Dr. Carlos E. Russell, PhD

Let not the lion sleep! To fight, that he may live, Is a promise we must keep.

All is not well in the universe! All seems decadent and perverse. On our Earth there is no mirth. A sickening and putrid smell envelops us all poisoning our world.

There is, for African-Americans and those others who inhabit our diaspora, as I see it, a burning need for strong, determined, and committed leadership; possessor of a clear vision and goal that serves to guide our people; a leader - man or woman - with sense of command and loyalty.

are designed to mask his obvious personal ambition, incompetence, insecurity, ignorance, and inflate his weak ego by sending thunderous bolting tweets across the national political heavens which, contrary to his expectations, are phosphorescent lights illuminating the skies with narcissistic images of his infantile bravado and pseudo machismo leaving one aghast in disbelief.

They cannot destroy matter, They cannot destroy energy, They cannot destroy truth, They cannot destroy love, And Malcolm is all of the above!

We need to develop an urban non violent guerrilla movement designated to rebel, resist, and attack. It must be one that incessantly continues to snap at his infantile ego while building the machinery to take the reins of power.

Few progressive Blacks—if any, I posit, believed or expected that a Clinton presidency would have been the harbinger of social, economic, and political transformation.

Given the “Thanksgiving Day” celebration and the growing angst and fury evident in so many Americans - white and Black - and the equally jubilant escalation of the political aggressive behavior of “some” of the triumphant supporters of Donald Trump - bordering on violent euphoria - prompted me to think of Frederick Douglass’ iconic question “What to the Negro is your Fourth of July?

White America, in my view, has chosen to delude itself into believing that it can cast the first stone. It is psychologically too painful to do otherwise; and Black America has permitted itself to be bamboozled into the false notion that, with Obama’s victory for example, we now live in a post racial society.