Category: The Other Side of the Tracks

When Blacks could vote, the white power of state governments imposed onerous barriers, such as literacy tests and disinformation about voting days to today’s widespread efforts to disenfranchise Blacks through voter ID laws. Now that’s the “rigged” system, not this hocus-pocus, unfounded gibberish of which Trump speaks.

It is imperative that you take a minute to observe the faces of the voices that are crying about their “anxiety.” They are chiefly a non-intellectual, working class, rural lot. These are the same people that Barack Obama, the 2008 presidential candidate said, in times of anxiety, “cling to their religion and guns.”

Kaepernick said it took time for him to decide how to express himself, but he's solidly comfortable with his methodology — even if it costs him endorsements or his spot on the 49ers’ roster (because he is being covertly threatened) — as he attempts to shine yet another light on and race relations and police brutality, specifically.

Political Correctness is a necessary remedy in a country with such a sordid history; one that has enslaved humans based on skin color, or denied Constitutional protections to those not of the dominant culture.

Muhammad Ali’s humor and gentle nature in the face of great racism, is why the USA is a tad closer to being “a more perfect union.” You might think Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is racist (as I do), but he’s only a mouthpiece for the millions of other white Americans who keep Muhammad Ali’s fight for freedom, justice and equality alive. I hate that fact, but it’s a reality!

Woven into the fabric of his music were the jewels of his brilliance. The mere embedding of urban dialect into the King’s English sparked wonder and bewilderment in me.

Among the players is Donald Trump. He played the 2016 race like Shaquille O’Neal and Moses Malone used to do with their opponents…simply the big bully on the court. The other teams knew not what to do with him.

You must understand that Republicans—mainstream or otherwise—want to maintain white superiority. That’s what their divisive, imperialist policies are all about.

For the record, a Magic Negro is a recurring character in American cinema that's portrayed as coming to the aid of a film's white protagonist. Magical Negro characters often possess special insight or mystical powers and have long been a tradition in American fiction.