(Akiit.com) Gas prices are off the chart as I can’t believe it now will run one $4 per gallon… If this keeps up you may see alot of people riding the train or whatever to work… Still I love my vehicle and need to change my car insurance policy… Yeah ...
(Akiit.com) Los angeles, California – Three black men sit at a table in the bar area of a Los Angeles restaurant one Saturday afternoon, engaged in animated conversation. One, in a green Ralph Lauren Polo shirt and khakis, looks to be about 50. The other two, card-carrying citizens of the ...
(Akiit.com) The sun is shining and I shall be taking in the summer breeze in a few… The local kids are out of school, and it’s nice to see my neighborhood thriving… Everyone helping out, as it’s nice to see all living in harmony… I have notice recently that my ...
(Akiit.com) Sen. Barack Obama will accept his nomination as the Democratic candidate for president on Aug. 28, exactly 45 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic speech at the March on Washington. For those of us fascinated by such things, the occasion suggests less a coincidence than a ...
(Akiit.com) It’s friday and I’m at home relaxing… Glad I don’t have to go to work in the morning, as I will be playing golf with a few buddies on Sunday… Wife shall be out with her friends, so our house will be quiet for a change… I also will ...
(Akiit.com) Not to my liking it has been hot around here lately… Mid 90’s all week and this seems to be the norm now… Can’t get outside to cut the grass, as I would faint literally after spending so much time in the sun… Still the house is beautiful, although ...
(Akiit.com) Here’s a bet. Accused child pornographer and sexual panderer, R. Kelly has three albums in the can ready for release. If Kelly is convicted of the multiple counts slapped against him in his Chicago trial, the albums will fly out the can fast and even faster off the store ...
(Akiit.com) A question that’s been whispered, grumbled about, and on occasion even angrily shouted out on blogs and chat sites is why is it that the whites who back Hillary Clinton are lambasted as racist, yet the black voters that back Obama in near record numbers aren’t? The question has ...
(Akiit.com) Orlando, Florida – The Black churches here in Orlando from what I see have been ineffective in reaching our younger generation. Look at who is filling the seats of the congregation and pews of our local houses of worship. You see nothing but women (single, widowed and divorced), older ...
(Akiit.com) Huntsville, Alabama – Last semester one of my students dropped by for an office visit and, to my great surprise and annoyance, sex came up, again and again. Yes, sex. Like when, sensing his restlessness and wistfulness, I asked him how he finds “peace” so that he can achieve ...
(Akiit.com) I’ve got two words for white America: Thank you. Thanks for building homes in poor communities through programs such as Habitat for Humanity; for working with HIV/AIDS relief programs in places such as sub-Saharan Africa. Thanks for mobilizing the Innocence Project, which is freeing wrongly convicted prisoners, many of ...
(Akiit.com) Shukura Sentwali is going home — to Ghana, West Africa. Sentwali, a Wichitan and longtime community activist, said she’s moving to Africa next year because two Ghanaian chiefs are offering free land to descendants of slaves. The gesture means to atone for Ghana’s participation in the African slave trade, ...