Archive for the ‘civil rights’ Category

• At what age can you expect respect

  Saturday, May 29th, 2010

  CNN reported on a Pennsylvania lady who at 103, is still driving. To make it even better it’s a Cadillac and it’s one of those old land yachts we remember as kids. But boy is it well kept. This distinguished, well dressed, Black woman was shown getting in her car, dressed to the nines [...]

• Political correctness a step to far

  Friday, January 15th, 2010

  I am in my sixth decade of life so I have been Black for a very long time. I remember sitting in the back of the bus. I have seen and experienced a lot of things where it comes to race. But I think sometimes political correctness can go a little crazy [...]

• You are under arrest

  Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

  I have written about the wrongdoing of those people in uniform that are supposed to protect and serve us, the citizens that pay their salaries. Lately they have not looked like people of character or people with professional ethics.
   
  The latest case is beyond stupid. World Renowned African American Professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. [...]

• Oh no he didn’t!

  Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

  The good ole boys of the GOP party have not learned anything since being beaten in the last election.
   
  Case in point:
   
  South Carolina’s Republican activist Rusty DePass made the statement that a gorilla that had escaped from the zoo was probably an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama!
   
  He only made a puny [...]

• Racism Alive and Well in 2009

  Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

  If there is anyone who thought that because we have a black president we should lock arms and sing Cum By Ya, well get this straight. Racism is alive and well rearing its ugly head at a moments notice. Once drug out to the light of public notice, it will slink back hoping to not [...]