by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog, Culture
Today interracial dating seems to be more popular than at any time in my recent memory. A couple of my siblings married white women, my sons have dated white women I have mixed relatives, which is not uncommon. My nephew married a white woman. I have dated white men....
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 13, 2014 | Blog
I attended a luncheon with mostly female educators, three students from a high school performed. There were three young ladies and two of them recited original poetry about being in abusive relationships. When they finished the audience went crazy, They were...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 11, 2014 | Blog
Yes! Yes! Yes! Congratulations to the kids in California. Have you ever had a job and you failed to accomplish the goals of the company and you still kept your job? Let me answer that for you, the answer is h*** no! You would be fired for being incompetent and...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 10, 2014 | Blog, Culture
Did you know there has been a major increase in the number of hate groups since President Barak Obama has been elected? Let’s see how about 800% according to some groups that are recording this type of internal chaos. buy flagyl online...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 8, 2014 | Blog, Culture
Every week end we get a murder report from Chicago, this week they killed forty-two more African Americans. One of the craziest ideas I heard was from Roland Martin Show. He recommended that Marshall Law be declared, and the government send in the troops. Chicago...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 7, 2014 | Blog, Culture
You know we have shades of vulgar and levels of acceptance. We used to have cultural standards to define vulgarity as African American, what the hell happened? Did we forget we should have a public and private self? Did we forget there was a lane for children and a...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 7, 2014 | Blog
Does that sound strange? It may sound strange to people that are unfamiliar with the School to Prison Pipeline. As African Americans, we need to be on this issue no matter what part of America you reside in. This is the beginning of the socio-economic trap. If your...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 1, 2014 | Culture
We all should have heard by now that our good and black President has incarcerated more Mexicans than his predecessors. I was listening to the Mellissa Harris-Perry show this morning on this subject. The Mexicans are locked away in jails, indefinitely. I damn near...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 1, 2014 | Blog
STEM, science, technology, engineering, math, is one of the new hot buttons being promoted as the savior of the under resourced urban educational system. As an eternal optimist, I wanted to believe that if schools adopted a STEM curriculum it would provide a stable...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | May 31, 2014 | Blog
If I was a prisoner in Guantanamo I would be so f****** angry I could not think straight. I empathize with the prisoners but I cannot imagine the sheer level of craziness involved in their daily lives. The United States government has tortured these men for years. We...
