Much has been made about Obama’s so-called stoic persona in dealing with the BP oil crisis. Not only is he being accused of arriving too late to the scene, he’s been called callous and non-empathetic to the pain of Gulf residents. However, the focus needs to be kept on the culprit, and that is obviously [...]
The showdown in Jamaica, where already far too many have been maimed or killed, is a glaring sign of our world in distress. Never mind this particular mêlée was initiated in order to cover the backside of a reported drug kingpin, folks are tired of laying down and taking whatever darkness rolls across the spectrum [...]
Does Glenn Beck have no code? After faithfully and religiously pushing family values on his show, not to mention disparaging President Obama for his so-called verbal attacks on the children of his political opponents, Beck has blurred the line as few others. The bottom-feeding, chalkboard-addicted ‘news reporting performer’ attacked the intelligence of the president’s 11-year-old [...]
There’s no comparing tragedies. Still, I can’t help but to think that any talk of equating the level of devastation born of the Gulf Coast oil spill with Hurricane Katrina is asinine as … well, the act of comparing tragedies. And yet, through the prism of purely partisan politics, more and more haters are trying [...]
Everywhere I go, Black folk are now echoing a common refrain: “Obama forgot about us.” Once infused with a renewed sense of energy and a raised level of hope following the election of our first African-American president, brothers and sisters are now begrudgingly beginning to question if the historic feat—largely earned on the backs of [...]
Then I go to my brother, and I say brother help me please But he winds up knocking me back down on my knees —Sam Cooke Well now we know the good folks at British Petroleum have been misleading us about the amount of oil leaking from that great wound in the Gulf. Experts now [...]
Self-described leader and Tea Party enigma Rand Paul is so very ‘not’ bright and un-politically correct that he has dared to state America should backtrack to the days when Blacks could not sit at white lunch counters. In what strikes me as the epitome of change no one should believe in, the Republican Senate candidate [...]
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on this date, but back in 1925. Reared during a time of the most savage and brutal racism this nation has ever known, he grew up to become both a fearless warrior and a symbol of the grave oppression that always seemed to loom all around him. To this [...]
How do you really ever begin to explain or even encapsulate this thing called Race? What we do know is that for far too many years, the offspring of American slaves have suffered the stinging lash of the literal and then metaphorical whip simply because of—Black skin. And now our brown Hispanic brothers and sisters [...]
The rainy season has officially begun in Haiti and fears loom for the nearly one million homeless citizens left destitute following January’s devastating earthquake. It’s peculiar and shameful that all of the monies collected worldwide for the assistance of this proud race of people have not yet seemed to have made it to their shores. [...]
