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 [...]
So, here we are with yet another post-racial America update. How long has it been now? What, almost four years? Man, time sure has flown since that cold day in January 2009 when us minorities gained full equality here in America. All thanks and praises due to president Barack Obama of course. Just think, if [...]
Some people take umbrage with my defining myself as a hood rat. They say that by doing so, I’m not only demeaning myself, but I’m also demeaning other Black people in the process. But people who think like that are violating one of the most important principles in life – that we should always seek [...]
I’m disturbed when I see Black folks organizing in the interest of justice for an innocent 17-year-old kid killed by a white man in Florida, while simultaneously undermining the efforts of a “white man,” to bring Joseph Kony to justice for crimes against thousands of innocent children in Uganda. I think there’s a word for [...]
My man Rev. Al Sharpton made my day today. I’ve said what I’ve had to say about the immigration debate, and these new Voter ID laws on this site; and please believe I have more to say. But for now, just listen to what the good reverend had to say on the steps of the [...]
While some might be quick to cite the failures to right the ship that is America as all the more reasoning to get that ni–… uh, let’s not go there today… “Marxist” out of office this coming November, I am happen to prescribe to a different line of thinking personally… Me? I am more of [...]
Please don’t get me confused, as I am very excited that Mumia Abu-Jamal has now been taken off of death row. He will now spend the rest of his life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for the 1981 killing of a Phildelphia Officer. The former Black Panther member was convicted of gunning down white police Officer [...]
I wonder if Rippa will allow my original title to live? Yeah, sometimes he changes the wording around a little. He says it helps with SEO and shit, since this is a blog and since blogs are also a business, he has to take this into consideration. Of course the words do matter, but the [...]
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 [...]
Yes, that’s a question I’ve always wanted to ask. Being a kid from the Caribbean where there’s no Thanksgiving holiday, or traditions, I’ve always wanted to know whether white folks were known to partake of chitlins for Thanksgiving, or whether that was just a black thing? I’ve been in many homes across the country over [...]
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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