It seems like not long ago, we were making great strides on television. Remember, The Cosby Show? I use to love the feeling of Thursday nights. It felt like that was OUR night to shine on TV. Back then, we had a couple of all-Black shows on a major network and then they (the networks) gave everybody a show. Those days were short lived, though.
Today, if I want to see more than one Black face in a show, I have (more…)
Maybe it’s me, but everytime I see on the news that a tornado hit another part of rural America, I flash back to seeing my brothers and sisters in New Orleans after Katrina. I know in these natural disasters people have lost (more…)
I just read an email sent through one of those chain emails about how gay students aren’t being accepted on black college campuses. That didn’t seem that strange to me because if college is a microcosm of the real world, I see why. Being gay isn’t (more…)
After paying $59.95+tax to watch the Mayweather-De La Hoya fight this past weekend, I realized that I had been had.
“Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok!”- Malcolm X (1992)
It was a good clean fight, but who pays all that money for just a good clean fight? No biting, no blood, no police, nothing. If I wanted to see all that is good in the sport I will watch (more…)
Why is it that everybody on the block sees the value in cutting their grass except for that one neighbor who happens to live next door to me? I am out there weekly keeping mine cut, trimmed and watered, but my neighbor obviously can’t see it and feels no pressure to cut his.
I live in a black middle class community where people (more…)