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July 24, 2013 •
Media, Race •
Views: 1308
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
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July 15, 2013 •
Justice, Race •
Views: 1044
It took a long time for me to fall asleep last night following the Zimmerman verdict. Sure, I was angry. However my thoughts weren’t on Trayvon Martin. I fell asleep thinking of Sharon Louise Arter who died when she was 3 years old in Cleveland Ohio,
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July 5, 2013 •
Justice, Race •
Views: 909
Don’t you just love it when people show off their hate and think they have the freedom to do so because it’s their right to be offensive? A person can turn his(her) mouth into a second anus and talk some racist/sexist/homophobic/Islamophobic shit
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June 28, 2013 •
Justice, Race •
Views: 842
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
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June 26, 2013 •
Justice, Race •
Views: 903
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
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June 13, 2013 •
Justice, Politics, Race •
Views: 1177
Bill O’Reilly Plus Donald Trump Equals the Same Old Racism According to most white folks, crime in white communities is as rare as responsible black fathers. White neighborhoods are as close to peaceful utopias as Disney World, only without the rides
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June 10, 2013 •
Justice, Politics, Race •
Views: 1205
Since Edward Snowden revealed himself as the NSA data-mining whistleblower, let’s talk about our civil liberties shall we? I mean, now that civil liberties are on everyone’s mind, it would seem that today is probably the best day to talk about
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June 2, 2013 •
Justice, Race •
Views: 1122
As you know it is graduation season across the United States. It is the time of year where the parents, relatives, and friends of graduating students gather to support and celebrate the accomplishment. For students and supporters alike, a graduation ceremony
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May 29, 2013 •
Justice, Race •
Views: 1880
As if racial tensions in Sanford, Florida weren’t already on high pending the start of George Zimmerman’s trial in a few weeks. In comes a story of racism from he tiny town that probably will not help matters. As the story goes, a Papa
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May 25, 2013 •
Justice, Race •
Views: 1250
After two months of testimony, the trial against the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy has come to an end. Judge Shira A. Scheindlin presided over the case, and will give a final ruling in a few months. As I have mentioned on more than one occasion on this
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May 22, 2013 •
Justice, Race •
Views: 2413
So, a security officer at Walmart falsely suspected a white father of kidnapping his “mixed” children; and, some of my friends are mad about it. One of my friends sent me the following story and asked that I share my thoughts. In their opinion,
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May 15, 2013 •
Politics •
Views: 1522
I don’t know what it what it’s like to be white. I could be wrong, but speaking as a person of color, I’d say that it’s relatively a lot easier. But like I said, that’s just me comfortably speaking in my privileged black skin. Of
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May 10, 2013 •
Race •
Views: 1093
My man W. Kamau Bell is back on FX for a second season of his show “Totally Biased.” I really dig this cat and the work he puts in as a board member of Applied Research Center — they’re responsible for bringing us the site
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April 29, 2013 •
Justice, Race •
Views: 2312
Speaking of mass incarceration: Wisconsin leads the U.S. in incarceration of black men. There is no debate about the disproportional amount of black (and brown) men in prison across the United States. Whether this is a direct result of the genetic
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April 17, 2013 •
Justice, Race •
Views: 1510
I missed the premiere of the Ken Burns film The Central Park Five on PBS last night. It wasn’t until a few people following me on Twitter reached out to me to see if I was watching it, that I remembered that it was due to air. But being caught up in the
