Archive for Reproductive Rights

You’re Pro-Life But Not When It Comes to Women?!

Dec 01, 2011 No Comments by

Sometimes I neglect to write simply because I realize that my writing is driven by more passion then it is by academia. I am just as capable of writing a coherent sentence and balancing an argument with the pro and con of an issue as anyone else with an Undergraduate Degree but sometimes I just [...]

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Should We Be Ashamed About Proud Pregnant Black Teens?

Nov 08, 2011 6 Comments by

Pregnancy Pact or Just Young Black Girls Comparing Bellies? Does It Matter?  I was presented with the picture below and asked to take a stab at making some type of social commentary from it. A group of young black girls with their pregnant bellies distended, smart phones in hand, in a bathroom somewhere rocking khaki’s [...]

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Black Mississippi Woman Faces Life in Prison for Giving Birth to Dead Baby at Fifteen

Jul 13, 2011 2 Comments by

So I’m hearing that upon release, Casey Anthony will be whisked away to a secret location and a new identity. Oh the lenghts “certain people” will go to protect a baby killing white woman – sucks to be you O.J. Simpson. Speaking of baby killers, let’s meet a little know “baby killer” who just so [...]

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Wait, is Barack Obama Gay? Uhm, is He Still Black?!!

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 [...]

Tennessee Cop “Robs” Out-Of-State Driver Of $22,000 After Traffic Stop

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 [...]

Does Anti-Profiling Legislation Really Work?

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 [...]

Post-Racial Update: Republican KKK Leader Running for Sheriff Invites Media to Cross Burning

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 [...]

Amendment One: Wasn’t North Carolina The “Good” Carolina?

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 [...]