A Black Guy’s Defense of the Constitution.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Recently a leftist journalist from The Nation named Elie Mystal referred to the U.S. Constitution as “trash”. He appeared on The View last Friday to promote his new book “Allow me to Retort: A Black Guys Guide to the Constitution”. This is the ideological battle in which we are engaged in America. Mr. […]

Reflections on Judge Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

Tweet (Akiit.com) President Joe Biden’s nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the Supreme Court seat to be vacated by Associate Justice Stephen Breyer at the conclusion of October Term 2021 has predictably begotten misconceived commentary. For starters, many Democrats insist that the liberal judicial philosophy of Judge Jackson should […]

Happy Women’s History Month.

Tweet (Akiit.com) I don’t know about you, but this past Black History Month was an emotional mixed bag. I like to spend the month of February reflecting on the major accomplishments of Black people, past and present, in the United States and abroad, those who I know and those I will likely never meet. Last […]

Democrats Make Their Priorities Clear.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Senate Democrats ended February insisting on a procedural fight over the Women’s Health Protection Act, to get Republicans on record about the issue during a midterm election year. But if Americans realized just what the Women’s Health Protection Act is about, it should not only backfire as a strategy for the Dems, but […]

Film Review; The Batman.

Tweet (Akiit.com) (***1/2) Crime is rampant in Gotham City. Murders. Manslaughter. Blood soaks the streets. Citizens live in terror and the police are stumped. On desperate nights a Batman signal lights up the sky and the caped man jumps into action, but even he can’t stem the tide: “It’s a big city. I can’t be […]

A Police Officer, A School Teacher & A Cup Cake.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Well America! Here we go again with the madness of law enforcement officers encouraging school teachers to give away cup cakes contaminated with human DNA to elementary and middle schools students who do not have a voice and who are the most vulnerable and abuse in the United States of America. A police […]

Ukrainian Soldiers & Police Officers Are Preventing Black Africans From Leaving The Country.

Tweet (Akiit.com) The war has began in Ukraine with Russian Armed Forces attacking key military, government areas, airports, vital infrastructures that are the life source of the country. These tactics of destroying specific keys areas are the same tactics use by the United State America during their invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, WW2, North Korea […]

That Black Woman; Supreme Court nominee.

Tweet (Akiit.com) In February 2020, few gave full thought or consideration to the pledge that then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made to make a Black woman his first Supreme Court nominee. Of course, any comment made by candidate Biden was subject to political pushback by members of the Trump mob, but I’m not sure that […]

Ranking the Vote Equals Strengthening Our Democracy.

Tweet (Akiit.com) I’ve spent a lifetime ensuring Black people have unfettered access to the ballot box. My mom says I was born into it. She brought me to my first protest at just 6 months old, and by the first grade, my classmates and I had organized our first protest. In the fourth grade, I […]

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