Change, resentment and the hate in the air
So this driver is stopped at an intersection. A pedestrian is dawdling in the crosswalk. Driver leans out the window and yells, "Get out of the street, you damned liberal!"...
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Someone should tell Ben Carson slaves were not immigrants
A hypothetical narrative for your consideration: A man climbs through the window of a sleeping girl. She stirs awake and starts to scream, but he punches her with a closed...
The dumbing down of the American voter
"I love the poorly educated!" — Donald Trump "Think! It ain't illegal yet." — Funkadelic It's time we talked about the most consequential political divide in this country. That divide...
‘I had forgotten that I am black’
So I had myself an epiphany. Actually, that's not quite the right word. An epiphany is a moment of sudden clarity, but mine rolled in slowly, like dawn on a...
Godspeed, Mr. President
Dear Mr. President: "Barack Obama is not Jesus." Those were the first words of the first column I ever wrote about you — a poke in the eye to Democrats...
Dear Michelle Obama, you are beautiful in every way
Dear Michelle Obama: This is just a note to say that I think you're gorgeous. I'll thank you not to share that with your husband, given that I have no...
Hillary Clinton offers us a politically correct moment to end sexist language
Let me tell you how I got in trouble with ladies. No, not "the" ladies. Not, in fact, female human beings, period. Rather, I'm talking about the word itself, "ladies."...
Yo, Snoop. History is not obliged to make you feel good.
Dear Snoop Dogg: You could have been honest about it. If you had, I'd still think you wrong as two left shoes, but at least I could give you points...
A white man just can’t catch a break
He brought his rifle up at the sound of footsteps crunching the Oregon snow. "Who goes there? Stop and be recognized." A weary voice answered out of the darkness. "It's...
Tyshawn Lee, ‘Chi-Raq’ and atrocities inflicted from within
So where was the march for Tyshawn Lee? Where were the demonstrators barring access to stores in Chicago's premiere commercial district on the busiest shopping day of the year? Where...