I’ve been following the news surrounding the controversy over the name change of the Washington Redskins (one of few American sports teams with Native American nicknames and monikers). Native American activists and advocates have been working to get the team to change its name, but so far, the team’s owner Daniel Snyder continues to refuse. […]
I understood what gentrification was long before I learned the definition in college. It didn’t take a loan from Sallie Mae for me to notice the deterioration of my neighborhood to the point of it resembling a third world country. As the environment deteriorates the local papers report of Federal funding and the plans to […]
Meritocracy says that anyone working at McDonald’s in this country doesn’t deserve to be earning a penny more than they now are. Why? Because they’re not worthy. Why? Because in this country one’s success is measured by how much better one is living relative to the other. For people who are against an increase of […]
Last Friday a woman called 911 seeking medical assistance after she suspected that her fiancé may have taken too much insulin. Instead of an ambulance, police responded to the Waycross, Georgia home to what they say was a suicide attempt. Shortly after their arrival, 43-year-old Jack Lamar Roberson, is shot and killed for acting aggressively and […]
Even President Obama has weighed into the debate over the name of the NFL team the Washington Redskins, indicating if he owned the team, he would “think about” changing the name. But here’s the thing: I’ve heard many opinions on this issue, but very few from actual Native Americans. Most people writing about this issue think it’s not a big […]
The U.S. Government is still closed. Already, the public is starting to see its disastrous effects with more to come in the near future if a resolution isn’t reached soon. Yet, some members of the gang (That’s right. I call them a ‘gang’) seem jovial about the whole fiasco. The Talking Points Memo reports: Rep. […]
I have been having so much thoughts about Veronica Brown, it has been unsettling. With the adoptive couple now suing the biological father for half a million dollars on top of taking his daughter away from him. Adding insult to injury. My mom said it goes to show, the government still doesn’t care about us. […]
I checked out an article from Salon where the CEO of one of the largest insurance companies AIG Robert Benmosche made a highly absurd, droll and all-around stupid comment about its government funded bonuses. Those bonuses were awarded to keep the insurance giant from sinking despite its questionable and morally criminal business practices in which […]
This was the week the new fall season of television got underway. Did you catch The Ted Cruz Show this week? Limited production values. Lousy acting. Boring script. If there ever was a program that deserved cancellation before the debut, Senator Cruz’s phony filibuster to defund Obamacare was definitely it. Terrible Ted hopes he call […]
Raise your hand if when you heard about the terrorist hostage-taking situation in Kenya you thought, “They’re malls in Africa?” Well, apparently the condiment has come a long way since monkeys taught Tarzan how to speak. But of course you knew that, right? Of course you did. The only thing you don’t know about Africa […]
Craig Cobb is a white supremacist who has been recently purchasing land in a small North Dakota town called Leith. His plan is to transform the tiny town of twenty-four residents into a haven of white supremacy; and he plans to do so by first gaining political power. When I first came across this story […]
Picture being a parent, signing off on a permission slip enabling your child access to what you think will be an once-in-a-lifetime educational experience that’ll enhance what your child is already learning at his/her school. Now imagine, later, discovering that the ‘experience’ you permitted your son or daughter to participate in included them being chased at night […]
This week has certainly been eventful, and not in a good way mostly. We had a mass shooting at a navy yard in Washington D.C. that rocked the nation, and just as I feared, it was done by a brotha. Aaron Alexis was reported as a man with mental illnesses that a history of gun […]
What can you say about a man who can shoot and kill an unarmed teenager due to his baseless fear and depraved since of justice? What can you say about a man who was charged with “shoving a police officer”, only to have the charges dropped soon after? What can you say about a man […]
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 […]
A few years ago after Kanye West pulled his “Hey look at me!” stunt at the MTV Video Awards and showed up Taylor Swift no less than the President joined in the chorus of disapproval and called West, “a jackass.” Kanye has worked very hard since to justify that put down. The other day he […]
So a black kid in a Chicago suburb dressed up like “Jesus” for Halloween, and was kicked out of school as a result. I could think of getting kicked out of class for any number of infractions. But, to be removed from class for dressing up like Jesus — especially for Halloween — would have […]
As a child, I remember Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas being the most fun holidays at the final quarter of each year. I loved Halloween because I looked forward to eating loads of candy. I loved Thanksgiving because school was closed for a few days. I looked forward to watching the broadcast airings of the Thanksgiving […]
It is the most repetitive game played in human history and has a special ability to exploit fear, initiate war and produce narrow minds. This game is called ‘fear of the other’ and it is played as much as anywhere else in American politics, with America proudly leading the charge. This ‘other’ was once the […]
Prior to season three’s Coven, I’d never watched the American Horror Story series. I had a brief dalliance with the first season’s Murder House installment, but my interest waned, and I gave up after the first three episodes. I didn’t bother with season two and, fortunately, American Horror Story unfolds like an anthology, and features a new story each season, […]
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