After going through a series of comments I was making with some fellow black bloggers with whom I respect the opinions of I thought about the content of the discussion and decided to post my feelings on the matter. The post which we were all typing away on was called “Yuk it up Mr [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 28, 2008
What Kind Of Vegetable Is A Bacon Bit?
The first day I set foot in this Midwestern city I’m now living in I had the awful encounter with the eating habits of a couple of ladies from my black community. I was hoping that this was not the norm but just a couple of ladies in the severe minority who just had [...]
January 24, 2008
Breaking Bad
It never fails that when the television or movies which have a black drug dealer he usually is dealing in crack and is portrayed as the scum of the earth. Of course I am not here to argue that they are anything different. I watch a new show called “Breaking Bad” which [...]
January 18, 2008
Life Wasted
This type of thing pisses me off worse than racist people and that is saying a lot. A man walks on a freeway overpass in Hawaii and throws a two and a half year old toddler off thirty feet down. The boy was struck by one or two cars and was pronounced dead [...]
January 18, 2008
Dumbing Down Education
I was reading an opinion piece on the Yahoo website when I ran across an opinion piece titled “Dumbing down higher education.” It starts off talking about how not only are some people going to the polls to pick a candidate but they are going to vote on ending racial preference. My first [...]
January 16, 2008
The Flip Side Of Racism
Sometimes I feel that talking with people about race is almost pointless. The problem I find is that people are so entrenched in this thinking that there is no problem and that black people are just complainers. A person actually said that “Whites have gone out of their way (granted, I know [...]
January 14, 2008
Profiling Child Sex Trade Perpetrators
Sexual predators from America are traveling to South East Asia to take part in a sex trade. The problem with this sex trade is that the prostitutes are young boys and girls some as young as five. I was watching as MSNBC did an undercover show on this subject. And I am [...]
January 10, 2008
Unemployment Numbers Gone Wild
The news was touting the new unemployment figures for which they reported was at about 5%. Which they then said was still a historical low. Yet can we really trust these numbers? We know that the fortune 500 companies like to “cook” the books so to speak but what about the government [...]