For Afrikan Americans, the struggle for freedom, justice, and equality has seen the rise of great men and women of vision. And though there have been many such leaders and their ideologies, in our 400-year battle, no leader or ideology has sustained their impetus long enough to change our reality significantly. As each new hope … Read more
Even before the war, the majority of the world realized that the Bush administration was using falsehoods and fear to ‘herd’ the American people into an illegal war. It was clear and had been clear since 1998 that Iraq had no means to wage a war with “weapons of mass destruction” and in fact as … Read more
“Skid Row”, ditching and making sure I had at least $4.00 Friday night. I look back fondly on four finger bags and .50 cent singles; going to school broke, coming back with nickels, pennies, quarters, dimes and dollars. All fruit of that days work. Now, I vaguely recall Senior Prom, never saw a Homecoming half-time … Read more
June 21, 2014 (The Summer Solstice) Being the change you want to see in the world. It’s lawn weekend. It’s been two weeks and the grass is calling to be mowed and trimmed … but … I hate cutting grass! I know it is a wasteful practice and I realized (in mid-mow) that a grass … Read more
Submitted by fjk on Sat, 06/28/2008 – 1:36pm I took the long way home today after dropping my son off at his summer job. I did this despite the cost of gasoline and the contribution I would be making to the filthy air of the Inland Empire on this pointless ‘ride’. Sometime during this ‘ride’, … Read more
That lyric is running through my head; “The sun’ll come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there’ll be sun.” At this point I have to point out that even in sunny California, with the rain we’ve gotten this winter I’d be reluctant to “bet” my “bottom” dollar on sun. But, somewhere, it’s a … Read more
Let me begin by stating an undeniable fact; we, the Black nation in America, bear the sole responsibility for ending the evils that plague us today in America. Now be careful how you read that statement. I am not saying we are the creators or the cause of the evils. But until we take it … Read more
Life IS hard as fuck sometimes. I know without words exactly how you feel. I hate so much of what “is”, but I have to find a way to change as much of the wrong I see as possible. That means I, WE have to stay here in this world. We may be a couple … Read more
From reading your life, it seems that you are not in control of the relationships you enter into with men. It is usually a situation where you meet someone, and at some point you sleep with them. It doesn’t seem to be something that you have decided or thought about, it just happens. The thing … Read more