Fighting in Blackface: What the Popularity of Black Boxers Says About the Fans
Following a victory over Paul Malignaggi, Adrien Broner responds to a question in a post-fight interview saying: “I took his belt…and his girl,” in reference to a controversy over a mutual female acquaintance they shared. While the crowd roared in reaction to such a...
BI: The Scandal
Black inferiority goes very deep to the point where it has a sublime life line within our community. BI roots come from being in a mental, physical, financial and spiritual states of consciousness/awareness that lead to a deep seeded envy, jealousy, and hate (EJH)...
Why Watch Porn?
Quote: "Online pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry where every second over 3000 dollars are spent and almost 30,000 people are fapping...Unless someone shuts down the internet, pornography will continue to be an online powerhouse." - Daily Infographic Why...
The Black America ‘Truth or Dare’
Rules of Engagement: One player starts the game by asking another to choose "Truth or Dare?" If the player chooses "truth", then the first player poses a question, usually an embarrassing one, which the second player must answer truthfully. If the player instead...
About “Jay DatRapper” Who Threw Away A College Education
A little transparency disclaimer up front: I'm not a huge fan of rap music, and I say that with yet another disclaimer in mind ... there are a couple, and I do mean a couple, of exceptions whose names I will not call out for obvious reasons. However, upon hearing the...
Calling Nick Cannon’s Whiteface Gesture Racist Is Laughable
Actor Nick Cannon has found himself embroiled in controversy. Cannon, an African American, appeared on Instagram made up entirely in whiteface. The picture depicted Cannon as his alter ego, a character named “Connor Smallnut”, who serves as the basis for Cannon’s...
The Next Best Thing Is Already THERE
Education has become a staging area for innovative ideas. Similar to technology, education seeks the newest idea to improve test scores, measure student learning, and prepare students to be productive members of society. As an educator, witnessing these shifts in...
Where Are the Aaliyah Anderson’s Of The World?
"The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who...
Saving Face in the Black Race – Don’t Lose Your Black Card
There is a good number of us who have been in those situations where we feel like our black counterparts are constantly questioning our legitimacy to participate in the group. What I've recently discovered as a student on a predominantly white college campus is that...
BI: The Obstacle to Our Complete Mental Freedom
Have you had enough of all this inferiority myth placed on you? Inferiority is hateration to the highest degree of self-hatred. Inferiority comes from the root word inferior; meaning low in value, quality, rank, position, status, not of best, and mediocre according...
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 “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
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
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
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...
Angela Corey: What Black Woman in America Doesn’t Know Her Kind?
By now, everyone has heard the news that State Attorney Angela Corey has "upped the ante" on the conviction of Marissa Alexander from the 20 years that she originally did not deserve to three times that amount, or sixty years of prison that she does not deserve three...
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
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 slave movie...
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.
George Zimmerman Smiling And Signing Autographs At a Gun Show
There is no way you can make this stuff up. The man who shoots and kills an unarmed teenager attends a gun show as a special guest to sign autographs. George Zimmerman and the wider American population falls to a new low with this disaster. As you probably have...
