The City of Rochester failed Daniel Prude and allowed predator cops to fail harder

Bank robbers and mental health patients receive the same police solutions: violence. Daniel Prude’s 157-days old death at the hands of Rochester police officers, and the subsequent overdue and — for the moment — relatively lenient suspensions given to the cops involved, make me think about another way cities continue to set up Black folks […]

Why did President Trump tell Americans to vote by mail, and in person?

If your chances of winning are slim, cause chaos to even the odds — my guess. I can only see two reasons for President Donald Trump suggesting that people mail in their votes and then vote in person. I’ll get to those later. While I’m not fully confident in polls, they show that Trump will […]

The second half of 2020 feels like an Avengers movie

And the story will not end by 2021. I feel like we’re fighting Thanos. End Game style. Round one found much of the team far away from thinking we need to fight as a unit to save the planet. For this battle, we established a fragile coalition of cobalts, turquoises, royals, tiffanys and midnights, and […]

To avoid a ‘small group’ writing the GOP platform, a small group decided no platform is needed

Fake-Christian death cults tend to do this sort of thing — for the good of the people, of course. Remember when I rapped about the Republican Party’s transformation to a fake-Christian death cult? Meet the party’s triple-down commitment on that bet: There will be no GOP platform this year. Instead, and with no hint of […]

This moment, Kamala Harris, and women all over

It’s not lost on us that a woman has been summoned to face the biggest MAN-MADE, modern-day threat to PUBLIC HEALTH AND democracy. I’m thinking about a very smart woman I know who works in the restaurant industry, and is so intelligent that she has to appear dumb among her bosses and colleagues to keep […]

The Republican Party has become a fake-Christian death cult

and Donald Trump is its current leader. Government policies enable citizens to either live better, or die sooner — a reality that is hidden by the mist of feverish political debates on television and social media. Your response to this reality shows the world what your moral wiring looks like. Poverty in America means people […]

Passionate-lover-of-God Rep. Ted Yoho showed he picks ‘passion’ over his God when he called AOC a ‘Fkg B*tch’

We know the Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL 03) story by now — he called Rep Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY 14) a “Fucking bitch” over her thoughts about the connection between poverty and crime, subsequently offered a non-apology of an apology to Rep. AOC. And then AOC’s provided an elegant response to that non-apology. But here’s what […]

2020 Coronavirus pandemic — a reminder that we’ve been here before

America has downplayed pandemics and rebelled against safety precautions in the past. With the current coronavirus global death toll of 634,000 and no American-citizen-driven research in their country’s experience with pandemics, some are surprised to learn that a pandemic where American government leaders downplayed a virus’ dangers, recklessly encouraged mass gatherings, falsely declared a deadly […]

Shaun King — tear down White Jesus? Whachu saying?

White Supremacy in religion has a long history — but let White church folks keep their White Jesus portraits. Now, how you gonna get a European White Jesus in Palestine? You can’t get that! But with White theologians, you can get almost anything out of Jesus. Dr. James Cone, in conversation at Trinity Church in […]

Running for his life — Rayshard Brooks and the dead prison system that couldn’t save him

Why do we continue to spend money on prisons that cannot produce better results? There’s so much to unpack, given the Atlanta cop arrests for the murder of Rayshard Brooks, additional book-selling drama by war pig John Bolton, so-called police reform, coronavirus shiggity by President Trump and friends … And I’ll cover them all between […]