Madness & Reality

If you have watched the news or been online at all today, I am sure you’ve heard about the protests of Neo-nazis, Klansmen, and other far rightists that descended on Charlottesville, Virginia. They’re violent and are deadly serious about their intentions. In a battle with anti racist protesters, one member of the Industrial Workers of the World was killed when...

  It wasn't a dark and stormy night, it was a nice warm summer evening in Charlottesville, VA. Clear skies and a cool summer breeze. The darkness was gradually chased away by the flicker of torches, the silence broken by chants of "Blood and Soil".  Several unfortunate souls were accosted on their way home from church and subjected to racial...

Jay Cutler was signed this week by the Miami Dolphins. The fact that Cutler was coaxed out of retirement and Colin Kaepernick was overlooked has angered many. For many, Cutler being offered a one-year deal worth $10 million with $3 million in incentives, serves as proof that Kaepernick is being blackballed. To them, Cutler's signing justifies the argument that...

A few weeks ago, HBO issued a press release that show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss of “Game of Thrones” were leading the charge for a show entitled “Confederate.” The press release states that it will posit what would have happened post-Battle of Antietam in 1862 where a lost field order fell into the hands of the Union army....

Let's talk about immigration, shall we? Ever notice that nobody ever highlights the fact that the fastest-growing racial demographic in America is Asian? The Asian population is growing faster than the Latino population. Yes, it really is. Even more interesting is that you never hear the anti-immigration crowd argue that we need to cut legal immigration because Asians are stealing...

Because the administration of Trump was a veritable dumpster fire even before the inauguration, the Democrats never had the usual trial by fire and public shaming that the losing party normally gets. There was never an opportunity for the Democratic party to listen to its constituents and perform a full autopsy on just how catastrophic the 2016 election was....

The Breakfast Club was a favorite of mine during morning work commutes. Mostly, it was the conversations and interviews that kept me engaged. Also, there would always be some type of “gossip” type of information that would allow me to analyze the lives of famous people. And then, there was The Donkey of the Day segment. I must say...

2017 and we still reference this man. People still stand by him or vilify his actions. We either threaten boycott or tell him he should have been a good boy. If Shannon Sharpe doesn’t support him, it is guaranteed that Ray Lewis will wax rhythmic poetic to disagree like a new age Rev. Uncle Ruckus. So many take sides. And yet, we...

It's August, so you know what that means? Yes, everyone is on vacation on Capitol Hill. Congress is away on vacation and your hard-working president is as well. He's about to take off for 17 days to hang out at his golf resorts and anywhere that doesn't resemble the "dump," he calls the White House. My guess is that a...

Like Michael Vick recently, former NFL player and Hall-of-Famer Ray Lewis, said a stupid thing intended as advice to Colin Kaepernick. Lewis, the former Baltimore Raven linebacker posted a video via Twitter with what appears to be a message of encouragement. This turned out to be an epic fail on the part of Lewis. No stranger to saying stupid things unrelated...

Is HBO's forthcoming show Confederate a bad idea? I personally think it's a great idea, but that's just me. What's so bad about a series set in a present day alternative universe where the South won the Civil War? In a world where the South secedes, slavery is still the order of the day? If anything, I think the series would...

My mother always says, "Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash." That's some very sound advice straight from the mouth of a very tough but sweet church-going English teacher who once took a switchblade off a kid in her classroom and, years after her retirement, still commands respect as one of the toughest teachers who...

  Over at a forum named Lipstick Alley, there's a thread that asks if there are any black celebrities that hasn't let you down yet. I guess 'letting down' refers within the range of declaring that all lives matter to run-ins with the law. In one week, celebrity news has been on fire with three jaw-dropping stories concerning black male celebrities....

Enlarge this image Former Detroit police chief Ike McKinnon (L), Motown musician David Coffey (center), and former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer (R). Denise Guerra/NPR hide caption toggle caption Denise Guerra/NPR Detroit has faced a tumultuous past, but the most painful week in Detroit's modern history arguably happened exactly 50 years ago. On July 23, 1967, after decades of discrimination, poverty, and mistreatment by...

Okay, so we now know that the police officer who shot and killed Justine Damond is black. Yes, and Justine was a white woman from Australia who was soon-to-be married. The officer that killed her is Mohamed Noor. Like Justine, he too is an immigrant This, of course, means little to a rationally thinking person like me. After all, Noor was still a...