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Biting commentary on the news of the day fom an urban African American male's perpective. Always working, always honest, and never selling out.
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If a child falls in the hood and no one cares to hear about it....
..should we make a sound? Of course we should. We owe our children that much.As my man Reggie Warrington [Dave Chappelle] told Buddy Love [Eddie Murphy] in the Nutty Professor; "it's time to attack black."So here we go again. It seems like every now...
Obama, don't you have little poor and inner city kids you could be talking to? Your speech should be on BET and TV One, nowhere else.
*Is that tire marks I see on Van Jone's back? I know I know, no one in the White House asked him step down, he just didn't want to be a distraction from the president's agenda. Yeah right. Anyway, I am not writing about that tonight. It's a victory f...
"No Excuses"
I just caught his O ness doing his thing at the NAACP gathering in New York, (I wonder how many more of those will be coming here in A-merry-ca? Happy 100th B-Day NAACP. Now if you could just become relevant again. Digression alert!)and I must say th...
Promoting away an education.
"The pressure to pass students - even those who rarely go to class or can't read - is pervasive in the Philadelphia School District, teachers around the city say. The push comes in memos, in meetings, and in talks about failure rates that are too hig...
