(Akiit.com) It is hard to believe that anyone would use the tragic earthquake in Haiti as an opportunity to spew racist hate speech. In light of the devastation in that island nation, who would exploit the victims’ suffering for political points, make fun of them, and blame them for their ...
(Akiit.com) Sometimes questions are commands. When we ask “Could you open the window?” we are not inquiring as to whether the person is physically capable of performing the action. We are politely telling them to open the window. In the same way, the question the media has been asking over ...
(Akiit.com) Revolution is a curious thing. Some claim to be revolutionaries or about a revolution, but ignore the root word “evolution,†which means that there must be some growth and progressive development taking place in order to have an intrinsic revolution. For example, the so-called “Sexual Revolution†in America was ...
(Akiit.com) It looks like the word “Negro” is back in style these days, for better or for worse. And it appears that white Americans are most eager to blow off the dust and put the term to use. It all started in 2007 when Rush Limbaugh began playing a song ...
(Akiit.com) Lately I seem to oversleeping as my body has worn down… Yes lack of exercising has taken a toll on me literally… I miss being able to jump around at will… Yes playing with the kids without every getting tired, etc… Well let me read over this cure for ...
(Akiit.com) Well college football has officially become professional as coaches seem to be jumping ship lately… Yes chasing after the money and could care less about their team… I thought many was about nurturing the next generation but that doesn’t seem to be the case… Anyway I must pick up ...
(Akiit.com) Technological changes in the last decade made it so that you could fit your entire music collection, thousands of songs, into a contraption the size of a credit card. But beyond the boom of MP3 players, iTunes and the Internet, pop music itself changed dramatically, especially the sounds that ...
(Akiit.com) Have you heard the census is still calling us Negroes? This sentence popped up on my Gchat window from a concerned colleague. While for many this would set off a firestorm of concern, as a sociologist, I was not surprised, confused, nor concerned. I know the census has the ...
(Akiit.com) There is a certain irony in listening to white men complain of being “oppressed.†Essentially, they hate on nearly every group that is unlike themselves, yet complain about being hated. Some Black women are following that lead. While hating on Black men at every turn, a specific type of ...
(Akiit.com) Think Gilbert Arenas may have taken his ‘Agent Zero’ persona just a bit too much to heart? Certainly these are sobering and soul searching times for the three-time NBA All-Star, who – much like the character from the 1960’s hit song ‘Secret Agent Man’ that bore his alter ego ...