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Don’t Believe the Mortgage Settlement Hype

Don’t Believe the Mortgage Settlement Hype

The so-called government inspired mortgage settlement is a cruel joke on American homeowners and bank depositors!

Political Tricks on Black Voters

Divide and conquer is one of the oldest tricks in the political book! Do you think it is by design or coincidence when a Black political incumbent has a white opponent that another African American inevitably jumps into the race?

The Echoes of Slavery Still Reverberates

The Echoes of Slavery Still Reverberates

Perhaps you are unaware of a confrontational road sign, “Chain Gang Road,” that is prominently displayed in Sasser, Gerogia. When I first saw that sign, a tsunami of feelings erupted within me as I could not believe that governmental officials or citizens would want to resurrect a powerful and shameful imagery that symbolically meant racial oppression and atrocities rendered to convict laborers who were primarily southern African-American men!

Same Black Candidates, Same Losers

Same Black Candidates, Same Losers

It’s 2012, another election year, and every Black community in America has candidates that always run for office and those same candidates always lose!

Devilfish Attacks Black Prep School

Devilfish Attacks Black Prep School

A Devilfish is a creature that buries itself in the mud and sand on the floors of some seas. When a fish swims nearby that the Devilfish doesn’t like, the Devilfish exposes it’s venomous spine and poisons everything around it.

A Wing and A Prayer

A Wing and A Prayer

Back in Slavery Days, there were hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of brave Black men and women that resisted the exploitation, the abuse and the oppression of wicked slave masters.

The Angry Black Woman

The Angry Black Woman

African Americans face a number of serious problems. Joblessness, poor educations, poor housing, political exploitation, social degradation, crime and poverty are some of the concerns of Black citizens in the United States.

Martin Luther King Was A Convict

Martin Luther King Was A Convict

The barbeque smoke permeated the Black community air on Martin Luther King’s birth date in 2012. Some people golfed, some were boating and many people participated in symbolic marches where they locked arms on one side with closet Klansmen and on the other side with neo-Nazis and walked a couple of blocks singing “We Shall Overcome”!

Thank God for Michelle Obama

Thank God for Michelle Obama

Sometimes President Barack Obama seems to have eyes but cannot see. Fortunately, God blessed him with a wife that would watch his back! There are some very different things going on in the Obama reelection campaign compared to what happened on the 2008 campaign trail for the President. Most notably, many of 2008 campaign workers won’t be around in 2012.

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