The Right Thing To Do, Part 2
Peace.      Yo, I'm back with part 2 of my blog on the "The Right Thing To Do".  Instead of a brotha writing another article I decided to produce a documentary film on police brutality and due process reform. At first I was going to leave the subject alone.  I put in my 2 cents on how people should conduct themself with the
The price of Eurocentrism for non-Europeans
Yes, that is a supermodel...whatever the hell that is. Once again on another social site this pic of "supermodel" Naomi Campbell was posted with the title of "Unbeweavable" in the caption. At first I thought it was a Haitian refugee being rescued from another earthquake but no that's Naomi Campbell. I was like wow, my girl done turned into a Shaoli
The Right Thing To Do
    The "Right" Thing to Do.Part 1      Yo, for the past 8 months the frequency of so-called police brutality incidences in this country has become very alarming.  Young men and women are getting beat up while the old men and women are getting abused.  What's even more disturbing is violent crime is still the high
SAGGIN': NIGGAS spelled backwards, but going in the same direction.
Eugenics strikes again...        85% of the public thinks this fashion statement is something new & original...bullshit!  No it's not original and it's part of a far more bigger plan than people do not wish to believe.  A friend on another social site made a post about Men wearing sagging pants and how it disturbs
Still Cooning: If the Real Jim Crow would have known then
     I ain't gone lie, that Leslie Jones bit on SNL was hilarious!  Seriously, that shit was funny as hell and well performed but most important...truthful.  Be that as it may, it was still COONING.  What's so sad about it is that it still shows and proves that my people still have not got it together.  We still a
Donald Sterling, "The Come Up". The Price of Class at the Cost of Stupidity!
     My man Donald Sterling has completed one of the slickest "Come Ups" in the 21st century.  Yes sir!  Gotta admit playa, you did your thang and I ain't mad at ya.        Yes I'm back!  Now can a brotha write this damn article, please?!   Sheesh!        Yo, Donald Sterling
Paula Deen. Y'all better leave that White lady alone.
     Ok, here we go again.  I already know some of y’all are thinking “Now he going after Paula!”  I’m not at Paula for her for saying Nigga or Nigger.  I wish more people would be literate and “real” about what they feel.  I’m mad at her for apologizing.  If you said it, then you said it.  How come it’s
Can We Talk About It?
You are not alone. The exact same thing that are heavy on your mind has been on the mind of others before. Yet, will you let that be a stepping stone or a boulder the weighs you down? The beauty of the internet is that you can reach out to someone. Free yourself to deal with an issue minus the uncomfortableness of actually exposing your personal is
How Stereotypes and Discrimination Shape Our Reality
  Interview with Amanda Reen   Amanda Reen is a thirty-three year old multiracial woman from rural Wisconsin who resides in the Boston area of Massachusetts with her husband Jeffrey and her daughter Olivia. I had the pleasure to meet Amanda while I was working on the series of interviews about the complex image of the African American wom
Mahogany Keys: The Complex Image of the African American Woman part 7
Interview with Linda Braggs Director/Owner of Serenity for Life Sober Living in Arizona An Arizona native, Linda Braggs is a writer, motivational speaker and creator of Serenity for Life Sober Living. She spent her childhood in Arizona and California and as a young woman she was soon acquainted with the destructive force of addiction that held her
Mahogany Keys: The Complex Image of the African American Woman part 6
Interview with Envy Red – Author Philanthropist and Entrepreneur Danielle Hutchinson also known as “Envy Red” is a Washington, DC area native by way of Birmingham, AL. A two time graduate of the University of Maryland, she resides in Atlanta, GA. with her two boys. She is a cancer survivor whose battle with a rare form of the disease has strengthen
Mahogany Keys: The Complex Image of the African American Woman part 5
Interview with Davida Green-Norris – Attorney and Published Author A successful lawyer, Davida also writes under the pen name Dicey Grenor. She authored Shameful (Taboo fiction) and (The Narcoleptic Vampire Series): Sleepy Willow's Bonded Soul (Vol. 1), Sleepy Willow's Heartless Soul (Vol. 2) and Sleepy Willow's Loosed Soul (Vol. 3) Growing up in a
Mahogany Keys: The Complex Image of the African American Woman part 4
                                                 Interview with Lemelia Johnson Bonner – writer Lemelia Bonner is a novice writer of creative fiction and non-fiction, and a professional mother. She lives with her teen daughte
Mahogany Keys: The Complex Image of the African American Man.Part 3.The Black Man as a Protector
   The Black Man as a Protector                                                                                    Pretend you are walking towards home or towards a store entrance and you walk past an African American male. How many of you assume that he must be a bad man seeking to harm you rather than someone who could save your life? Sadly, most
Mahogany Keys: The Complex Image of the African American Woman 3
Interview with Luna Charles Director of Hardcastle Enterprises Corp. and Author Born in Haiti and a resident of South Florida for the last twenty one years, Luna is a self-published author and the Director of Hardcastle Enterprises Corp., a business she created to help people realize the full potential that they have within themselves.  The ol
Mahogany Keys: The Complex Image of the African American Woman part 2
 Interview with Imani Wisdom Author, Entrepreneur, Blogger Imani Wisdom has been writing since the tender age of eight as a young lyricist. Later her love for words blossomed to short stories and to what she loves doing to this date, storytelling. Born to a public school teacher and a manufacturer for the local paper, Imani is the mother to tw
A failed system, or is it?
    Above is a picture of Frederico Bruno, he is accused of pushing his ex-girlfriend and 3 month old child out of a window three stories high.  He climbs down from the same window, finds a metal bar stool leg and beats her with it as she is lying on top of the 3 month old baby who broke her fall to a concrete ground.  Read that over again.  Take a
Mahogany Keys: The Complex Image of the African American Woman
When I started this series of interviews many cautioned me that black people would not want to talk to me. Wrong. As a matter of fact, after I started sending out emails, expressing my intentions to write about these issues, the positive response was overwhelming. To be honest, people of color talked to me a long time ago, in various workplace sett
Mahogany Keys: The Complex Image of the African American Male Part V
Interview with Quentin J. Tyson – Author and Documentary Filmmaker Quentin J. Tyson age 36 aka Qwest Allah of the Nation of Gods & Earths.  First born in the year of Born Understanding & disciple of Timothy Muhammad of Medina (Brooklyn NY).  Quentin or Qwest (NGE) is a New Orleans native who attended NGE & NOI classes in New O
Who's blowing smoke? Do you still support the story?
Where were you on September 11, 2001? Me? I had just came home from a 6 month Counter Drug Operation deployment in Central and South America. Yes, I was in the military...the navy. I was only home for 2 days and in New Orleans with my first wife buying food for my (step)daughter's birthday party. She was born on September 12, by the way. After the