The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fear Mongering for Riots after the Zimmerman Verdict

“I’m absolutely convinced that a riot merely intensifies the fears of the white community while relieving the guilt…. It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in […]

The Tenth Justice Report: An Uppity Review of the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Voting Rights Act

THE UPPITY NEGRO, dissenting (and somewhat concurring with the opinion of the Court) SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (of the Uppity Negro Court) No. 12–96 SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA, PETITIONER v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., ATTORNEY GENERAL, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA […]

Superman and the Need for an American Savior

Maybe I’m more churchy than I thought, but the christological references in the blockbuster “Man of Steel” was so overwhelming is pushed the movie from epic to cheesy. This was not “The Dark Knight” which in my opinion still outranks this latest genre of Hollywood revisiting the comic classics for the sake of getting me […]

I THOUGHT I Heard the Sound of the Abundance of Rain: The Jason Collins Story

And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. \ 1 Kings 18:41, King James Version Recently, the United States had the first male player of a professional sports group publicly come out as gay. His name is Jason Collins–and he’s black! Given the […]

Obama’s Nod to Black Feminine Beauty

Okay, I’ve been behind recently as far as current events go and leaving some sage commentary. That being said, I know I’m a bit behind concerning what was deemed a gaffe by many people on both sides of the political spectrum, by President Obama concerning California Attorney General Kamala Harris. The line was simply “the […]

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 my point of view has continued on as normal. The Republican party seems to still be the party of No, tempting the fate of this […]

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 context of cultural criticism. Most people know, I self-identify as a Democratic socialist at the heart of my political being–meaning I support the idea […]

Why I’m Still Not Voting Republican

This election cycle has been quite the snoozefest. I’ve mad this observation more than once on Twitter and also in a few posts that I’ve done over at FWD Nation as well. This is an election where we lacked the novelty of an (Half)rican American candidate being the first nominee of a major party. We […]

How Long? Not Long: Southern Baptist Convention Elects First Black President, Fred Luter

How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. That quote from Martin Luther King at the steps of the Alabama state capitol following the turbulence of the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 rings hollow at times. Sure the arc of the moral universe is […]

Why Chris Hayes Was Right and Shouldn’t Have Apologized

I know it’s old news, but this was a topic I had intended to weigh in and offer my opinion. In case you missed it, last week MSNBC host Chris Hayes’ made some comments about the word “hero” attached to the word “soldier.” I remember reading the initial story from a couple of tweets and […]

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