One Month Later
One month later… There’s not a whole that has changed monumentally surrounding the start of the Obama’s second term living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. For what it’s worth, everything, from […]
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The Bias of Mainstream Media
Anyone who reads this blog with any level of consistency knows where I stand on the hot-button topics of race, religion, politics and anything else that can be devoured in the […]
It’s a Democracy, Not a Theocracy: How The Black Church Gets it Wrong
Let me put a clear disclaimer before I launch into the deep with this blog post: The institutional Black Church as we know it, something that is a proper noun, […]
Student Loans Are Killing Black Wealth Building Efforts
I just paid my bi-monthly bills two mornings ago. Comfortably so, I might add. But that was because my car is still relatively new and I haven’t run into any […]
Uppity Updates: Week of February 5, 2012
Every once in a while, the news cycle of the life and times of the goings-on of America produces a completely blog worthy week–and usually that’s the week or so […]
Herman Cain, the Magical Negro…and Other Topics on Ontological Blackness
Let me just be up front and honest: I don’t like Herman Cain. Granted I dislike his opponent Texas Governor Rick Perry even less, and Rep. Michelle Bachmann has devolved […]
A Final Word on President Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus
The less and less I’ve found myself blogging over the past couple of months, when I do I try and add something new to the conversation. Something new doesn’t necessarily […]
The Rage of Black Academia: Melissa Harris-Perry and Cornel West, A Collegiate Conundrum
It would have been nice if Dr. Cornel West never made the personal comments on Obama, but it was an interview by Chris Hedges of Truthdig.com entitled “The Obama Deception: Why Cornel […]
Premature Autopsies: The Obama Administration
Yesterday, December 7th, President Barack Obama let it be known in his press conference that he was in favor of extending the Economic and Jobs Growth Tax Reconciliation Acts of […]
For Black Male Intellectuals Who Have Considered Suicide When Black Women Were Too Much
[Editor's note: The gross generalizations when using the blanket terms of "black women" or "black men" are not to be understood as engaging the stereotype of "all" and lumping everyone […]
