(Akiit.com) The sun shining as it’s a great day to play alittle golf… I may need to call up a few of my buddies… Yes head to the local golf course, and have alittle fun… Relax, and of course chit chat about family, etc… Well I see the PGA Championship ...

(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 ...

(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, ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

(Akiit.com) What Do You Call A Black Man At Harvard? Years ago, the answer to this question would be the n-word. Today it’s Esquire, Doctor, Congressman, Professor or President. Unfortunately, the police in Cambridge did not receive that memo before they arrested Harvard Professor, Skip Gates, as he was treated ...

(Akiit.com) When a wide receiver in football is called to go over the middle to catch a pass and the pass is one that would force the player to extend their arms to complete the reception three things happen. The thought that the player clearly has is that they will ...