I’m so affected by racists throwing Black marriage statistics at me in my early life that today I notice nearly every Black father I see walking down the street with his child. I’ve even contemplated making a website called “Return of the Black Father,” where people can submit anonymous pictures of Black men fathering. Seeing … [Read more…]
As long-term as the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade will be, the decision itself says a lot about White-male power in America and throughout the world. Birth rates for White people have been declining for several decades and it scares White men to think soon they simply won’t have the number of people … [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…]
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…]
I don’t think America is going to get much benefit from the Bill Cosby release because the subject is so polarizing people close their ears, open their mouths and both sides of the debate go back to their corners declaring their view was “right.” With so much black support for Bill Cosby, much of America … [Read more…]