(Akiit.com) A year ago an exasperated White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the legions of so-called “birthers” that are adamant that President Obama is an illegal alien and should be dumped from the White House will never go away. A year later, the president celebrates his 49th birthday, ...
(Akiit.com) As the president’s poll numbers sag among whites and other Americans, conservatives claim that racial allegiance keeps numbers high among African Americans. Here’s what they haven’t factored in… Beginning last week, President Obama’s approval rating is now the lowest it’s ever been, with just 45 percent of Americans saying ...
(Akiit.com) Mostly, yes. But by failing to reform Bush-era laws on housing, the administration has allowed the Crescent City’s recovery to drag. President Barack Obama made a campaign promise that he would not leave New Orleans and the Gulf Coast hanging in their post-Katrina recovery. As the fifth anniversary of ...
(Akiit.com) “Lord I’ve been real stressed; Down and out, losin’ ground Although I am black and proud Problems got me pessimistic” — Arrested Development, “Tennessee”, 1992 As people of color, we are often fond of professing — at least in private — our capacity to overcome all obstacles. And indeed ...
(Akiit.com) Last month, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. While still in the midst of the most severe recession since the Great Depression, this legislation is being hailed as the most ambitious rewriting of the nations financial rules in decades. The Dodd-Frank ...
(Akiit.com) Now that the speculation is over and Wyclef has officially announced his candidacy in Haiti’s presidential race, it’s high time that he be given the presidential treatment. This isn’t the case of putting the cart before the horse, but it is apropos that Wyclef’s past be explored. In the ...
(Akiit.com) The the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great ...
(Akiit.com) If you understand just one thing about the uniting of Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh in Miami, know that it’s not something you are going to see every summer, not by a long shot. Hope you enjoyed all of the suspense of “The Decision,” the hour-long prime-time ...
(Akiit.com) I’m ready for Black Friday, as I need to pick up a few new items… Have some birthdays coming up and this is a nice way to save some money… Will do most of my shopping online at Buy.com… I do need to clean up this pc as it’s ...
(Akiit.com) Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was direct, forceful and blunt when he said that the USDA does not tolerate racial discrimination. This was Vilsack’s widely circulated public explanation for firing Shirley Sherrod. There are two problems with this. One, the world now knows that Sherrod did not do or say ...