As happy as I am that I’ve witnessed the election of a Black president, the struggle is FAR from being over! My primary concern and fear is that the number of people who were finally energized to actually go out and vote, will feel like their job is done and they can become complacent. […]
POLITICS/SOCIETY
“ROSA SAT, SO MARTIN COULD WALK, MARTIN WALKED SO OBAMA COULD RUN, OBAMA [WON] SO OUR CHILDREN COULD FLY!”—Daily Kos
I don’t know who originated this quote but it has made the rounds both before and after the election. What does it really mean and is there any truth to it?
The quote argues […]
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 […]
“All the white people she has ever met needed, in one way or another, to be reassured, consoled, to have their consciences priced but not blasted; could not, could not afford to hear a truth which would shatter, irrevocably, their image of themselves. It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a […]
The election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States represents a major, attitudinal shift in America with regard to race. Bigotry and racism are still alive in our nation (on both the individual and institutional levels), but Obama’s victory proves that most Americans want to move past the divisive and oppressive […]
As I casually strolled across the dingy city playing field on a brisk Sunday afternoon, the winds began to whip through my jacket and the words “watch your step” scrolled across my mind as I carefully navigated through the debris that is a part of many urban ball fields. Broken glass, geese droppings, etc. […]
When I was a little girl growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, every Sunday my mother would transform me from an ashy-legged, nappy-headed tomboy into a Sunday morning debutante. She’d press and curl my hair, dress me up in the obligatory uniform—starched dress, anklets and black patent leather Mary Jane shoes so I could watch […]
“He need his ass beat.”
That’s the first thing I thought when I saw the video recently of a man punching a girl in a South L.A. McDonald’s.
A teenaged girl, who posed absolutely no physical threat to a grown man, laid out flat … as if in a boxing ring.
No dialog can be heard […]
“Damn, not again,” I silently thought to myself as I watched this young black boy approach my truck with a can in his hand while stopped at a red light on my way home from work. Now, I know what you’re thinking. Times are hard these days and it’s sad for this child […]
So I was sitting at my desk minding my own business like I normally do (although I “observe” the goings on around me) and found myself in the middle of a very intriguing conversation I want to further explore with you.
The conversation was between a black heterosexual man and a black homosexual man about black […]