Category: The Other Side of the Tracks

The Supreme Court has lost your mind…once again. For all of those “family values” conservatives, you’ve been shucked! On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California law banning sales or rentals of violent video games to minors as a violation of free-speech rights, its first ruling in a video game case. Did the…

My country is corrupt. I posit that it is complicit in the murder and annihilation of my race of people. I believe they have been inventing ingenious, covert ways to undermine population growth of people of color who may pose a threat to the traditional power structure. Why are you surprised? I find it hard…

I’ve got some friends who claim to be “men of God.” I dare doubt them, but I listen and watch their belief and rhetoric in action…especially, the Christian ones. I’ve been having some heavy conversations with those peers about an issue that is and will be front-burner in the socio-political arena: gay rights. The majority…

I am witnessing an ethnic cleansing as sure as I am alive. I’ve read about the Native American, the Jews of Eastern Europe and apartheid South Africa. I’ve seen Kosovo, Myanmar and Tibet in my lifetime. I see the news reports out of Tunisia, Yemen and Libya. Yet, there’s a cleansing in America, of its…

This time in America is pivotal. This is the time that candidates prepare to challenge the affections of the people and place their souls on the table. Running for president of the United States is a bear-all proposition. Unfortunately, there are some paramount issues on our backs that can’t be veiled as this ritual takes…

Now that the smoke has cleared and the drama has died down, can we cut to the chase? The good ol’ land of liberty, which collects taxes on your labor and sends your kids into foreign lands regardless of your permission, just lied to you – and did it with unabashed proficiency. This was no…

Historically, it has been posited that “all men are created equal.” That simple phrase holds basis for the hope of all Americans born in this country over the past half century. With the flurry of legislative leaps of the 60s and the improbable implementations of executive enforcements of the 70s, that basis for hope catapulted…

The latest polling says, “if the election were held today, President Obama would lose to at least two of the Republican hopefuls.” Oh yeah? I’m a bit fatigued by fiction and over-speculation, yet what I know is that if you say something enough times, people will believe it. This oft repeated phrase heads the news…

I’d like to think that I’ve been pretty consistent in my claims that the poor and disadvantaged are under attack. I’d argue the case of the Black poor, in particular, where others might isolate class instead of race, as the determinate factor. Herein, I will not only offer the empirical evidence of my claims, but…

There are some things that simply need to change. There are others that need to change now! The most recent disaster making its way through the southern and mid-western United States gives me reason to demand that all holy-people quit speaking for God. It has become abundantly clear that man gets wrong what God wants…