Newsweek is reporting on June 26, 2020 that 92% of black voters prefer Biden over Trump.This is NOT news. I’ve said this before. Republicans consistently receive 8% of the Black vote in National elections. That’s it. No more and sadly, …
Why You Are NOT the Party of Lincoln
Ideologically speaking, the modern-day Republican party is not the party of Lincoln. In fact, they couldn’t be more opposite. While Republicans certainly don’t have a monopoly on White Supremacy, they most certainly have an undeniable appeal to those who openly …
Boiled Peanuts
The Confederate flag is back in the news again. NASCAR announced on Wednesday June 10, 2020 that it would ban the confederate flag at its properties. NASCAR said in a statement, “Bringing people together around a love for racing and …
But Nkrumah, You’re Different…
When a good friend of mine was a little girl she badly needed glasses.She still remembers how she felt when she finally put on a pair of prescription glasses for the first time and saw that the blurry, green part …
Cousins by Blood, Friendship by Choice
Tonight my family and I were dinner guests at Wavering Place, an old plantation founded in 1768 near Hopkins, South Carolina where four generations of my grandmothers lived and worked as slaves when they were emancipated in 1865. The reason …
Louis Farrakhan “likes what he sees in Donald Trump”
So Louis Farrakhan “likes what he sees in Donald Trump”, huh?The only people who would be surprised by this would be people who don’t know history. On Sunday, June 25, 1961, on the personal invitation of Elijah Muhammad, ten members …
White Identity & Shame of Poverty
Carl Jung said that shame is a soul eating emotion. In his New York Times opt Ed piece, Raising A Moral Child, contributor Adam Grant explained why Carl Jung wrote that about shame. The difference between shame and guilt is …
Unfriended
Recently a colleague of mine “unfriended” me from Facebook and refuses to speak to me or even acknowledge me when I am in their presence, all because they discovered that we hold diametrically opposing views on the subject of homosexuality. I …
A Tribute To The Electrifying Mojo
As you all know I am a huge fan of 80’s music. Over the past 15 years I have developed a collection of cds, vinyl, bootlegs and MP3 that I have downloaded that has spanned over 8,000 songs and recently …