Racial gap is still huge in America…

Tweet (Akiit.com) One day, America will truly free itself of the chains of its racist past. But this country is a long way from the “post-racial era” that some proclaimed after the election of Barack Obama as the first African American U.S. president. Even Obama acknowledged that in his speech last month in New York […]

Race in America: We are still not a colorless society…

Tweet (Akiit.com) W.E.B. Dubois famously wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line.” This historical reality was dramatized, in Technicolor, in the film Across 110th Street: On one side of he street was the Harlem ghetto and all its poverty; on the other side, the plush affluence of […]

Taking Our Cues From Martin…

Tweet (Akiit.com) It’s been weeks since his arrest, but here we are still shouting about what happened that fateful day in Cambridge, Mass. And while it is somewhat striking that the murders of Oscar Grant and Sean Bell failed to generate anywhere near the same level of national attention as the Gates-Crowley affair, it is […]

Obama flunks his “teachable moment”…

Tweet (Akiit.com) We all want a president who takes the time to hear about and understand the everyday struggles we face. But that is exactly what the president failed to do when he took up the issue of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a Cambridge police officer. Rather than use […]

Other Than That Professor Gates, How Was Your Trip?

Tweet (Akiit.com) In the age of Obama, the arrest of a prominent Black Harvard Professor on the steps of his own home was sure to ignite a discussion about the state of race relations in America. Upon his return from an overseas trip Henry Louis Gates and his driver were attempting to open the front […]

Obama’s Gates Trainwreck…

Tweet (Akiit.com) The stock basketball one liner came to mind when I heard President Obama utter his now infamous “acting stupid” line referring to the cuffing of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. The star player takes a wild shot and the livid coach screams “no,” “no” “no” and then when the improbable happens and the […]

Forgiving Michael Vick…

Tweet (Akiit.com) Look, I know that what former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick did. He financed and allegedly took great pleasure in running a dogfighting ring. And I know that now that he’s been reinstated by the NFL and cleared to play in October, there will be a firestorm of controversy about why professional football […]

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