(Akiit.com) We’re familiar with the metaphor “thinking outside the box.” which means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective. But the metaphor presumes the box is serviceable. Suppose the box is functionally obsolete, has outlived its usefulness, just doesn’t work anymore. This means, you need a new box. ...
(Akiit.com) As a lifelong student of history, I believe that past is prologue and I tend to rely on history to help inform my decisions in public life. I often paraphrase George Santayana, who is credited with having said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ...
(Akiit.com) It’s been six weeks now. The ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks have come and gone. There were memorials. The names of the nearly 3,000 victims killed in the attacks were read and memorialized— again. American flags waved. Twenty years later, we still don’t know the ...
(Akiit.com) Here lately, I’ve come to clearly understand that some things that serve us well in the natural world often work against us in the spiritual one. It is an ironic realization one must make upon their own personal faith walk. Independence, ego, self-reliance, ‘never say die’ attitude, talent, drive ...
(Akiit.com) We often find excitement in the revival of the bones found in Ezekiel 37:1-10. Yet I want to look at the text of verse 4 a little closer. It says: “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!’” After bringing Ezekiel ...
(Akiit.com) It’s a new day. In 2021 the New York Film Festival was live and in-person and exhibited a wide array of international films that broke new ground, featured veteran Black actors at their best and blockbusters that will be in movie theaters and on streaming services later this year or early ...
(Akiit.com) It’s a farewell. An elongated sendoff James Bond fans will instinctively desire. And they should. As should any action film enthusiast who likes a dash of style mixed in with their adrenaline-rush martini. James Bond (Daniel Craig) has retired from the game and MI6. He is not happy when ...
(Akiit.com) The instant the news broke from Bend, Oregon that 22-year-old Barry Washington was shot dead by Ian Cranston in a bar dispute the messages, emails and calls poured into the Deschutes County District Attorney’s office. They all said one thing: remember Emmett Till. Till’s lynch murder in 1955 in ...
(Akiit.com) The war on terror was codified after the attack on our nation on September 1, 2001, with the institutionalization of the Patriot Act and establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. Theoretically, this agency would be aimed at confronting attacks on the U.S. from abroad. My have things changed since then. ...
(Akiit.com) Sometimes, I wonder what is wrong with Black America and my African American brothers and sisters? We still have not learned from the past and we continue to make the same mistakes over and over again; even though, racist white America continues to piss, defecate, stomped, humiliate, beat, assault, ...
(Akiit.com) In an attempt to increase the white population and maintain white political control, the city of Atlanta expanded its borders northward to include the once rural area called Bulkhead. This successful annexation was made in 1952 under Mayor William Hartfield’s “Plan of Improvement”. Today, Atlanta is a far different ...
(Akiit.com) One of the best documentaries I’ve watched on Jim Jones and Jonestown was made by Stanley Nelson Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple. It chronicles the events and people involved with Jones San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple and ending with what culminated in Jonestown, Guyana ...