To me, this stuff is just shameful. It reminds me a lot of the time when Alex P. Keaton of Family Ties back in the day suggested a book entitled “Burying Your Parents for Profit.”
To me, this stuff is just shameful. It reminds me a lot of the time when Alex P. Keaton of Family Ties back in the day suggested a book entitled “Burying Your Parents for Profit.”
Recently, the website theroot.com posted a slideshow of 17 Black men across the country who were also killed while being unarmed. Just as I have said repeatedly in the Trayvon Martin case, we do need to get to the bottom of all of those cases.
A “friend” of min on Facebook decided to take his angst regarding the Trayvon situation a little higher. So he decided to post real pictures of Blacks being lynched and burned with the subtitle “I am Trayvon”.
This stuff is so predictable. The latest development in the “We are Treyvon Martin” outrage is a Million Hoodie March where all the usual suspects will be hoging the mic and camera. What’s sad? Just this past weekend, 41 people (including children) were shot in Chicago alone. JUST THIS PAST WEEKEND! No hoodie for them. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While the “I am Trayvon” fakefests continue around the net, here’s another person who claims that she is now in fear for her child’s life…in Atlanta.
Posted on my Facebook page. By now most of us know of the tragic story of young Trayvon Martin who was shot for simply looking suspicious. According to the story, Martin was simply walking home from the local corner store when he
The other night, my son sent me a very long text message apologizing for something he did. He was not prompted by his mother or anybody else. Two things he said in his text just simply blew me away.
‘Lean on Me’ actor arrested in undercover drug buy More on the actor from IMDB.com “At 14 years of age, Huggy fell into the acting business when his mother brought him to a cattle-call audition in New York for the Warner Brothers feature “Lean on Me”, a starring role as a misguided drug-abusing junior high […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is why naming things after civil rights icons has always been an iffy thing for me.
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta/AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is lending his support to the Occupy Atlanta movement and says that their efforts are an extension of the struggle for civil rights fought by Jackson, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others. (more to article) Meanwhile, in Oakland, CA
MTV turns down Obama. “President Obama’s re-election campaign wants to connect with young Americans and
I have long held the opinion that the lack of food, decent shelter, money, etc. is not the main contributor of people who commit crime. Could it be a factor? Yes. But by and large, people who commit crime do so because they want to.
No pardon for you. I don’t care if you were trying to get your child into a better school. “School Residency Case: Board Rejects Pardon for Akron Mom” And let it be noted
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