The Trust Factor in Black America

The Trust Factor in Black America

One of the biggest real-time issues in the Black community is trust, sprinkled in with a pot full of neediness. Not financial neediness, but spiritual neediness based on a mixed tincture of racist social deconstruction and self-destructive moral behavior. As a...
Setting Relationship Standards

Setting Relationship Standards

Setting Relationship Standards “Nowadays, I like to keep it classy.  But, even if I was like I was back a couple of years ago, I definitely wouldn’t fight over an ugly, brain-dead, high school dropout. You wouldn’t even catch me with a guy like that. I have places to...
Stop Chanting for More Black Businesses

Stop Chanting for More Black Businesses

I think it’s time to have a real look at Black Business.  Why? Because we are constantly beat over the head with people saying that we need to start more business in order to get out of the situation that we are in.  But no one ever goes into much more detail than...
This Can Save The Black Community

This Can Save The Black Community

Having been around UI for a few years now, I can tell when subject is going to stir the pot a bit. This one here about marriage and the black community definitely will when the answer seems to be an obvious yes to so many. The difference is because there are a strong...
Candyman: A New Twist on an Old Classic

Candyman: A New Twist on an Old Classic

Remember the Trayvon Martin case? Akin to many (African) Americans, I, too, was appalled by the verdict of the Trayvon Martin Case. As an African-American man and father, I found it difficult accepting the words “Not Guilty.” They haunted me similar to Candyman. I...
Supporting a business that is Supporting Us

Supporting a business that is Supporting Us

We often talk about businesses in the black community and how we need more of them and those that we have aren’t catering to or giving back to the black community.   This line of thinking seems to be common amongst many in the diaspora especially as it relates to the...
How To Grasp Slavery In Terms of 12 Years A Slave Movie

How To Grasp Slavery In Terms of 12 Years A Slave Movie

I’ve been taught we have to meet people where they are if you expect to engage them. If i’m any good, I might move those people a little bit closer to my position. Right now, the people i’m interested in engaging seem to be caught up on the newest...
The Power of Oppression

The Power of Oppression

The last 400+ years are rich in black history, stop avoiding it and embrace it, because just like the history from 4000 years ago, it is who you are.