by Ghostndamachine | Apr 14, 2014 | Culture
I don’t dress like today’s youth and luckily my era had a different dress code. I, however, am afraid that we are telling our young boys that how you look makes a difference in whether or not you’ll be successful in this country. We all have a...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 13, 2014 | Blog
In 2016 we will move beyond the Obama era to a new chapter in Presidential politics. The current political landscape seems to point to a likely showdown between the two most famous families of our current era of politics. The contest possibly may come down to Hilary...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 13, 2014 | Blog
“Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he’s treated,” . . . “We have moved in the right direction, and...
by Patrick Irvine | Apr 12, 2014 | Culture, News
Alright Black America sit down and let’s have a chit chat. I want to address a few issues between the men and the women. This isn’t going to be your typical “why don’t you to come together” speech, this isn’t going to be that regular “we are the world” jazz, and...
by Patrick Irvine | Apr 9, 2014 | Culture
As we sit back and marvel with jubilation, frustration, agitation, or aggravation (depending on your perspective) at the world around us. We see examples of what we could be and how we could get there swirling around us in a never ending game of nanny nanny boo boo. ...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 8, 2014 | Blog
The N-Word – I have told myself time and time again that I would write something about the argument that is going on within our nation about the term nigger/nigga. I have went back and forth with myself about whether or not it is ever okay to use this word,...
by Claudius West | Apr 3, 2014 | Celebrities, Culture, News
Uncle Bubbas Seafood And Oyster House, the restaurant whose manager sued celebrity chef Paula Deen and, in the process, effectively destroyed her empire are now, yet another casualty of the cook’s nationally publicized racist scandal. According to news accounts...
by Samayoch | Mar 31, 2014 | Blog
And there it was, the icing on the cake of racial stereotypes and defamation. Fashion designers at the Milan Halloween fest in Italy Europe, otherwise spectacles of originality, joined the global peasantry and closed their ranks in what I call the Blackface-polonaise...
by Claudius West | Mar 29, 2014 | Blog, Celebrities, Culture
Television personality and comedian Nick Cannon debuted his white faced alter-ego “Connor Smallnut” this week on Instagram. The backlash on both sides was immediate, predictable and, as usual, completely overblown. From one side, cries of “reverse...
by Furious | Nov 7, 2013 | Blog
Like it or not, black people use the N-Word, with an A, among one another. It is a cultural thing that has swirled around our community for decades now. Many people don’t like it, but it seems to be something that is here to stay, at least for the time being....