by Reneegede | May 26, 2014 | Opinion
Before I get started, two housekeeping chores first. “This is not another session of Obamapologetics, I only use him to relate an experience that seems to be common amongst Black people who say we have no trust of one another.” And “We already know...
by Reneegede | May 26, 2014 | Opinion
[Reporting for News Team One] I begin this Memorial Day Monday after Collection Sunday with a disclaimer: “All churches do not have ginormous free-flowing budgets.” So please don’t get it twisted…this is not “church-bashing.”...
by Reneegede | May 22, 2014 | Opinion
For the record, let’s set the record straight. When the bough breaks, the whole danged crib falls – not just the cradle. Celebrity news is not news unless it has some applicable reference to the rest of us who are reading about it. Celebrity news just for...
by Reneegede | May 20, 2014 | Opinion
One of the things Black folk are often accused of is not staying on top of their local government political processes. Non-involvement wreaks havoc on the way our governments and democratic processes work. It’s not enough that people actually put their lives on...
by Reneegede | May 18, 2014 | Opinion
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the...
by Reneegede | May 17, 2014 | Opinion
The Short Story on “The Black Community” is that it is spiritually, morally and mentally deceased, as well as physically inactive. I buried it a few weeks back for lack of righteous standing in America for going on 50 years now. If we had a “black...
by Reneegede | May 16, 2014 | Opinion
It’s what you answer to. [Which may explain why the Good Lord doesn’t answer most people’s prayers when they address Him as “Jesus,” but I digress.] Let’s face it. Black folks, especially American Black folk, are suffering from...
by Reneegede | May 15, 2014 | Opinion
Okay, most Black folk ‘hate’ Clarence Thomas is a strong thing to imply. But he isn’t an “Uncle Tom.” Uncle Tom was a hero who sacrificed his life so some other slaves could escape the plantation. Too old to run himself, they killed him...
by Reneegede | May 13, 2014 | Opinion
It wasn’t so long ago that I attended an Op-Ed journalism conference in Atlanta for women writers. The idea behind it was to start to take the conversation about what women can be and should be “allowed” to write about (‘think pink’ topics like...
by Reneegede | May 12, 2014 | Opinion
TMZ, ever the ones to intentionally seek out and be the first to report a story (they broke the news about the death of Michael Jackson before anyone else heard it), has reported an elevator chance fight of literal “video fisticuffs” between rapper/hiphop...
