by Reneegede | Sep 2, 2015 | Opinion
The above is a semi-precarious statement to make, considering the racial climate in these United States nowadays; a racial climate that has been tipping the edge, teetering to the brink, and unfolding layers of memories of the dynamics of yesteryear (1965 and prior)...
by Reneegede | Jul 30, 2015 | Opinion
Roseland: One of Chicago’s notorious ganglands…or so we’ve been led to believe by NBC News. Every time something evil happens to Black people in Chicago, it’s at the top of the news ratings on “black on black crime” for the entire...
by Reneegede | Jul 20, 2015 | Opinion
Facebook is a most masterful tool for any attempt to take the political pulse of the Black community at-large, to distract, or even to gauge the typical day-to-day goings-on of what some refer to as the “African-American” people [Raven Symone be damned]....
by Reneegede | Jul 18, 2015 | Opinion
Generational Wealth and ADLs (activities of daily living). ________________________________________________________ We hear a lot of talk about the accumulation of wealth and the gaps and income disparities between Black Americans and their white constituents, who...
by Reneegede | Jul 11, 2015 | Opinion
This is dedicated to the sistahs living in “fight mode” on a near-daily basis. Yeah, you know the ones. They look at you and call you “ignorant,” and you just think you’re being diligent — holding it in the road when someone else is...
by Reneegede | Jul 6, 2015 | Opinion
Aside from his profession as a running back for the Seattle Seahawks, Marshawn Lynch is, in most ways, a typical American. Like anyone else, the lineaments of his success are consistent with the status symbols of his childhood and hometown. Like many good [children],...
by Reneegede | Jul 6, 2015 | Opinion
“We are the only people that pray to a god that doesn’t look like us. As a matter of fact we pray to a god that looks like our oppressor…” That was a Facebook comment, an actual real one – name not needed here for obvious reasons. buy...
by Reneegede | Jun 29, 2015 | Opinion
Opposing Views dot com opens up a news story on June 29 with an angle that almost makes self-righteous people who believe in the industry of having a “true” work ethic cringe. Keep in mind that, for them, a “true” work ethic means that...
by Reneegede | Jun 28, 2015 | Opinion
This is who Bree is and what she truly represents, not “some white wonder woman” caricature who has done nothing more than represent a cartoon image that doesn’t actually work for a living. She is officially the Rosa Parks of the New Millennium,...
by Reneegede | Jun 25, 2015 | Opinion
Today, June 25, 2015 is six years to the day that we found out that Michael Joseph Jackson had died, and it turned the music world topsy-turvy and at a grave loss for what would transpire with the absence of one of the industry’s last and best greatest original...