So Obama Had a “Hip Hop BBQ” & Didn’t Create One Job, Huh?
So now that a U.S default on its debt has been averted, leaving working poor folk holding the shitty end of the stick as usual,…
Politics
Is Gay the New Black?
The question of the hour that everyone seems to be asking, from some Prop 8 white supremacists to Queen Latifah on VH1’s “Single Ladies.” Is…
Police State: Racial Profiling, The Po-Po, & Me
The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.– James Baldwin, The Nation, 7/11/66 More…
I Used to Love Him: Common’s “Ghetto Dreams”
Last week, blogger Necole Bitchie posted rapper Common’s new song “Ghetto Dreams” that was quite a deviation from the image he’s purveyed in the past.…
Debt-Ceiling Dilemma – Choosing to Opt Out
I have really made a concerted effort not to get too engrossed in the so-called “debt-ceiling” debacle which is unfolding right now in the halls…
The Debt Ceiling Charade: Obama Moves Right
Speaking of lacking: I do hope the space shuttle Atlantis returns to earth from it’s mission with some jobs found floating around in space. I…
Uninsured Man Robs Bank for $1 to Get Access to Medical Care via Prison
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to yet another example of what it’s like for the working poor in America in 2011. Naturally…
Who said George Bush don’t like Black people!
You know I get sick of you people crying about racism as it applies to Barack Obama. Bill Clinton was the first Black president, but…
WHAT IF HILLARY WAS BLACK
Ok, so its no surprise that the issue of race has been played in this years presidential election campaign. The issue has sparked much needed…