(Akiit.com) The figure on real poverty in America is far worse than the Census Bureau recently reported. It found that nearly 40 million Americans are living in official poverty (less than $22,000 for a family of four). This is an 11 year high. The Bureau figure does not take into ...
(Akiit.com) Colt 45 Malt Liquor’s advertising isn’t working for the city of Detroit… I was riding down Gratiot Street in Detroit this past May, on a city bus, when my eyes climbed up and fell upon the most blatantly absurd balls-out chunk of mendacity I have seen in long, long ...
(Akiit.com) In Part II of the series, we look at corporate exploitation of Black male sexuality to sell alcohol. It all started out well enough. Prohibition had been repealed, but the Great Depression came right on its heels. Just when you could finally have a drink, nobody could afford to ...
(Akiit.com) In the final installment, we look at the state of malt liquor and how our communities can win the battle of the bottle. IT TAKES TWO In the 1960’s, cigarette advertisers figured out that Black smokers preferred menthol cigarettes to non mentholated brands and heavily promoted them in Black ...
(Akiit.com) Need to get outside more, as I can see the pounds adding up… Yes no longer on the skinny side, as I can eat for days now… May be alittle depress, and need to seek help… Or I could buy diet pills which shall help me lose weight literally… ...
(Akiit.com) In the epilogue to the 1980s televised mini-series Shaka Zulu, advisers to Great Britain’s Queen Victoria are quoted as saying: “the colonial office suggests that we constitute within the Zulu kingdom a progressive destruction and dislocation of the military and economic system. In so doing, we feel that the ...
(Akiit.com) It’s happening everywhere: • In Toms River, N.J., five high-school students were charged with beating a 50-year-old homeless man nearly to death with pipes and baseball bats — throwing hockey pucks at him for good measure — as he slept in the woods. • In Butte, MT, a 53-year-old ...
(Akiit.com) Part II of the series looks at corporate exploitation of the homeless and some of the reasons why the homeless are targeted for violence. GEE, THANKS. NOW BEAT IT. Oenyamaechi assured me that it was not the library’s policy to pummel its patrons and that he would look into ...
(Akiit.com) In Part II of the series we looked at corporate exploitation of the homeless. In Part III, we continue. You haven’t seen anything until you have seen The Bum Hunter. The Bum Hunter is a sick parody of Steve Irwin’s Crocodile Hunter, only the Bum Hunter hunts bums. He ...
(Akiit.com) In the final installment of the series, we get real about where all this is really coming from. WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT The recent collapse of the American dream has revealed the ugly truth, that a society that worships money, material possessions, youth and beauty is ...