I honestly don’t know what to say that hasn’t already been recognized about the George Zimmerman trial and the aftermath. The trial was nothing more than a poorly constructed show to shut up those who wanted justice for Trayvon Martin’s murder. The defense and the prosecution saw this case as an annoyance rather than a [...]
You wouldn’t be reading this blog. Every time something tragic happens, the masses take to social media. The tweeters tweet, the bloggers blog, the tumblrs do…whatever it is that they do. The online world as we know it changes their profile photos to pictures of a victim, a cause, and a consensual feeling that we [...]
I really hate to be a party pooper, but I don’t see this happening. I know, some of you are holding out hope that the Department Of Justice (DOJ) might come through in the interest of justice. But the truth is that, such an indictment in this case is unlikely. Given the evidence as we [...]
“Creepy-ass cracker” Those were the words Trayvon Martin referred to George Zimmerman who was following him that fateful night according to his friend Rachel Jeantel who has been reduced to an embarrassing joke against the black communty courtesy of the liberal media and twitter. And yes, that includes some members of ‘Black twtter’. I digress. [...]
On February 26, 2012, Trayvon Benjamin Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman. For those that spent the last seventeen months in solitary confinement, or aboard the International Space Station, Trayvon was returning home from a store carrying -what has now become the legendary details of this tragic event- a can of Arizona Iced [...]
The trial in the case of George Zimmerman has begun. The eyes of society are watching closely already drawing conclusions and verdicts for the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed young black teen male, after a scuffle resulting from a confrontation (on Zimmerman’s part) for ‘looking suspicious’. So far, it’s been nerve-racking [...]
I’m 2 years older than Paula Deen and am having a hard time getting worked up about her use of the word nigger. Considering how and when I’ve heard it during my six decades on this planet, I used to believe that it was one of the first words that white people taught their kids [...]
“On this day on June 17th, 1876 Crazy Horse and Knife Chief defeated General George Crook in the Rosebud River in what is now Montana. Combined forces of Cheyennes and Lakota Warriors stopped and drove General Crook and his Crow and Shoshone Scouts and sent them back to the south. Crazy Horse made 3 suicide [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard about Judge Edith Jones, a former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. If you haven’t, you may want to sit down and take your nerve pills pronto. Judge Jones is in the media spotlight for having racist attitudes regarding blacks, Latinos and Mexican Nationals. She [...]
BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does [...]
Not that I ever really lost it, but Edward Snowden has restored my faith in America. Whether you regard him as a hero or as a “traitor,” as John Boehner called him for his revealing government secrets (secrets which are in fact perfectly legal). The fact remains: There is nowhere else on earth that a [...]
With champions of racial equality like Rush Limbaugh around, who needs a conversation on race? In the wake of the George Zimmerman Not Guilty verdict, all week I’ve heard it mentioned that we’re in need of a national conversation on race. As one who absolutely champions for freedom, justice, and equality I applaud and urge [...]
He wasn’t armed with a block of concrete, but Daniel Adkins is dead. You’ve probably never hear the name Daniel Atkins or Jude Cordell before. Well, if you haven’t, don’t feel bad because it’s not your fault. Why? Because national media hasn’t mentioned their named over the past year. Instead, they have opted to run the [...]
Throughout history, critical national discussions have emerged that use black male bodies as a site of citizenship, race and moral discourse. Currently, Trayvon Martin like the long list of black men and boys that precede him, evokes an almost guttural immediacy to confront the insidious and crippling racial issues that are so ingrained in American [...]
It seems like everywhere you go someone wants to know your opinion of the verdict in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman. For us black folks, it’s almost like the time Michael Jackson was arrested for child molestation. Back then, no matter where you went, everyone white assumed that black folks still had jehri [...]
I honestly don’t know what to say that hasn’t already been recognized about the George Zimmerman trial and the aftermath. The trial was nothing more than a poorly constructed show to shut up those who wanted justice for Trayvon Martin’s murder. The defense and the prosecution saw this case as an annoyance rather than a [...]
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