The call for Black lives to matter is on the whole a good thing. My problem is that like charity, affirmative action and religious impulses to proselytize, they are better served starting out at home! Loving as Jesus was (and is reputed to be), even he said he came to house of Israel first; that is to say his own. Let me repeat, my Negroid brothers and sisters that affirmative action, charity and religious proselytizing start at home. Indeed can we make the argument that White folks should affirm us (economically, politically, culturally) when we don’t affirm ourselves? Can I…

*As regards metro Atlanta politics, bureaucracy and Buckhead; while incompetence is better than corruption neither will keep the kingdom in your hands long. Slap the both of them together and you are doomed. *The current crop of Black and White politicians in Georgia and perhaps America are confused by the idea that what ‘merits’ a public servant is passing the background check or the credit score check. It’s ok that those ‘variables’ may keep you out of public service but the crime in American politics is that we think simply passing them means one has what it takes to be…

Crime, the stain of the Negro and the surface reason white folk claim they don’t want you in their neighborhoods or our children going to their schools in too great a number. And now in the wake of George Floyd and BLM we walked right out and gave White folk the very bailiwick with which to hurl insults at us and make insinuations about our competence and even intelligence. Imagine our country assed Republican Governor Kemp lecturing urban Atlanta about its ‘crime problem’? And his logic that it’s because not only has the anti-police atmosphere created by BLM taken over…

I’ll begin this essay with a crude story. Most of my readers know that I’m not averse to using other people’s or my own crude stories. This is because sanitized stories often lose their punch and instead of being food for thought it’s like going to a Tapas restaurant with 5 other niggers and noting there isn’t enough ‘tapas’. No one enjoys it because abundance is a full 1/2 of one’s sense of wellbeing. If it was not so prosperity preaching would not have told us so for the past 50 years. Oddly enough, America is worse off in nearly…

Have you ever been scrolling through YouTube videos and boxing matches and MMA fights come up; and street fights and brawls pop up. The key to your time on the video is A) the amount of time it takes to get to the knockout punch and B) how dramatically effective the knock out punch is. Keisha, Stacy and Fani are in danger of in the words of proverbial Youtubes of this nature, ‘getting knocked the fuck out’. In all honesty I haven’t had time to reflect on Keisha quitting on us and leaving us in the lurch (us being Black…

No hyperbole or writer’s license necessary, my first conscious memory was at Greenbriar mall. I was pre-school age and my mom took me to an Easter breakfast program circa 1974 when Rich’s had a restaurant on the second floor that overlooked the mall. My mother and I watched the program from the floor of the mall because of crowd. We couldn’t get into the restaurant but I know there was an Easter Bunny taking pictures and walking around. After the event was over I went to pre-school at the KinderCare on Fairburn Rd. That experience at Greenbriar Mall and KinderCare…

The white south was so dependent on slavery ideologically and culturally that it nearly completely ignored finance capitalism, manufacturing, technological innovation, industrial innovation and the legal and wage labor benefits and tools that come along with them. The very same elitist cultural forces that kept Black people ignorant and illiterate (in an academic sense) kept large swathes of poor white people ignorant and illiterate and more or less incapable of taking advantage of economic innovations in the North and the rest of the 19th century world. If for no other reason than a mistake by white pre-1860 leadership of that…

It’s really white people’s fault that Ninjas are running around tearing down statues of white confederate history. When any people erases its own history for ANY reason, you are dealing with a very wounded individual people. Someone has been torn down, abused, mocked, demeaned and used when your self esteem is so low that you want to rewrite history and the history of a place because it makes you feel uncomfortable. History itself (that is to say reality itself) is thus some kind of aggression or micro aggression to you that you cannot bear or tolerate to be reminded of?…

Lessons from Atlanta Street Racing Let’s begin with a series of assumptions. Southern country white folk love car racing and NASCAR. Their attachment to it is legendary. As a matter of fact the legends of car racing reads like a deep white country list of biblical patriarchs and their families; Richard Petty, Al Unser, Bobby Allison, Bill Elliot, Earnhardt, Wallace, etc. Auto racing has a whole history and ‘thing’ (for lack of a better word) behind it. From stock cars, to Formula 1 to drag racers, to trucks, motorcycles and even go karts, being a child of urban Atlanta I…

I have no problems with female leadership, political or otherwise. The thing to contemplate however is that it is one thing to lead the basketball team because you are 6’1” and everyone else is 5’10”. It is quite another matter to lead the team because you actually have skills. Do you actually have skills or are you just 6’1” and simply the tallest person they could find to build a team around that ‘looks’ competitive on the court? I’m going to offer some hints although I do not want this to be interpreted as a critique of Black Women. I…