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 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 […]
Read More SUNDAY SMACK: BLACK UBER CAR DRAMA?Frequent visitors to mentalunrest would not be surprised by my thoughts on the House Select Committee’s report on the 2012 Benghazi, Libya attacks that left US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead. For you newbies, I think the report’s findings are a joke. Check the following links to get a sense of where I’m coming from: Benghazi […]
Read More THE ALMOST LAUGHABLY IMPOTENT BENGHAZI REPORTIt harms the spirit to think that the 2016 presidential election has distilled our collective vision to a choice between a war hawk who will assuredly leave a trail of Black and Brown limp bodies — as well as a few white Slavic ones — across four continents, and another candidate where there’s a widely-held […]
Read More WELCOME TO 2016 — WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO COUNT THE BODIES?Losing Bernie Worrell to cancer last Thursday is indeed a sad event, but unlike Prince’s departure, we were given a heads-up that Worrell’s earthly end was near. What makes me equally sad is the vast number of people who don’t know who Bernie Worrell was, and his influence on music. Think about Alexander Pushkin’s enormous […]
Read More BERNIE WORRELL AND THE BEAUTIFUL AFRICAN AESTHETIC
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