(Akiit.com) Racism is not an either/or proposition. When did the R-word become as offensive as the N-word? During the presidential campaign, then-Sen. Joe Biden made an off-the-cuff observation that his rival, then-Sen. Barack Obama was “… clean …” and “… articulate …” Then Don Imus slurred the Rutgers University’s women’s ...
(Akiit.com) I was as shocked as the rest of America to hear that Michael Vick has been signed by the Philadelphia Eagles. Although I’ve always supported Vick’s human right to fairness, I never thought he’d be back on the field so fast. I was honestly happy to see him get ...
(Akiit.com) I first spotted the ghoulish, macabre face on the poster with the word “socialism†slapped underneath it on wallboards and on an occasional freeway onramp girder around Los Angeles last April. From time to time the poster would pop up (really more a crude handbill) on walls and even ...
(Akiit.com) Just amazed at overly obese our youth are these days… Rarely do I see average kid walking around… Yeah If I was there parents, I would give them some weight loss pills… Just kidding as adults only need to be taking that stuff… Still we as a nation is ...
(Akiit.com) The sun shining as it’s a great day to play alittle golf… I may need to call up a few of my buddies… Yes head to the local golf course, and have alittle fun… Relax, and of course chit chat about family, etc… Well I see the PGA Championship ...
(Akiit.com) One day, America will truly free itself of the chains of its racist past. But this country is a long way from the “post-racial era†that some proclaimed after the election of Barack Obama as the first African American U.S. president. Even Obama acknowledged that in his speech last ...
(Akiit.com) W.E.B. Dubois famously wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line.” This historical reality was dramatized, in Technicolor, in the film Across 110th Street: On one side of he street was the Harlem ghetto and all its poverty; on the other side, ...
(Akiit.com) It’s been weeks since his arrest, but here we are still shouting about what happened that fateful day in Cambridge, Mass. And while it is somewhat striking that the murders of Oscar Grant and Sean Bell failed to generate anywhere near the same level of national attention as the ...
(Akiit.com) We all want a president who takes the time to hear about and understand the everyday struggles we face. But that is exactly what the president failed to do when he took up the issue of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a Cambridge police ...
(Akiit.com) In the age of Obama, the arrest of a prominent Black Harvard Professor on the steps of his own home was sure to ignite a discussion about the state of race relations in America. Upon his return from an overseas trip Henry Louis Gates and his driver were attempting ...