(Akiit.com) I’ve written about the importance of judges a few times over the last year. And every time I do, I realize that many people have never met a judge. Or they have, but it was at a time when they’d rather have been anywhere else. So the idea that ...
(Akiit.com) One of legendary comedian and social activist Dick Gregory’s off told jokes about Blacks and suicide went like this. “Whites when they want to do away with themselves jump out of a window in a tall building. Blacks when they want to do the same jump out of a ...
(Akiit.com) Autumn Robeson Monahan is a 17-year-old Black girl attending high school in Slaton, Texas. The senior, who transferred to Slaton High School when her parents relocated there from Ohio, hoped to be her high school valedictorian based on her stellar grades. Instead, she was subjected to regular, vile, racist ...
(Akiit.com) There may be better ways to disrespect African leaders than President Joe Biden’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit earlier this month, but if there are, they do not readily come to mind. Summit diplomacy is a term characteristically used to describe face-to-face negotiations between heads of state; for example, the 1961 ...
(Akiit.com) 2022 is about to end, and still no answer to the question: What caused the virus that’s killed 1,096,000 Americans so far? The Washington Post asks, “What is China hiding?” The more answerable question is what is our own government hiding? House Republicans are promising that when they assume ...
(Akiit.com) “There is an epidemic of hate facing our country. We’re seeing a rapid rise in antisemitic rhetoric and acts. Let me be clear: Words matter. People are no longer saying the quiet parts out loud. They are literally screaming them.” These are the opening remarks second gentleman Doug Emhoff ...
(Akiit.com) Last week, Donald Trump finally crossed the Rubicon. That is, he took to his social media platform and, for the first time, issued an explicit call to abolish the U.S. Constitution — the document he once swore to “preserve, protect and defend.” Still fuming over widespread election cheating that exists ...
(Akiit.com) At a time when it’s hard to imagine how things in America can get worse, it seems President Joe Biden is on a crusade to drive our nation into the abyss. We learned Thursday Women’s National Basketball Association player Brittney Griner was released from a Russian prison after being ...
(Akiit.com) If you haven’t watched Sen. Raphael Warnock’s speech on the night of his reelection in Georgia on December 6, stop everything you’re doing, and watch it now. Then tell your kids to watch it. And your neighbors. What you’ll see is 20 minutes that will leave you with a ...
(Akiit.com) The right is positively giddy over the so-called Twitter files. House Republicans called a press conference to declare that their very top priority will be investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop. Rep. Elise Stefanik promised in July that if given the majority, Republicans would get “accountability” from the “Biden crime family.” ...
(Akiit.com) New Twitter owner Elon Musk gave reporter Matt Taibbi access to internal Twitter documents about the media platform’s decision to spike the Hunter Biden laptop story and about how “the Biden team” had a direct pipeline to Twitter executives. Taibbi tweeted: “By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete ...
(Akiit.com) Team Trump has sometimes compared former President Donald Trump‘s current quest for a non-sequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids.Cleveland remains our only elected president (1884) to have lost a reelection bid (1888) – in a disputed vote – only to be reelected four ...