I’m feeling good today. Like I never lost it. Didn’t slip and skid it away to age or retirement along the way. I could and probably should wait for accolades […]
Category: Opinion
Posted inGuest Opinions, Opinion, Practical Politics
The Politics of Politics
The heat and little light of the past few weeks of the present political tournament in the USA has reminded me recently of what I do miss about teaching at […]
Posted inCounting the Cost, National, Opinion
Race neutrality is anti-Blackness
During this Supreme Court session, the justices will tackle affirmative action in two cases brought by “Students for Fair Admissions” opposing affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University […]
Posted inGovernment, National, Opinion, Practical Politics
The Politics of lying, blustering and head-faking the electorate
While we are all quite used to politicians and would-be pols stretching the truth, negatively asking leading questions about opponents, fibbing about an opponent’s real record in or out of […]
Posted inOpinion
Business, bank groups sue to stop CFPB’s fight against financial discrimination
On September 28, two of the nation’s largest and most influential business groups filed a lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and its director, Rohit Chopra. The action […]
Posted inLocal, Opinion, Practical Politics
The politics of using the proper logic for the subject
I’ve wrestled seriously the past two weeks with whether to write about this issue. Here goes. ‘You can’t make racist comments unless you’re part of a racial group.’ Although scientifically, […]
Posted inHealth, National, Opinion
Black wombs matter: See ‘Aftershock’
Did you know that Black women are three or four times more likely to die from childbirth complications than White women? Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL), who heads the Congressional Black […]
Posted inEntertainment, National, Opinion, Practical Politics
The now politics of Ye
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is back to his game of displaying public blasphemy again. We remember his rather recent clowning for Trump, or ‘playin the coon […]
Posted inOpinion, Practical Politics
The politics of letting loose the furies of sports gambling in California
To be clear, at present, the state of California legally bans sports betting. That does not mean no one in the state bets on sports. California is a big-time sports […]
Posted inOpinion
Moving toward Nov. 8 in crisis
While America is caught in the crises of the pandemic, fires, floods, heat and drought, much of this is just an addon for so many of us who were already […]
