Not trying to beat a dead horse, but it would appear from emails received and subsequent conversations after my recent post, that some of you still don’t get it. about Smiley & West’s “Poverty Tour”. Not trying to belabor a point; in the following clip from Morning Joe, I think Smiley & West do a good job [...]
I chuckle at the Oscar winning performances of my former congressional representative, Maxine Waters. She learned well from the Tinsel Town just north of her district, as she is full of drama, and is quite the diva. But everyone on the hill knows her reputation of being quite the bullying chick, even during tea time. [...]
Originally posted at ChasingSixPacks.com First, let me start off by saying I think that actor Boris Kodjoe and his wife Nicole Ari Parker seem like genuinely nice people and a fine couple. With that said, I think Kodjoe’s sanctimoniousness got in the way of a great message–one that’s been done over and over again–but one [...]
I’m not going to get into some of the stupid stuff “we” do to hold ourselves to perceived sterotypes. Nor am I going to address the fact that foolishness like this is all the fault of the Black men who abandons the mother(s) of their children. Nope, instead I’m just gonna say that while “certain [...]
You know, I’m kinda sorta a funny guy; I mean, I know when a jke is funny or not. I’m also a professional racism-chaser, so I know racism. More to the point of this story, I know when jokes are racist. What can I cay; I’ve lived in Indiana and Kentucky once upon a time. Haxing said [...]
Rep. Maxine Waters has suely been making the rounds in the media for the last week. Most recently, at yet another town hall, she has provided yet another soundbite with the statement: “The Tea Party can go to hell!” Now much has been said about this throughout the Black blogosphere; and you better believe that [...]
Sometimes I have to pinch myseklf to make sure that I’m not dreaming. I mean, every now and then I have to do this just to be sure that this is indeed 2011 and not 1052. When I read the following story, With shades of Emmeit Till, the irony of the story is that it [...]
