Before We Begin It would be uncool of me if I did not confess up front that this list is not entirely fair. Making a blunt statement that a movie was responsible for the misplaced focus and misdirected energy of an entire nation of people sounds like barbershop and backyard bar-b-que talk more…

Warning: There is some adult language in this piece and some colorful analogies are drawn. I am not gratuitous with it, but the point needs to be made. At this stage of the game I had no choice. …

I am not fool enough to expect many people to be swayed by this editorial, but there may be a few. So this is for that few. We have been living in a post-persuasion country for at least seven years now, and some would argue it has been even longer…

THEY SAID WE WERE THUGS; AND WE BELIEVED THEM If you’re reading me, you probably remember when urban youth in the Bronx and Queens invented hip-hop culture. And if you are too young to remember it, I’m willing to bet you’ve heard about it. …

And so is America — I DON’T FUCK WITH JOE ROGAN; BUT I DON’T FAULT HIM EITHER It is nowhere in my nature to take up for a guy like Joe Rogan. And as harmful as his influence is, the runaway popularity of his mindless mass media presence is not his fault. This is so…

Michael Jackson Tried To Warn Us — MICHAEL JACKSON KNEW THAT ‘PRETENDERS’ WERE FAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN ‘PROUD BOYS’ Michael Jackson, as both a corporate titan and a pop-culture icon, tried desperately to warn Black folks about this bullshit way back in ’95. He saw in a way that most of us couldn’t that White guys in…

Obnoxious, loudmouthed, Tik-Tok talking-head ‘conservative’ congressman Madison Cawthorn just got his ass spanked red in the Republican primary in North Carolina. …

Black people have struggled with colorism for a long time. — (Not) Breaking News: Black people have struggled with colorism for a long, long, long time. As a matter of fact, our struggle with colorism predates our identity as ‘Black’ , ‘colored,’ or ‘Negro’ (whether capitalized or not). Colorism emerged when our foremothers started delivering babies planted in them by their…

Our political enemies are going to suffer for what they are doing. But that reality will be of absolutely no comfort to anyone who is bemoaning the truly insane legislation coming out of state houses all over America in anticipation of the overturning of Roe verses Wade. And it should…