Since when did Bob Costas become the voice of Black athletes or the Black community? It is maddeningly patronizing that the Big Business media continue to ask sportscaster Bob Costas to be the interpreter for Black professional athletes and the Black community. What qualifies him to be an authority on the NFL anthem protest, Colin…
Category: Human Rights
NFL protests: Trump, Pence, Jerry Jones, Roger Goodell, ESPN aint our Daddy
Vice president Pence, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, ESPN, President Trump, NFL Commissioner, corporate America and the .1 percent are all ganging up on a handful of Black professional athletes and a sports personality. Why? Because the power structure knows its history, they know that dissent has a way of catching fire and it already…
Puerto Rico suffers and Trump throws paper towels, insults, receipts for repairs
The people of Puerto Rico are staring into the face of a mounting humanitarian crisis but the president of the United States response has been to remind them of the cost of doing what it the US is obliged to do, while throwing racially coded insults and paper towels. Can anybody imagine the reaction…
Soooo.. Puerto Ricans aren’t citizens, human beings, Brothers and Sisters?
Most thinking people know either subconsciously, or consciously why the US has been slow to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands brought on by Hurricane Maria. It is because the islanders aren’t considered Americans (despite their US citizenship), they aren’t White and they are broke! According to reports…
NFL Sunday: Hail to the Sons of B’s
While the GREAT DISTRACTOR President Donald Trump called the mothers of NFL players, “sons of B—s,” who dared exercise their right to freedom of expression and have kneeled to protest police violence and racism in this country, he may have just galvanized those who want to live in a just US. The NFL players protest…
St.Louis killer cop partly right, he is only partly to blame
The former St Louis cop Jason Stockley who cold bloodedly killed Anthony Lamar Smith in December of 2011 and was subsequently absolved of his crime by St Louis’ jurisprudence had the unmitigated gall, the temerity, the nerve to say,” everyone wants someone to blame, but I’m just not the guy.” These are the words of…
Earthquakes, floods and storms of Biblical proportions: is the end near?
Recent events including the solar eclipse, Hurricanes Irma and Harvey and the Mexican earthquake have awakened the superstitions in us all. But though some events in nature can’t be explained, or anticipated much of what is happening in the world can be explained. The weather should, if nothing else humble us. The Native Americans are…
Charlottesville, immigration ban, Houston working class response reason for optimism
Despite the craziness coming out of the US White House and lack of REAL representation by the US Congress there is reason for optimism that yes we can work and live together. Everyday folks have come together in Houston in ways that should not be surprising to us because human beings have that…
REAL looting/ criminality brought us Hurricane Harvey
Human compassion, empathy and neighborliness are on full display in Houston as result of the flooding delivered by Hurricane Harvey, but the same can’t be said for those in the White House and the other corporate and Big Business looters who have knowingly robbed us of a safe environment and climate for the sake of…
Dick Gregory was a man for all seasons
Whenever I think of Dick Gregory I was always think of him telling the joke, in which he said he was at a segregated restaurant in the South and ordered chicken. He said some White men surrounded him and said, “boy whatever you do to that chicken we are going to do to you,” so…
American Exceptionalism indeed: “Not who we are,” No this is UNEQUIVOCALLY the USA
Observing Van Jones cry on CNN, twitter posts of #thisisnotus and other well -meaning folks cry and wring their hands, because the president has exposed the real US, is an indication of self- deception. Jones and folks who share his affinities had convinced themselves that this is not a racist nation. Yet the…
Charlotteville racists: amateurs compared to the US government
Despite all the noise coming from the Charlottesville assortment of racist lunatics, it is important to recognize that they don’t have “real” power. We should pay even more attention to the folks with REAL power, the power structure that was able to force President Donald Trump to do something he didn’t want to do, and…
