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 Ghostndamachine | May 5, 2014 | Culture
I posted an article a few weeks ago that dealt with this issue, but from reading conversations among my brothers, I thought that I might hit on it again. To sag or not to sag, what the hell difference does it make? Let me first dispel a myth. Sagging did indeed come...
by Samayoch | Apr 29, 2014 | Blog
“Alea iacta est”, in English: “the die is cast” … Sterling, the 21st century vintage plantation owner, was caught acting as a white male born during the hayday of our oppression. Nurtured, educated and formed in that good ol’ white tradition. I wont go over the...
by Patrick Irvine | Apr 29, 2014 | News
So it would seem that the dust is beginning to settle and rather quickly. Black people have settled into their customary premature celebrations over superficial victories while the larger dominant white society smiles and pats us on the back cheering with us. We all...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 29, 2014 | Culture, News
On this day that I proclaim U.I. Tuesday I just thought I would remind some of our posters about our responsibility to our readers. I am making my attempt, and I hope some of you will join me, to wean myself of that corporate monster called Facebook. Anyone...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog
Fate is a funny thing. I had a totally different beginning for this piece but I ended up changing it based on conversations I have had over the last few days with my UI compadres. The direction I’m taking with this post is to answer that age old question. You...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog
As I always say, being an ex-con makes me somewhat of a subject matter expert of most things all criminal justicey. Articles like the one analyzed earlier today always make me want to jump through my laptop and choke the person writing this nonsense. I agree,...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 23, 2014 | Blog
The lie that is told to our people is that we don’t snitch. That crime wouldn’t be so bad in the hood if we would just tell what we see. They even have public service announcement to drive home this nonsense. What is it . . . Just Tell It? Notwithstanding...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 23, 2014 | Blog
That is just one small example in the overwhelming flood of cases that are prosecuted in this country every day of the working week; and sometimes on the weekend if the court is really clogged up. For the powers that be, there is no incentive, NONE, in reducing crime...
by Samayoch | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, History
The wellknown 40 acres of land (and a mule was added later) for the enslaved African came from the Union General William T. Sherman. At the end of the Civil War, around 400,000 acres of land in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were taken from former slave owners...
