TAMIR RICE — A LOSER COP’S DREAM COME TRUE

He was called “Distracted” in a personnel assessment file. “Weepy.” “Could not follow simple directions.” Cannot “Communicate clear thoughts nor recollections.” The “Weepy” person is Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann, pictured above, who recently avoided a grand jury indictment for the shooting death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year old African descendant. Loehmann’s partner, Officer Frank […]

SUNDAY SMACK: WOULD MLK BE PUT ON THE NO-FLY LIST IN 2015?

Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday approaches, and the fallen leader is the subject of this week’s Sunday Smack. King used to be a close friend of the White House — until he moved beyond lunch counter integration issues to fight poverty and America’s conduct in the Vietnam War. The interrelation between the US government’s attitude […]

WAR ON CHRISTMAS GAME REVISITED

Some of you still think there’s a war on Christmas. I mean, didn’t Fox News — facetiously or otherwise — declare victory, and presumably an end to all hostilities? In case you need more assurance, here’s some good news: Donald Trump — assuming you can wait this long — promised to win The War if […]

THE INJUSTICE OF A DREAM — THE CLARENCE MOSES-EL STORY

My head is spinning here — since when can a person be convicted and jailed for rape because the victim pointed out the alleged attacker in a dream? No other evidence. No witnesses. Just a dream. The 28-year imprisonment of Denver, Colorado resident Clarence Moses-El through clairvoyance screams predatory imprisonment. The rest of this story […]

SUNDAY SMACK: BLACK MEN CAN’T DREIDEL?

Self identification is necessary to add proper context to this Sunday Smack — I’m an African descendant non-Jew who recently attended a Chanukah event. The video you see below is a product of my attempt to shoot a spinning dreidel with a holiday choir singing in the background. The challenge I faced was holding my […]

DREAM CHASIN’ AND PARTY TRIPPIN’ — HOW YOU CREATED ‘TRUMP 2016’

As I looked at last night’s Party of No Brains debate, I recalled my prediction of Donald Trump’s strong shot at being that party’s nominee — even before his first candidate debate. Back then, I made parallels between the cultural pessimism Americans faced during the late 70’s — which catalyzed the election of Ronald Reagan […]

SUNDAY SMACK: MUSLIMS AND GUNS

38 percent of Americans believe Islam encourages more violence than other religions according to a recent CBS poll. The same poll says 29 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Islam. A Brookings poll says 61 percent of Americans view Islam unfavorably. The aftermath of the Paris and San Bernardino mass shootings — both […]

WHAT IN THE HELL DOES THE SAN BERNADINO SHOOTING HAS TO DO WITH FREEDOM?

It’s worse than beverage companies telling you how much they care for your health but then obscure the danger of super sized sodas — while telling you that drinking proximate death in a 36-ounce cup is a benefit of your “freedom” is an American. Worse than the time Big Tobacco denied that cigarette smoking can kill you. Yes, […]

HOW AND WHY AMERICA SUPPORTS TERRORISTS LIKE ROBERT LEWIS DEAR

Let’s assume, if only for a moment, America is correct in its desire to avoid calling Robert Lewis Dear’s Denver Planned Parenthood shooting rampage last Friday an act of fundamentalist right-wing Christian terrorism. Even though I’m not aware of any atheist Pan-African left-wing separatists populating the threat matrix of people who want to destroy Colorado […]

LAQUAN MCDONALD’S DEATH SAYS CHICAGO IS RUN BY MANY ‘BAD APPLES’

Two themes have converged to make Laquan McDonald’s apparent murder by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke a cloudy discussion — Laquan’s Black skin color and the public discussion points that relegated Van Dyke’s behavior to the act of one “bad apple” out of a crop of good cops. I’m probably one of the last […]