(Akiit.com) If one accepts the fact that there’s no excuse or rationale for abject hatred that promotes or justifies the murder of any human being, then the hate-based murder of 49 innocent souls in Orlando is incomprehensible. That massacre, and others, represents a stain on our national consciousness and blight ...
(Akiit.com) Colorism: You’re Cute To Be Dark There was a time in my life when I didn’t lovingly embrace my dark skin. During my adolescent years, I was under the impression that lighter meant better. To me, lighter skin equaled automatic beauty and popularity. It wasn’t until I was much ...
(Akiit.com) Yesterday, June 16th, marked one year since Jeffrey Sterling began his 3.5 year prison sentence for divulging classified information to a New York Times journalist, a crime he did not commit. One year he was deprived of the freedom that so many of us take for granted every day; ...
(Akiit.com) As Fathers Day approaches, I would like to share some of the challenges, struggles, and the joys of being a father. From our child’s first step, to their first date a father’s relationship with his children is a very special one. The importance of a father’s role in shaping ...
(Akiit.com) Once again, the repulsive face of terror has appeared on our homeland, our own soil. It is not a headline in the news about what has happened in some other place in the world. Once again, we see the blood of our own countrymen shed at the hands of ...
(Akiit.com) One year ago, a white supremacist shot and killed nine parishioners at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A little less than a week ago, another shooter consumed with hate shot and killed 49 people at the Pulse night club in Orlando, Florida, wounding 53 more. Overwhelmed ...
(Akiit.com) There is a big problem in our educational system, and it is persistent. Black children are being kicked out of school more than White children on a regular basis and in large numbers, according to a white paper co-authored by the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), titled, “The ...
(Akiit.com) Beyond communication, there are several reasons why speaking English in America is beneficial: doing so promotes assimilation, unity and success. So why would the Obama administration issue a joint policy statement from his departments of Education and Health and Human Services advising educators to instruct children in the language ...
(Akiit.com) However great the shock of the massacre in Orlando, it is only a matter of time before we start hearing again the fact-free dogma that “diversity is our strength.” If there is any place in the Guinness Book of World Records for words repeated the most often, over the ...
(Akiit.com) What Constitutional authority gives Obama the power to dictate that all schools in the United States make their bathrooms available to everyone according to their self-proclaimed so-called gender identity juxtaposed to the biological sex they were born? What Constitutional authority allows Obama to deny funds to schools that refuse ...
(Akiit.com) Muhammad Ali was, among other things, a proud Black man. He embraced his Blackness, and often referred to it. He is often quoted for saying he had no quarrel with the Vietcong, but less frequently quoted for saying, in the very next sentence, “the Vietcong never called me a ...
(Akiit.com) “If not for the teachers that I had at PS 276 in Canarsie and Mark Twain Junior High School in Coney Island, New York, I would not be alive today. Maybe I’d be in jail today. But those teachers, they chose to invest in me and to see hope ...