reparations

March 19, 2021

The Donkey And The Elephant (Revised)

In the most basic sense black people in America have always viewed white people as either the holders of power over them or as members of […]
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

Message To The Hip Hop Nation (Revised)

 Rap music is here to stay! To be sure, a frightening thought to many, yet music to the ears of many more. This duality has 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 18, 2021

Where’s My Check?

Part and parcel of the modern day reparations debate is the notion of cash payments to every African American should monetary reparations materialize. Not only would […]
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 […]
February 1, 2008

Black History Month

Black History Month, like many other attempts to affirm African Americans, will soon fall to the wayside of non‑necessity. Not because it’s no longer relevant or […]