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 […]

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 […]

ALL LIVES MATTER — EXCEPT FOR N****** AND MONKEYS

African descendant Mercutio Southall Jr. proved that he owns a set of balls the size of Birmingham, Alabama’s Wells Fargo Tower when he rolled up to a Donald Trump for President rally in the same city a couple of days ago and chanted “Black Lives Matter.” Southall demonstrated something else more important: “All Lives Matter” […]

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON MOVIE THOUGHTS, PART TWO

Part Two: This Movie and Planet Earth Now that I’ve discussed the social backdrop for the Straight Outta Compton movie in my previous post, I want to start this post by giving props to film director F. Gary Gray because Compton was shot and edited well. But of course I have some feedback about the storyline. […]

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON MOVIE THOUGHTS, PART ONE

Part One: Plantation Cultivation and the American Dream Straight out of the 1980s–90s plantation known as Compton, California, and powered in part by President Ronald Reagan’s Narcotics Entrepreneurship and Small Arms Specialist Training Program, better known to the rest you as the Iran-Contra scandal, five young men pushed their way to entertainment stardom and out […]

MICHAEL ROBINSON’S DEATH PENALTY WITHOUT A TRIAL

Guess what happens when you are arrested in Pemiscot County, Missouri, and you’re a diabetic in need of two insulin shots per day to stay alive? The answer simple, in the case of Michael Robinson—you die in jail. Allow me to throw in some disclosure before I move on. I’ve had a social media connection […]

LOOK AT THIS CECIL THE LION STORY AGAIN

Some followers of the Black Lives Matter movement are livid over the general public’s apparent preference in discussing a Zimbabwe lion’s recent death at the hands of an American big game hunter, as opposed to discussing the problem of race in America. My response to the Black Lives Matter movement: don’t you see the 2,000-pound […]

OBAMA’S DESPERATE AGAIN, HE’S TALKING TO CBC ABOUT TPP

(Laughing) You know that President Obama is scraping the bottom of his friendship barrel at this point since he’s now talking to the Congressional Black Caucus about— Wait. That sounds awfully familiar… Anyway, President Obama must be desperate again—he’s talking with the CBC about helping him pass a bill that will give him carte blanche […]

CITY OF FERGUSON DESERVES MAFIA TREATMENT

Over 90 years ago in young America, gangs began to squeeze money out of communities using a mixture of business savvy, intimidation and terrifying brute force. You likely know most of these gangs by another name—the Mafia. There seemed to be no end to the Mafia’s momentum of reign in America, if not for two […]

HUNTED

A Black man’s experience with racist police practices and racial violence Add a new rule to the List of Things a Brother Must Never Do to Avoid Being Profiled as a Criminal or Shot Like Trayvon Martin — don’t do pull ups on building scaffolds after dark. True story … It was past 10 o’clock […]