I just completed my second reading of John A. Williams’ novel Clifford’s Blues — a well-written but far from feel-good story of a black, gay jazz musician imprisoned in Nazi Germany. The book frequently mentions the gruesome medical experiments performed on prisoners by Nazi physicians — which made me think of the 1932–1972 Tuskegee, Alabama syphilis […]
Read More SUNDAY SMACK: DID US GOVERNMENT COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY?My editorial policy for mentalunrest is simple, if not to a fault: write about events, ideas, truths and creators that others don’t see or attempt to neglect. So — I chose not to write about the Star Spangled Banner sit out by Colin Kaepernick. As a person who decided to sit out the National Anthem […]
Read More KAEPERNICK THOUGHTSThis week’s Sunday Smack inspiration comes from reading Eric Foner’s Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, where I was reminded of how the British promised Africans enslaved in America their freedom in return for fighting against George Washington’s patriots during America’s war for independence. That would mean any slave who fought […]
Read More SUNDAY SMACK: TREASON OR SLAVERY?Wu-Tang is Right: “C.R.E.A.M.” Same goes for you and your neighbors. The Institute of New Economic Thinking’s recent and somber research (PDF) proves that money spent on political campaigns b***h-stomps the people’s will almost all the time. INET director Thomas Ferguson, along with researchers Paul Jorgensen and Jie Chen, examined more than three decades of […]
Read More THIS STUDY PROVES BIG MONEY WINS DAMN-NEAR ALL ELECTIONSThis past week has presented a compelling case for even presidential candidate Donald Trump to turn down his ego for a moment to acknowledge that he’s having a rough time. Aside from his dramatically sliding poll numbers against opponent Hillary Clinton that warrant a separate discussion, the mainstream media has now replaced their “His damn […]
Read More THE GAME OF ‘OPERATION GET TRUMP’About 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 TRENDS
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