by Reneegede | Sep 30, 2016 | Opinion
Today, we pay homage to a young man in Midland, Texas, whose right mind has told him that he has a right to be who he is and protest a dead and dying nation for all of its most egregious and manifold sins against humanity, both here and the world over. This is...
by Reneegede | Sep 29, 2016 | Opinion
Find your tribe, a long-standing friend of mine said very recently. As a recovering people addict and bonafide member of Co-Dependents Anonymous, finding a “tribe” is hard to do when you’ve spent years developing the art of isolation in order to stay...
by Reneegede | Sep 28, 2016 | Opinion
Word of the day is “jigging.” *** It means carrying on with your life in such a manner that the lines are blurred between your own dignity, peace, serenity, and sanctity, to the point that you actually begin to believe that absorbing and acting out the...
by Reneegede | Sep 27, 2016 | Opinion
Evangelist & Author Beverly Broadus-Green, mother of rap legend & actor Calvin Broadus Jr. aka ‘Snoop Dogg’ recently spoke at Arkansas Baptist College (ABC) She will visit the African-American Cinema Film and Hip-Hop course at 4:30 pm this coming...
by Reneegede | Sep 26, 2016 | Opinion
Across America, as well as in the small Georgia town in which I live, Black people are certifiably too “clique-ish” to gain enough national momentum to force America to do what it has to do right now. Black America is too separated and self-contained, too...
by Reneegede | Sep 23, 2016 | Opinion
The Case for Calling Racist Killings What They Are: Fascism in America. VIABLE SOLUTIONS article to follow this one. America has a history of lynching and the details of it go without saying. No one has to drag ol’ boy Jim Crow through the mud again. He has...
by Reneegede | Sep 22, 2016 | Opinion
PART II Seen on Facebook today: Petra Ophelia Gertjegerdes 4 hrs · Columbus · Watching Don King give his speech, and seeing all those ‘Caucasians’ laugh at his ‘nigga’ comments made me so upset and sad, all at once. He didn’t even have...
by Reneegede | Sep 11, 2016 | Opinion
{1}. Shaquille O’Neal, per FOX News: “Shaquille O’Neal will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame this week. The four-time NBA champion, 15-time All-Star, Olympic gold medalist and supremely outsized personality joined the “Fox and...
by Reneegede | Aug 16, 2016 | Opinion
Jump right on to the “Good Ship Jesus” on this one: If you’re making $7.75 – $8.00 an hour and the market value of an employee in today’s terms is $34.00 per hour as to actual cost-of-living ($22.50 if you want to be low-income),...
by Reneegede | Jul 4, 2016 | Opinion
Let us be PERFECTLY clear: July 4 1776 was not a holiday nor a Holy Day for any Black citizen in America. As the ol’ boys system fought for their own freedom, they simultaneously enslaved Black people and kept them economically at-bay; and that enslavement was...
