Love it or not, accept it or reject it, America as I see it is still divided by race. Luckily I’m fully aware that being black automatically makes me a suspect 10 times a white young male. Well, I’m observing and writing on the racial issues, meanwhile, this has been on my mind and I [...]
working Cotton Fields [Poetry]
August 7th, 2009 View Comments
Black meet White: lesson from Harvard Prof. and Cambridge Cop
July 29th, 2009 View Comments
I was pulled over by a cop today for running a stop sign. I ended with a $25 ticket for not putting on a seat belt — lesson learned? The cop was black. For this week and past the news of Prof. Gates from Harvard has been over the news and I mentioned it briefly. [...]
Where is the race?
July 24th, 2009 View Comments
I grew up seeing everyone as colorless. Maybe it’s because I grew up where we all had the same skin color and who really caredif yours was slightly different. Wait, I actually had various other colors — whites, mulatto’s, Asians, and some other race living and working life in Nigeria. I particularly remembered this white [...]
from an ABP (Average Black Person)
June 30th, 2009 View Comments
The president is black, so? He is a unicorn amongst blacks. Well, at least that’s how he is portrayed by you, or me, or the media. If makes me sense sly racism. I wonder, if the president was white would any care as much, "hey, that the first!". And of course, most black folks ae jumping [...]