Just three months into his presidency, President Barack Obama found himself face to face with the developing H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic. He declared it a Public Health Emergency just six weeks before the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic. After this declaration President Obama declared a National Emergency and the full strength … [Read more…]
Being that our forefathers created Democracy solely for the benefit of white males, it’s a miracle that other groups made gains within this near extinct political system. When America’s founders created our founding documents, in their minds it was an axiomatic reality that white males were put on Earth to rule everyone else, including white … [Read more…]
Trump voters have a good argument for his reelection. His economy is on fire and anyone denying this is being disingenuous at best. Although Donald Trump’s stock market has never grown at a greater rate than Obama’s, its growth is impressive. Given that Obama started off with an economy depressed by Bush II’s Great Recession, … [Read more…]
Warning: I will speak in broad generalizations so don’t bother reading any further if words like “black people” raise your defenses and bring your comprehension to a halt. Of course everyone is different and you can always find exceptions to any general rule. That shouldn’t however, diminish our capacity to observe general trends and understand … [Read more…]
A few days after my tow hearing, I received a letter from Seleta Reynolds, General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, in response to a correspondence I sent earlier asking her, the head of DOT, to put in writing what the DOT uses to determine what a school day was. Her letter stated … [Read more…]
Part 4 Since I had returned to the United States I had been fighting DOT to get a hearing on the ticket itself. Calling the LADOT the Los Angeles DEAF Office of Transportation was accurate. When I initially contested the ticket, I wrote a statement in bold letters and on a separate piece of paper … [Read more…]
Today was the tow hearing. After working a 15 hour day, I got home the night before and prepared a line of questioning for the Parking Enforcement Officer (PEO) that would do one of two things; either show that there’s no working universal standard of what a “school day” is or help me to be … [Read more…]
Part 2 Now that the City of Los Angeles has thoroughly entangled nearly $500 of my labor in its pimp trap, I began my mission to get it back. The whole purpose of the street regulation they used to impound my car is to keep space clear for school busses to drop off and pick … [Read more…]
(Part 1) To Pimp a Nation reveals how America uses the same methods as pimps to control and profit from their subjects. However, America’s methods are so sophisticated that the average citizen doesn’t notice. This became apparent to me when I went from the hood life to the good life and made efforts to live a … [Read more…]
The Electoral College debate is another political football used to divide our nation and preoccupy us while The Man (a name I use in To Pimp a Nation to designate America’s oppressive forces) continues to steal the fruits of our productivity. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted her support for abolishing the Electoral College and it confuses me … [Read more…]