Archive for the ‘Hate’ Category
So you all know that I’m a hater of Drake (here’s a partial explanation offered by Marc Lamont Hill), nothing […]
Arizona: For Whites Only?
May 17, 2010 · 5 Comments
Recently, I penned a piece discussing the need for Black folks to join in with the fight against Arizona’s racist immigration […]
Yesterday the NYTimes ran an interesting Op-Ed piece on Charter Schools by Charles Murray entitled, “Why Charter Schools Fail the Test.” I read through it quickly and thought it to be arguing two main things: standardized tests were weak measures and that school choice was a democratic right. Sounds agreeable, right? But why was this written by Charles Murray author of the thinly veiled racist polemic The Bell Curve?
Black and Brown Unite to Fight SB 1070
April 30, 2010 · 3 Comments
The term racial profiling has been part of my vocabulary and reality for nearly 15 years now, but it shouldn’t […]
Silencing Sexual Assault
April 19, 2010 · 8 Comments
Originally published at The Atlanta Post The internet is a funny thing and Twitter is a funny place. I find […]
The Hope Against Hate
March 31, 2010 · 1 Comment
On Monday night, Tavis Smiley’s convening “We Count! The Black Agenda is the American Agenda” aired on CSpan. What? You […]
Christopher Rios … The Big Punisher
February 7, 2010 · 6 Comments
This morning I woke to #RIPBIGPUN as a trending topic on twitter and was conflicted about bigging up Pun. Pun […]
Negro Please! The Census & 3 things to care about
January 7, 2010 · 30 Comments
And one of them is not the use of the word Negro which has BEEN appearing, including on the 2000 […]
Where did you place your faith?
January 3, 2010 · 17 Comments
This is my reflection on Imani: Faith… Faith is often thought of in a religious and spiritual way. Having grown […]
This post will not be a lofty tribute to Brother Malcolm, if you would like to see one like that, check it out here. This will be a call to action, because that is one of the things El Hajj Malik El Shabazz was about. Today is a National Day of Action to Stop the Execution of Troy Davis and today I saw a heinous video of a young teenager brutalized by the Police of Toledo. I do not doubt that Malcolm would have been disturbed to action by both. Let’s honor him by doing the work!
