“We do not force our beliefs onto our children.” A preacher I was listening to the other day (never got his name) addressed this modern-day thought on parenting quite nicely in my view. Because I do not remember word for word his exact comment, I can paraphrase it pretty good.
(CNN) — Bobby DeLaughter — the prosecutor who secured the conviction in the infamous Medgar Evers Mississippi murder case — is himself now headed to prison. It was DeLaughter’s dogged 1994 prosecution and the subsequent conviction of Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith that helped trigger the reopening of dozens of civil rights […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Michelle Obama ‘racist’ monkey picture reappears online As much hate is being generated over this picture, I’m still amazed over the amount of traffic critics continue to give these pages. It’s not about the picture. It’s about making the issue larger than life to cover for more pressing issues that are not popular to talk […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Slowly but surely, Obama’s fan base is letting their frustrations about his administration be known. I had to respond to one of them. “Now this is funny. A year ago one would have been considered either a self-hating Black person or racist for simply speaking the obvious about Obama. Six months into his Presidency, it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.” (Rush Limbaugh’s comment regarding the NFL back in 2007) This was one of the line critics of Rush reached for when he made his bid to be a part owner of the St. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From CNN.com “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” (Benjamin Franklin) The sad thing about this is that I was watching a report yesterday that said that even with the full body scan, there is not guarantee that it can pick up the type of bomb […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because you are depending on the same small group of people to one day “feel like” focusing on what you want to hear. In the meantime, all over the net new media has been answering the call. Online magazine targeting the Black man. Like what you see? Let the publisher know? Don’t like what you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Where did you grow up? Beaumont, Texas. I lived in a neighborhood called Hollywood Village. It was a rough neighborhood. It was the neighborhood where, when it was time for our bus route to be combined with another bus route, the parents were complaining: “We don’t want our kids on the bus with those kids.” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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