American History

March 17, 2021

The Antidote

It’s common knowledge that when someone suffers a poisonous snake bite the antidote to that poison is oftentimes another poison: one that neutralizes the first poison, […]
March 13, 2021

The 3 Card Monte Of Death And Deception For Blacks In America

Among the many random or arbitrary instances where black people are killed in America the top three reasons during the last 150 years that have gotten […]
February 21, 2021

Our Birthright Of Wealth (An Open Letter To All Black Americans) (Revised)

                       “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old  problems from a new angle requires creative imagination.”         – Albert Einstein                                              Forty Acres And […]
February 21, 2021

Greatness & Richness Deferred (America’s Saddest Loss)

Each time that white America excluded African Americans they held themselves back ten‑fold. Ample support for this analysis is found everywhere, but not so glaring as […]
February 20, 2021

The Poverty Industry

Like the prison industry in America African Americans make up a sizable component of the poverty industry. What is the poverty industry? It’s the workforce of […]
February 18, 2021

Jim Crow Beverage

 Many of us have no idea how close the newly freed slaves were to their (our) birthright and equal participation in charting the course of America.  […]
April 17, 2008

The Race Card

 In America, as I’m sure in most other societies, there exist “code words” and phrases that carry with them very potent emotional content and/or specific political […]
March 18, 2008

The White Man’s Education

I don’t quite remember when I first heard the phrase or the young black kid who I last heard utter it, but I do remember the […]
March 18, 2007

Double Negative

 Throughout our history in America it’s been relatively easy to convey our pain and disillusion or chronicle precisely the sojourn we’ve endured as slaves and oppressed […]