Category: The Other Side of the Tracks

We cannot continue to make rich the very people who are keeping us poor.

I can’t imagine that a 70-year-old man with a toddler’s temperament and a fifth-grader’s vocabulary could do this all on his own.

Donald Trump governs as if only white males exist. Just take a look at his department cabinet heads he’s selected. Nothing about it remotely represents this country’s populace nor does it represent any semblance of Black America. But of course, that’s his intent.

Over the past few days, I’ve been left to wonder how I can respect the office of the president with a man who has proven to be thoughtless and resistant to study the very thing he must show excellence in - namely governing the lives of over 360 million human beings.

The question for the media is whether he’s telling the truth or deliberately lying. Misinformation is not disinformation, and the media cannot afford to normalize either.

The perpetual cycle of head-banging, foot-stomping, hand-wringing, and singing Kumbaya is well into its second century.

Let’s step back, exhale, and first, organize ourselves into a sustainable movement for Black self-determination that comprises a bloc of one million voters.

The documented history of dastardly tactics used to disenfranchise Black voters is nothing to be proud of. From literacy tests to voter intimidation to outright violence against voters, this Presidential election has out-dastardlied (oblige me to coin a new word) anything the US has witnessed in my lifetime.