and discriminatory And now NYC mayor, Mike Bloomberg is mad, and acting like the judge just told him that white folks have to pick cotton for free. Of course, as white privilege would have it, according to Bloomberg, the NYPD […]
Osama Bin Laden has represented a host of ideas from various angles. But one thing he remains in the US mind is a myth, a fictitious being that has operated with God-like qualities in a cave, just like Jesus. Nobody actually saw him, but people hated, feared and/or revered what he epitomized. And then there […]
No matter where you are, it seems that there is some source out there that will tell you that a black person has done something wrong. It can be a newspaper in the store or through word-of-mouth from a friend, relative or family member. At some point during the week, a black person somewhere will […]
Escaping the plantation last night I turned on the TV to catch up on the news and found my breath caught in my throat as I watched a real live hero, Diana Nyad stepping onto the Florida shores after swimming for 53 straight hours from Cuba. I didn’t even realize with the tears started falling […]
Wherever you live, whatever your circumstances, no matter if you woke up with a stiff neck and a sore back from sleeping in your car because you had nowhere else you could go, count your blessings no matter how small and meager they might be it. If the world doesn’t seem a measurably better place […]
What do you do when you’re the pastor of a black church in the bible belt when you think your church has become too black? Well, you do what Pastor Makeda Pennycooke of Freedom House Church did. That would be, you’d circulate an email to members of your congregation expressing your concern. And of course […]
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