by Reneegede | Feb 19, 2019 | Opinion
Am I My Brothers’ Keeper? Yes I am. Yes we can. Yes, he is. President Barack Obama spent the official President’s Day in Oakland, California, in memory of Trayvon Martin and to celebrate the anniversary of his own hand-carried signature initiative My...
by Reneegede | Dec 30, 2018 | Opinion
Facebook Post of the Day: “THE GUN HAS REPLACED THE ROPE.” Yeah, I know, it’s all “negative,” to speak of such things. Negativity is often seen as self-effacing when sometimes what appears negative is just a FACT and the TRUTH. However,...
by Reneegede | Mar 22, 2018 | Opinion
I was recently laughed at, ridiculed really, for having a hidden nickname, something in tune or in touch with “Rashida,” as if I’m a known Black conscious soul culture warrior of the Islamic ilk. In a sense, it’s amazing to see Black people cut...
by Reneegede | Feb 28, 2017 | Opinion
In closing out Black History Month 2017, it is with a saddened heart that I must write today’s essay on the truest and deepest impact of racism and racist activity in America, not the semi-gloss surface paint impact that we are often most comfortable with. Yeah,...
by Reneegede | Sep 26, 2016 | Opinion
Across America, as well as in the small Georgia town in which I live, Black people are certifiably too “clique-ish” to gain enough national momentum to force America to do what it has to do right now. Black America is too separated and self-contained, too...
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by Chum Sejimon | Aug 9, 2016 | Blog, Info, News
A North Carolina murder-eerily reminiscent of the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin-reportedly occurred in the early morning of August 7, 2016. Chad Copley, a 39-year-old neighborhood watch vigilante, called 911 claiming there was “a bunch of hoodlums racing” outside of...
by Reneegede | Feb 25, 2015 | Opinion
July 2012 – …George Zimmerman has no regrets from the night he killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, the Florida resident told Fox News’s Sean Hannity Wednesday. “I feel that it was all God’s plan,” Zimmerman said....
by Reneegede | Jan 28, 2015 | Opinion
“New York Times columnist Charles Blow, one of the country’s leading speakers and writers on race and American identity, said on Twitter Saturday afternoon that his son, Tahj Blow ’16, had been held at gunpoint by Yale Police officers.” Blow...
by Reneegede | Dec 28, 2014 | Opinion
UI MEME OF THE DAY, A Daily Series… Never at any time should a man’s life and life’s work or livelihood be taken away from him over any animal. There was never a man born or created who was “lesser” than an animal....
by Reneegede | Dec 23, 2014 | Opinion
UI MEME OF THE DAY, A Daily Series… The “I Can Breathe” t-shirts and paraphernalia of the police forces in the United States of America symbolizes the mocking and degradation of too many Black Americans who were lynched and ritualistically executed by police...
