The White Underbelly
Right-wing provocateur and author Ann Coulter, in 2017, told the world, “In 20 years, Russia will be the only country that is recognizably European.” Coulter was not trying to be vague or cute; she...
View ArticleLet’s Not Come to This
Journalistic etiquette dictates a decorum that eliminates ad hominem attacks. Words like stupid and crazy are generally unacceptable. That politeness has been stretched thin by the spate of right-wing...
View ArticleGiving Joe’s Peace a Chance
Russia’s fascist, authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin, accusing the Ukraine president of being a Nazi is unbelievable. Despite Putin’s Hitler-like statement, “I am convinced that this natural and...
View ArticleCourt(ing) Race
Senator(s) Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Tom Cotton wasted well over an hour of the public’s time yesterday. Instead of legitimate questions aimed at advancing the conversation about conservative and...
View ArticleOpinion: Some of the Strongest Women I know
Strong black women have surrounded me for most of my life. I cannot speak, personally, to accomplished women of other races, which I know there are many, but I can rely on my own experience. I was...
View ArticleUnder or Over Reaction?
Shortly after the slap heard ‘round the world last night, I feared my phone would catch fire from the tweets, messages, and calls. I am notorious for avoiding self-congratulatory award shows, and my...
View ArticleCoup-Like Symptoms
While the world focuses on a black man slapping another black man for an offense to his black wife, the real story of a black man defending his white wife’s alleged criminality is getting short...
View ArticleOpinion: Race and Modern Moments in Presidential History
A few of my readers have asked why I so often write about the link between politics and race. Aside from living as a Black American for over sixty years, American history disallows separation. I...
View ArticleThe Benghazi-Email-Hunter
The media seems infatuated with the narrative that ‘false equivalency’ is fair and balanced. I feel I am being forced into the “what about-ism” I despise, but I am left with no choice. The last three...
View ArticleGOP World: No Blacks, Gays, or Women
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings examining the credentials of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s fitness for the Supreme Court may be the biggest GOP confession since John Dean. The GOP and many...
View ArticleOpinion: Face the Truth, the Rank and File are Hate-filled
Anyone who has a primary, secondary, or tertiary relationship with a church, synagogue, or mosque is familiar with the phrase, “stealing my joy.” For me, it means putting the hardships of life in...
View ArticlePut a Quarter on It
Before 8-tracks, cassettes, iPods, DVDs, and Spotify, record players existed at the pinnacle of the medium. You would put a grooved disc on the turntable, lower the arm with a diamond-tipped stylus,...
View ArticleCommentary: Thoughtful and Prayerful
I did not have thoughts and prayers for the victims of yesterday’s subway shooting in Brooklyn, New York. AS OF THIS WRITING, I am thankful that no one was killed. I must first say, I have not been a...
View ArticleThe Minority Report
I cannot get into the mind of the unnamed Grand Rapids, Michigan, police officer who shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head two weeks ago, but I do know a suspect car tag is not a capital offense....
View ArticleThe Press Loves a Parade?
From the day Donald Trump confessed he was guilty of sexual assault, the press decided email conversations between Hillary Clinton, her daughter Chelsea, and her campaign chair[John Podesta] were more...
View ArticleMy Apologies for Bringing Up Racism
Being a black man, I have a perspective that I am sure will match the experience of other races. People of color in America spend a lot of time apologetic to racists. Massa, we sick. I am sure he did...
View ArticleWhat is Between Your…?
Narrow-minded conservatives believe the organ(s) between our legs are more important than the organ between our ears. The latest Republican freak out over trans people’s rights and the LGBT+ community...
View ArticleOf ‘Mouse’ and Men
It is not hyperbole to say former President Obama saved us from the brink of irreversible financial disaster in 2009 with little fanfare. It is also not hyperbolic to say current President Joe Biden...
View ArticleCommentary: Without the Truth, Free Speech is a Lie
One major political party has decided that the definition of free speech is lying without the temperance of truth and has weaponized it into propaganda. Day after day, the sad part is that we get...
View ArticleWash, Rinse, and Deceit
Today’s politics has devolved into one side, brainwashing its base, ringing the last drop of truth from a lie, and punctuating what’s left with deceit. No matter how often you hear it, both sides do...
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