by Reneegede | Aug 1, 2018 | Opinion
For those who thought predatory lending was a thing of the past due to President Obama’s now-Trump-defunct Consumer Protection Bureau, behold Dan Gilbert, owner of Quicken Loans/Rocket Mortgage, and owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Gilbert has, so far, managed to...
by Reneegede | Jul 18, 2018 | Opinion
Ode to Claflin: “They said they built the train tracks over the Swiss alps between Venice and Vienna before there was a train that could make the trip. They built it anyway. They knew one day the train would come.” Those of you who recognize that small bit...
by Reneegede | Jul 4, 2018 | Opinion
Hold up. So some dumb ass tacky ghetto trash Black female saunters up liquored-up-while-Black and soaked to the gills with white folks’es profit-making alcohol and drugs on one of the most white racist supremacist holidays in the history of America. She’d...
by Reneegede | Jun 27, 2018 | Opinion
[FOREWORD: This was mis-edited in error and then substantially mis-categorized from Economics to “politics” in another media format. However, this is the correct version, which is not a ‘political’ topic at all.] *** In the highly unlikely...
by Reneegede | Jun 15, 2018 | Opinion
Foreword For years now, word out on the street was that gentrification was an “issue,” or a “problem” of high social and racial dimensions. However, what comes of it, in the end, is a lot of Black people complaining about things they could have...
by Reneegede | Jun 13, 2018 | Opinion
For the first time in the history of my nearly 60 years as a citizen of the United States of America, I feel ashamed of being a citizen-member of this nation. This, too, is the fault of the by-product, Donald Trump. Don’t bother with the “you hate...
by Reneegede | Jun 5, 2018 | Opinion
Yes, as far back as the late 1970s, Black America invented rap and hip-hop culture, and it set the world on fire. One thing whites love to do as far as cultural attrition or cultural misappropriation is to take credit for something that isn’t theirs. They...
by Reneegede | Jun 1, 2018 | Opinion
Sadaria Davis is dead. Murders happen all over America every day, and true enough, white people DO kill white people … all day every day. However, it seems that when it’s a murder that happens in CHICAGO, the news is painted in a special limelight due to...
by Reneegede | Jun 1, 2018 | Opinion
There are three sides to every story … THEIRS, OURS, and THE TRUTH. The Twisted Complexity of A Color-Conscious American Culture is backward and upside down, but there is no doubt that it is not PROGRESSIVE by a long shot, and that is #bydesign. PROGRESS means...
by Reneegede | May 31, 2018 | Opinion
Everything that can be said has been said. Everything that can be done has been done. The matter of all things in the rap music / hip-hop culture can be summed up in ten (10) points, almost without exception, and that is with VERY FEW exceptions: (1) It is an...
