Kicking your Way to the Goal of Equity
In the middle of a simmering rape scandal involving writer E. Jean Carroll and a peripheral connection to sex trafficking, with the arrest of Trump friend Jeffrey Epstein, the White House was furthered...
View ArticlePaul Ryan, you are Lame
‘Don’t cheat on your wife. Don’t cheat on anything. Be a good person. Set a good example.’-Paul Ryan. The preceding quote was a reported candid criticism from the book, American Carnage: On the Front...
View ArticleAmerica; Love it or Leave it…
In the 1960s and 1970s, the pre-Twitter meme of its’ day was “America, love it or leave it.” Racism, protest to the Vietnam war and women’s rights were at issue. Like an abused spouse, dissent was...
View ArticleBoth Sides Do it... ‘Again’
Two-hundred and forty combined Congressmen and women voted to officially condemn Donald Trump, for maligning 4 American female members of Congress, of color, as interlopers, who should “go back” to the...
View ArticleThe Gang of Hate
Not only has the Republican Party allowed Donald John Trump to operate above the law, but they have also sanctioned his acts beyond humanity. In 2013 eight Senators, 4 Democrats and 4 Republicans [The...
View ArticleDo-nothings, Know-nothings and Trump-nothings…
It has been widely accepted that the “Third Rail” of politics is tampering with Social Security benefits. Similarly, the third rail of conversation is religion. Buried beneath the press but giving...
View ArticleIt’s not Collusion it’s Corruption
In a closely contested TV football game, viewers let out a relieved sigh, take a bathroom break, maybe grab a sandwich or a hand full of chips and take a deep breath, anticipating a conclusion. I find...
View ArticleAn Optic(al)Collusion
How superficial has America become? Am I to believe, that because Robert Mueller did not bare his back like Denzel Washington in the hit film ‘Glory’or yell out of the window reminiscent of Howard...
View ArticleTrump Wants ‘Us’ to Save Him from ‘Them’
Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear, that there is a white America that he believes will save his version of ‘Us’ and his presidency. I have read story after story about the infighting that is...
View ArticleDemocrats... be Democrats!
This will not be the first or last time you read or hear the next few lines today, “You know—I don’t understand why anybody does (sic) to all the trouble of running for President of the United States,...
View ArticleThe Party of Reagan: Back to the Future
One of the most overused talking points of the Republican Party is calling themselves the “party of Lincoln.” Because too much of America has no sense of historical nuance, explaining that Lincoln...
View ArticleGranting Permission
We had two more highly publicized incidents of terror this past weekend, both of which warranted nationwide and worldwide attention. Of course, Trump’s janitors of word cleanup, took to the Sunday...
View ArticleThe Cartoonish White Nationalist: Fake Views
I am a Black man, over sixty years old, who grew up in Washington, D.C without my biological parents. When I was 11 years old, I was in the 5th grade and attended an elementary school located in the...
View ArticleNot Without my Children
The first two lines of the opening stanza of my favorite poem read, “If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…”-Rudyard Kipling. One of the gifts of...
View ArticleGive me Only your Lively, your Rich?
This morning the acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ken Cuccinelliannounced the White House plan for further mistreatment of those most in need. Setting aside all the...
View ArticleThe Real Reason for Opposing Immigration
The real problem is not that immigrants are destroying the American dream but that they are achieving it. If you are in the segment of America that applauded the re-writing of the plaque on the Statue...
View ArticleA Willingness to Collude
Not too many weeks ago Donald Trump told Democratic Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib along with three other American congresswomen of color to go back from where they came. Of course, Mr. Trump...
View ArticleThe Vilest Voice in the Room
Recently, the Showtime cable network aired a 7-part series entitled The Loudest Voice. The show centered around the behavior of a man driven by paranoia, narcissism, and sexual malevolence. If you...
View ArticleIncessant, and Absurd
President Trump has repeatedly accused the two Muslim-American women in Congress of being Jew-haters and enemies of Israel. His repeated base rallying cries, specifically aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar,...
View ArticleRight Pitch, Wrong Strategist
I am sure my next few words may come as a surprise to many of you, but the President has a few good ideas; Correcting the imbalance with our foreign trade partners, specifically the Chinese, has...
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