Category: The Other Side of the Tracks

I’m exhausted. Not because of the grays showing up weekly in my hair. No…I’m exhausted from the constant reports of injustice in our country’s courtrooms. I’m nauseated every time I hear political season fundraising and the effects of the Citizens United ruling. Shifting elections through dollars is unethical, but it is accepted. But what exasperates…

High profile trials hold the front pages of America’s news media captive, but it’s more likely that the criminal justice system lacks the ability to hold high profile suspects captive. According to script, another white male escapes the grips of justice. As I watch American prisons filled with Black males – the guilty and the…

Anyone following this nonsense should do so with an air of insult and disdain. A disdain for corporate America and the legacy of American privilege – white privilege in particular. Let�s rewind a few weeks to examine the saga of Yahoo�s Chief Executive, Scott Thompson, who demonstrates the reason why Black activists and conscious Americans…

I find it funny that every week over the past three months since the fatal shooting of Florida teen, Trayvon Martin, evidence is drip, drip, dripping into the troughs of the press. These so-called pieces of evidence are the seeds for tainting a potential jury. This is not coincidental; this is the strategy of conservative…

So, you want to ignore me? My feelings aren�t hurt. You want to ignore my claims? Well, that�s something altogether different. I told you and effectively demonstrated, through anecdotal and empirical evidence, that racism in America is not only alive and will but perpetually growing in our culture�s periphery and by means of institutionalized socialization.…

Continuing in my humble – and I hope what will prove to be relevant – undertaking, I proceed with musings on the Trayvon Martin matter. Every now and then the supernatural occurs. Supermoons fill the horizon. Earthquakes and tsunamis roar in tandem. Dictators fall like dominoes. And, Bill Cosby speaks. Cosby recently weighed in on…

My commentary on this protracted presidential campaign season was ready for editing when I stopped in my tracks: I want to continue waxing, if not eloquently, then coherently, about justice served and at times deferred/denied in the Trayvon Martin matter. So my series picks up with: I watched and listened to TV and radio commentators…

It is true. I am not the biggest fan of law enforcement. No, it is not because I�ve been arrested several times during my lifetime. No, it is not because people who wear like clothing constitute �gangs� and they scare me. It is because law enforcement – and those who pride themselves as law enforcers…

As I get older, I become more observant. I watch for signs of sincerity from my vantage point of societal politics. As an idealist, I listen for the sincere dissemination of news, fact and information so that I can accurately inform my constituents in order that they may make informed decisions. In regards to the…

Of course, I don’t find it amazing or appalling; I am not dumbfounded, nor am I astounded. America does what it does out of sheer stupidity or self-interest (which could be one in the same). In this highly critical election year, just the thought that the general populace could elect a regressive president and label…