"If the times aren’t ripe, you have to ripen the times."
This was the mantra of civil rights leader Dorothy Height who passed on Tuesday evening in hospital at the great age of 98. While Dr. Height was a shining example for women during a time when women were definitely considered second class citizens, the fact [...]
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Loss of a Civil Rights Giant
LifeLock finally exposed
Well a few years ago there was an ad being shown everywhere on TV and on the side of busses and carried around on a truck all over the city with CEO Todd Davis’s social security number. He claimed his company could protect anyone from being a source of identity theft.
Not long after [...]
Buyer Beware!
Buyer Beware!
As of late these two words have never been more relative in my life than they have ever before. I normally consider myself pretty savvy and have a certain amount of street smarts, normally I can see a scam coming a mile away but recently I was snagged in by one of the oldest [...]
What Would The Greats Say About Obama?
As I watched President Obama give his victory speech I found myself wondering what the great literary figures would have thought or said about him.
I could just hear Mark Twain making a joke about ordinary citizens of this declining empire doing an extraordinary thing. Something like even a broken clock is right twice a day, [...]
The Two Americas
Much is written about divisions in the United States. We have differences in our economic status, ethnic backgrounds, and regional lifestyles. The one split that is deeper than all others is the one running between the literate and illiterate. The literate citizens know how to read through all aspects of life, not just books. The [...]
Orwell Would be in Awe
If George Orwell were alive today he would be in awe at how the United States is functioning. Orwell wrote a novel called 1984 that portrays a dystopian society. Orwell was actually trying to warn us, but it seems that the masses of the United States did not listen.
In Orwell’s society phrases mean the opposite [...]
Obama, The Invisible Man
As Barack Obama campaigns, he leaves many to wonder who he is philosophically. Does Obama believe in African Kemetic principles? Or does Obama believe in the United States plantation paradigm? The truth is, no one except Obama and his wife knows, or cares.
The Obama phenomenon has brought the relevance of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man to [...]
