Monthly Archives: January 2013

The observation of the King Holiday is our annual engagement in romanticizing the life of a 20th century prophet and martyr that is troublesome, at best, sacrilege, at worse. How have turned a day of observation into a day celebration is puzzling to me. Exactly what does black America have to celebrate? The re-election of Barack Obama (which we will discuss next week)??? How do we celebrate the decline of a people and the decline of a national community in the 45 years since King was so brutally taken from us. I can’t help but wonder what King would say … Continue reading →

The “fiscal cliff” drama, that threatened across the board cuts to all government spending if a budget reduction solution by December 31st, 2012, took the nation to the brink of emotion. Some suggest, needlessly. Playing a shameless game of chicken, the Republican Party showed they hadn’t learned a damn thing in the spanking they took in November. Being as recalcitrant as ever, their congressional leadership continued to play obstructionist politics with the lives of Americans as the deadline loomed. In fact, they let the deadline pass. America went over the cliff…on a bungee cord…then snapped back before crashing to the … Continue reading →