Race and crime statistics discussions always end with White people emphasizing that Blacks have higher crime rates and Black people stressing that concentrated enforcement leads to increased crime detection, arrests and thus, higher crime rates. It’s similar to Donald Trump’s outlook on COVID19 testing, where he loathed testing for the deadly disease because positive cases … [Read more…]
With so much talk about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock for making a joke about his Wife, Jada Pinkett at the Oscars ceremony this year, most are simply taking sides and not seeing the great opportunity this mishaps gives Will. While I’m sure Will Smith sees his blunder, given the facts as they are, he … [Read more…]
When it comes to economics there’s theory and there’s reality. Many Trump supporters say he created the “strongest economy in history” but that’s simply not true. Trump simply rode President Obama’s wave, enhancing it through deregulation and Fed rate cuts as the Obama’s momentum slowed. Had it not been for Covid, his pseudo-prosperity would have … [Read more…]
I have several talents I choose not to exploit for profit. I’m a pretty good drummer. I’m a natural motivational speaker and I can breathe life into anyone’s inspirations. My knack for law enables me to beat cops and government authorities in the courtroom constantly. When people I know learn of these talents their first … [Read more…]
While I was having coffee on Hollywood Boulevard the other day A Black man violated an Asian woman. I didn’t pay her or her friend any mind when I saw them come and go. Ten minutes later the security guard, a Black man who I’m friends with, pops his head out to the patio to … [Read more…]
President Biden will nominate America’s first Black woman Supreme Court Justice. This opportunity will give us a chance to see America’s racism as it occurs. America was a racist country from its inception and is still racist enough to be very effective at hindering black people’s full participation in the American experience. Rather than work … [Read more…]
Many African Americans say “Barack Obama didn’t do anything for Black people.” This talking point reeks of a propaganda campaign rather than a view genuinely coming from the Black mindset. Given that we began in America as slaves, having a Black man take Western society’s highest seat of power means some degree of progress. Having … [Read more…]
It’s funny how in the face of a deadly disease, American citizens, the richest and smartest people in the world, cannot unify on how to best protect ourselves from a biological crisis. We are so socially inept and our social model subsists on such a high degree of superficiality, that we cannot produce the candor … [Read more…]
The media are in an uproar about the crime wave that isn’t. Over the last few months, news report after news report relentlessly tells America that robberies are increasing, indicating a “new wave of crime.” There isn’t a new crime wave, rather the actual “wave” is in societal concern and media reporting these wrongdoings. These … [Read more…]
I learned a lot about myself when writing To Pimp a Nation. The thought of exposing my views to others shaped and refined many of those very views. Cultivating my beliefs for public scrutiny wrangled in a lot of incomplete notions in my mind I felt strongly about; it put them in check. I realized … [Read more…]