(Akiit.com) Sarah Palin admittedly hasn’t had much of a track record when it comes to acknowledging let alone promoting diversity during her short tenure as Alaska governor. She’s on record with a terse utterance on hate crimes legislation and another one on cultural diversity. During the 2006 gubernatorial campaign she ...
(Akiit.com) O.J. Simpson and his attorney loudly complained that the jury in his Las Vegas robbery trial has no blacks on it. But there was never much doubt that it would. That’s the kind of jury that most minority defendants get in Clark County courts. He’s fortunate though that he ...
(Akiit.com) So glad it’s friday, as I shall relax… Just enjoy the breeze while having the house all to myself… Watch a little tv, and so on… Will not being heading outside because of the sun, as I have notice acne on my face lately… The harmful rays is doing ...
(Akiit.com) As I was preparing for an interview with R&B crooner Brian McKnight several years ago, I had a very interesting experience. On my way home from work I stopped at Walgreen’s drugstore to pick up some batteries and film for my camera and mentioned to one of the young ...
(Akiit.com) 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. What a powerful sermon the young pastor preached today about that four letter word that begins with “Fâ€. That special word that has robbed so ...
(Akiit.com) The saying goes, “Our children are our futureâ€, but what if our children don’t outlive us? Frightening statistics tell the story. According to The American Obesity Association, 30% of kids ages 6-11 are overweight and 15% are obese, setting them up for increased risk for diabetes, asthma, high blood ...
(Akiit.com) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made one speech in March to damp down the furor over his relationship with his controversial former pastor Jeremiah Wright. He made another speech at the NAACP convention in July. Other than those two speeches he has not uttered another word about racial issues ...
(Akiit.com) Like many I need a vacation… Need to head over to Wimco as I heard there were a few new Barbados villa rentals listings… Would love to head out of the country… Literally free my mind while enjoying the beach… Yeah the wife and kids would love that also… ...
(Akiit.com) I received a rather rude email from a local minister who took umbrage with my failure to support Barack Obama for president. I was disappointed that rather than do what Jesus would have done and offer a reasoned and well-thought out rebuttal to my column, this man of the ...
(Akiit.com) Maybe if I didn’t know the history of how this country came to be. Maybe if I wasn’t keenly aware of how we came to be here in this country to begin with. Maybe if the first ship arriving with its precious human cargo to this country hadn’t been ...
(Akiit.com) In a 2007 interview with the editorial board of Washington Post, Senator Joseph Biden offered these thoughts on the racial achievement gap in education, “There’s less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four or five percent that are ...
(Akiit.com) What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” —Sir John Lubbock In America, far too many people make claims about what exists without investigating any further than their own small circles. They then take those broad assumptions and pretend that the assumption is reality for all of ...