Category: The Other Side of the Tracks

What ‘cha gonna’ do with him? He’s the analyst you don’t want to hate, but he makes it so damned hard not to! Only the few, the proud, the Fox-inians can understand him. Why? Because he says the things that whites want to say. I describe Fox News as journalism most adverse to the American…

If anyone ever tells you to support free market capitalism and oppose regulation of corporations, make sure you think long and hard before you respond. Think even longer if you are tempted to respond “Okay.” The Ayn Rand theory of “letting the free market police itself” has been criticized for decades. It’s been lauded by…

No, I’m not going to say “I told you so” – even if I did – because that may cause you to shy away from the debate. What I will say is that we’re chewing some fat that has already been chewed, but forgot to swallow. This is the time in presidential politics that presidents…

I’ve said recently that there is a concerted “war on us.” And who is “us,” you ask? “Us” refers to the people that conservative Republicans despise: poor, working class, and/or people of color. That definition is greatly expanded when you factor in the cross-sections of people that fit into that description: the unemployed, under-educated, illiterate…

I heard a very interesting topic on a local radio show the other day and I decided to call in. I knew that facts would be missed and haters of a social agenda would skew the conversation. I was right. As with most call-in shows, the host will rarely give you adequate time to make…

I wrote a song a few years back that I never really warmed up to, until I recorded it. It was written while I sat behind the walls of a federal prison. It was fueled by the reality of, not only the place where I was sitting in American society in July of “07, but…

I have to ask myself, like any other American, do I feel American? One thing I know is that if I voice that I don’t, I may get attacked by the Right as not being so. So I better be careful of what I say…naw, I don’t think so! I don’t feel American; and there’s…

This commentary will do one of two things: it will either open robust and earnest dialogue on matters of great import to Americans or it will draw the ire of self-important people who discount the experiences of others. Of course, I hope for the former, but expect the latter. I’m pretty much sick of the…

Note: BC welcomes Perry Redd as a columnist. “The Other Side of the Tracks” will appear on a regular basis. Another appointment, another disappointment is how I describe the progression of the Obama administration. There were grand hopes, as well as fears, when it came to speculation on how President Barack Obama would conduct his…