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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In September, 2012, I wrote about a racial incident involving a black woman named Brandi Worley. On the 18th of September, 2012 while overseeing and helping coordinate cleanup efforts in Grand Isle, Louisiana following Hurricane Isaac, Brandi was assaulted by a white male proprietor named Josh Jambon. A brief summary of events (per the police […]
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 […]
The world has gotten through another cavalcade of highly charged animated performances, a celebration of hypersexuality and an overall explosion for the adulation of style and fashion that is the 2013 Video Music Awards. At first, I wasn’t paying any mind to the yearly program that seems to celebrate music on a network where more […]
So, Rush Limbaugh thinks he’s like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rush Limbaugh is one funny white man. No seriously, folks; the sooner you accept him for the comedian that he is, like me, you too will refuse to take him seriously. After all, the only people who take anything he says as gospel are […]
The irony of a racist extremist working for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the nation’s first black president isn’t lost on me. In fact, in this post-racial age of Obama, one could say that times have changed to the point where this is expected. The trouble in this instance is that Ayo Kimathi, […]
I get the feeling that there’s a competition between the Carolinas. Given recent legislation set to disenfranchise minority voters in North Carolina — arguably the most progressive state in the south — the Tar Heel state has been giving its neighbor to its south a run for their money. But as racist fuckery would have […]
When it comes to stop-and-frisk, Don Lemon wants us to consider, that sacrificing the constitutional rights of minorities in the interest of safety is a good idea. I guess he’s been hanging out with Geraldo Riviera who recently said on Fox & Friends that stop-and-frisks protects minorities. If Don Lemon had to wear and cape […]
Okay, so here we go again with another one of these, folks. Hopefully this doesn’t become a trend, but this is the second such shooting in recent months. Many of us here at TIOMAR were horrified by the story of Jonathan Ferrell being shot and killed by a police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina. Pryor, […]
So a mother in Virginia dressed her 7-year-old son like a Klansman for Halloween, and says it’s no big deal. Why? Well, aside from the fact that the KKK has reformed its reputation, according to Jessica Black, it’s no big deal because the Klan raises money for St. Jude’s Children Hospital. Now we’ve discussed this […]
This past spring, I had the pleasure of attending a screening of the feature-length documentary Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights, directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Nev Nnaji at Smith College. Via interviews and compelling archival footage, the film chronicles the marginalization of Black women within the Black Nationalist and predominantly white middle-class feminist movements during the […]
Lest you read the title and conclude that this author has lost her mind completely take comfort in knowing that I didn’t know what a golliwog was either until recently. Doing my due diligence of reading various articles on various places on the web, I came across an article talking about a situation where eBay […]
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