Not sure how this didn’t hit my radar earlier but Tim Fielder, creator of Matty’s Rocket and a prominent cartoonist of Afrofuturism imagery, teamed up with his twin brother Jim to visit Cleveland and Philadelphia to ink and shoot their observations of the respective Republican and Democratic conventions — as told by everyday people. The […]
Read More MATTY’S ROCKET COMIC CREATOR TAKES ON POLITICAL PARTY CONVENTIONSThe public fell for the ol’ major party misdirection play again. And the press, along with that play-making major party, fell for another Trump card. Somehow, emphasis on the Wikileaks-produced Democratic National Committee versus Bernie Sanders email dump quickly shifted to the phantom argument about a Russian conspiracy, instead of focusing on the damning email content itself which […]
Read More DNC TRIES TO FOOL PUBLIC BUT TRUMP FOOLED EVERYONEWikileaks’ Friday dump of nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee emails — courtesy of non-Russian hacker Guccifer 2.0 — shows more than a shamelessly corrupt political organization who erected an unscalable partition to block Bernie Sanders’ nomination bid in favor of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The leak also shows how the DNC controls media content in a blatant lack of […]
Read More WIKILEAKS SHOWS HOW DNC ISN’T ONE BIT DEMOCRATICAbout 30 minutes ago, I had a chance to read a draft of Donald Trump’s speech he’s supposed to make tonight when he accepts the Party of No Brains’ nomination for President. If you felt comfortable with saying Melania Trump Rock and Rolled Michelle Obama’s speech earlier this week, you’ll likely think that Donald Trump […]
Read More QUICK THOUGHTS ON TRUMP’S DRAFT RNC SPEECH TONIGHTUpdate (23:15): Ideological Ho, Anyone? The scramble to piece together Gavin Long’s beliefs are important in the way they can form a picture of motivation, intent and networks. While not confirmed, I’m now hearing that Gavin Long claimed to be down with the Nation of Islam in the past. I’m sure we’ll hear plenty of […]
Read More DEVELOPING: 3 COPS DEAD IN BATON ROUGE, LAI’ve been asked for my recommendations regarding police reform so that we won’t have to see African descendants like Alton Sterling and Philando Castile get killed after interactions with police officers. I can rattle off plenty of recommendations, but they’re all tempered by a piece I wrote on November 26, 2014 titled “AFTER FERGUSON: […]
Read More POLICE REFORM ALONE WON’T SAVE BLACK LIVESYou hear this statement often after a mass shooting: “If those victims had guns, the shooter would’ve been stopped.” We heard a similar statement after the Orlando mass shooting in The Pulse nightclub. But do you know what sounds just as silly as “If those partygoers in Orlando had guns, Omar Mateen wouldn’t have killed […]
Read More FREE-FLOWING THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ‘GUNS EVERYWHERE’ ARGUMENTIf the sheer number of cases, studies, and high-definition extrajudicial killings can’t sway some to believe that “All Lives Matter” is too FOS to accept even a drop of social justice, let’s look at a source many of you rely on every day: Google. I used Google Trends to track online mentions of the phrases “Black Lives Matter” […]
Read More MORE PROOF “ALL LIVES MATTER” FOLKS ARE FOS — CHECK GOOGLE TRENDSHow offended, terrified, or angry would you become if I said “Dogs’ Lives Matter” and supported a movement around that brand? You’d likely answer “Not at all” because your cognition permits you to reason that focusing on due respect for dogs and their well-being doesn’t even remotely suggest a hatred for humans, or any other […]
Read More WHY “ALL LIVES MATTER” FOLKS ARE FOSThis week’s Sunday Smack concerns a personal friend of mine, who’s worked as an Uber driver in a major US city for the past two years. My friend, let’s call him Rhino for this post, is an African descendant and dresses for work in a conservative suit and a fedora each day. He has a customer base that […]
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