by Reneegede | Jul 31, 2014 | Opinion
Wil (Wilner) Baptiste said that he and his partner, Kevin Sylvester, came into their career as violinists in different ways. “Kevin used to get in trouble in school and his mother forced him to take a Saturday music class, which is where he learned to play, but...
by Reneegede | Jul 29, 2014 | Opinion
It’s been interesting. To say the least. In the past few months, many of us Black folk throughout America have proudly managed to go on to mainstream social media, like Facebook and others, and shut down quite a few white racist operative “Tea...
by Reneegede | Jul 27, 2014 | Opinion
Prologue Two hundred million over five years does not promise to knock a ‘small dent’ in President Obama’s White House Initiative “My Brother’s Keeper,” but thanks to another $100 million -a recent booster shot investment- we not...
by Reneegede | Jul 25, 2014 | Opinion
“No longer will it be said in Jerusalem that the parents eat the sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” (Jeremiah 31:29) Generational curses are prevalent in the Black community and have been since nearly the beginning of time. Maybe...
by Reneegede | Jul 25, 2014 | Opinion
Definition: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (P.T.S.S.) is a 2005 book by Joy DeGruy which describes a set of historical and transgenerational behaviors, beliefs and actions associated with or, related to...
by Reneegede | Jul 24, 2014 | Opinion
Only one thing happened on ABC: They decided to “spoof” yet another sitcom about “Black” people pretending to be white pretending to be Black–just to see what we would say; or this holy mess is seriously about to be a TV show this...
by Reneegede | Jul 20, 2014 | Opinion
It is the consensus of many Black people all over the nation, or at least the ones I’ve talked to from the east and west coasts to the north and south of America, that integration was ‘the absolute worst thing’ that ever happened to Black people....
by Reneegede | Jul 18, 2014 | Opinion
There’s, see, like this documentary, see, and it’s all about superheroes and stuff, see…and there’s these white dudes and a couple of white femme fatales, see, and they are actually in a state of mind where they think they can save the world,...
by Reneegede | Jul 16, 2014 | Opinion
Last count, there was a tad more than 40 million [confessed] Black people living in America. My official “nose count” has that number at slightly more than 100 million, but out of those who don’t gloss over Blackness in favor of the words...
by Reneegede | Jul 13, 2014 | Opinion
Now that I have your attention, this header is by no means whatsoever a “blame whitey” sort of statement. Black people in America are not totally innocent and exonerated from the types of actions and attitudes that have prevailed in our own destruction in...
