“I Love Lucy”, “Gunsmoke”, “Laugh In”, “All in the Family”, “Dallas”, “Dynasty”, “The Cosby Show”, “Seinfeld”, “Everybody Loves Raymond.” This is just a partial list of television shows that dominated the ratings and defined greatness. If you watched television (shame on you “elitists” who don’t) when these programs came on, you made it your […]
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I’ve been watching the Bush to Obama transition of power with a fairly close eye. I believe it has been one conducted in the spirit of progress and commitment to solving the issues that plague us, “the real Americans.”
Yet, there is one thing about this selection process that I just can’t get […]
Sometimes when you are in the midst of watching an historic event unfold, you don’t know what or how to feel. Such was the case for me as I watched the culmination of what was nothing short of miraculous: an African-American male became the 44th President of the United States.
As the build […]
Exhale. . . ah.
President Obama. I can’t stop saying the name. “Yes We Can!” I’m reminded of Negro spirituals (“We Shall Overcome”, “I Wanna Be Ready”, “Ain’t That Good News”) and Stevie Wonder songs (“Overjoyed”, “For Once In My Life”, “We Can Work It Out”, “Higher Ground”). These are not […]
The question has been out there for months. What will people watch when the election is over? Before I answer that question for myself, let me offer a suggestion to the Obama transition team. With all of the grim economic developments, consider creating a government rehab facility for those who have become addicted […]
I know I’m on the late freight, everybody and their mother has weighed in on this historic election, but nonetheless, I couldn’t let this moment pass by without adding my ten cents (in this economy two cents ain’t worth what it used to be).
Lincoln once said, “Victory has many fathers.” Had he not […]
I was in a state of euphoria following Barack Obama’s election victory, as was the rest of the world, when I got a disturbing email.
It was meant to be funny, but if those jokes came out of the mind of a white person, it would’ve been inappropriate, insensitive and racist, to say the least.
What […]
So there I was, standing at the very center of the Obama celebratory hurricane at a club called Sugar Hill in Atlanta’s Underground. A couple of friends and I were crowded around a table, drinking cold light beer, talking about the electoral math, and watching Wolf Blitzer on a 300ft projection screen, along with […]
Yesterday morning millions of Americans, especially African Americans woke up feeling like they landed in wonderland. Barack Hussein Obama has become president-elect of the United States of America. Imagine that… A black man is President of a country still considered by most to be the most important nation on earth. Amazing!!!
But what does […]
OBAMA WINS!! Somebody Stop Me
November 4th, 2008 at 8 pm Eastern Standard Time Sen. Barack Obama took the lead in the Electoral College and never looked back. With a “righteous wind at his back” Sen. Obama won The Presidency of the United States in a landslide victory and made history. There were tears and […]