Comey in the Box
Tomorrow, FBI Director James Comey will be held up for public display by the Republicans as the traitor they’ve always believed him to be. If you have forgotten, Director Comey blocked the...
View ArticleBeing pro both is not mutually exclusive…
I am a former business financial auditor and as a result have many friends on the police department, I am an African American man. I respect the job the police are tasked with and respect the...
View ArticleA Seminal Moment
Seminal- adjective(of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments:After Aurora, after Newtown, after Orlando and now after Louisiana, Minnesota and Dallas the word seminal...
View ArticleAnd the Wheels on the Bus go ‘Round and ‘Round
As Chris Christie continues to wipe away the tread marks from his suit, Chief Justice John Roberts looks for an axle grease solvent and FBI director James Comey licks his wounds, the wheels of the...
View ArticleFrom Ronald to Donald
Who knew that when Ronald Reagan popularized willful ignorance and made the phrase “plausible deniability” a legitimate excuse for either lying or neglect, that Donald Trump would turn it into an art...
View ArticleAsk Yourself…
White conservative America nearly lost its mind at the thought that President Barack Obama had associated himself with someone who carried the stigma of being anti-America, the Reverend Jeremiah...
View ArticleShe’s got the Best Words
I got a peek at the first draft of Melania Trump’s memoire and the opening line begins with the words, two-score and six years ago. Okay, okay that was a cheap attempt at writing something clever but...
View ArticleMeredith McIver Taking the Hit
Self-proclaimed “Trump staffer” Meredith McIver, is taking the blame for the plagiarism flap committed by Melania Trump, wife of Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump. Ms. McIver has now come up with...
View Article“Well, but Hillary”- Every Republican Pundit.
The Democratic National Convention starts today in my backyard of Philadelphia, Pa. I am already bemoaning the traffic and logistical problems of traversing my town but I am thrilled the alternative...
View ArticleLet me Quantify...
I am looking for an explanation. Why has my country been so paranoid about admitting the egregious behavior of the ruling class against minority groups and women, without a quantifier?Nothing bad will...
View ArticleThe Bridge I Crossed
I am sure a lot of you watched the headliners at the DNC Convention, who gave us wonderful speeches, introductions, music and jokes along with food for thought. Being a political geek, I avoided the...
View ArticleCon vs. Khan
The best description of Donald J. Trump were the two words used this morning by the father of late Captain Humayun Khan, “ignorance and arrogance.”The amount of arrogant-ignorance displayed by...
View ArticleAnother Orange Brick in the Wall
We don’t need no education…All in all it was just all bricks in the wall– The Wall, Pink FloydThe guru of orange subversives, Donald Trump, has built his wall unbeknownst to the Republican Party. It...
View ArticleMy New Approach, Ronald Reagan said, …
On November 20th of nineteen seventy-five former President and patron saint of the Republican Party, Ronald Reagan said, “we must offer…the truth instead of promises.”Between his late night twitter...
View ArticleExactly what is a Black Parent to say, in “the conversation?”
Setting aside the circumstances of the alleged criminal activity in the recent death of black teenager Paul O’Neal by the hands (gun) of the Chicago police department, what do I say to my sons? The...
View ArticleWhy Republicans use Donald Trump to Mask Their Complicity
Donald Trump is just the outbreak of a disease that has been a long incubating virus in Republican circles. The voice of mean, Ann Coulter, became the leading voice of Republican denigration when she...
View ArticleJohn, Martin and Bobby, Where is the Humor?
In 1963 I was seven years old. I was a happy Black boy who idolized my Great-grandmother, I referred to her as my Ma, and thought her strength was infinite. I was out of school on Friday November 22,...
View ArticleWhich Came First, the Chicken or the Trump?
Am I alone, in being disturbed by the fact, Republican Anti-Trumpeters never mention his dehumanization of non-whites as a major factor for their opposition? I am aware of one issue voters, see gun...
View ArticleAfter Malcolm… Martin
Recently I recounted my feelings and more importantly the feelings of the most important woman in my life, my great-grandmother, the day President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot to death. I grew up...
View ArticleA Trump in Sheep’s Clothing
Donald Trump has “regrets.” It could be for his mocking of the disabled, designating Mexicans as rapist, suggesting criminal punishment for women choosing abortion and leaving the Baltic States and...
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