(Akiit.com) International trade figures heavily in the presidential race. Presidential candidate Donald Trump said, “Hillary Clinton unleashed a trade war against the American worker when she supported one terrible trade deal after another – from NAFTA to China to South Korea.” And adding, “A Trump Administration will end that war by ...
(Akiit.com) A friend of mine was conducting a diversity class for a group of police officers, mostly White, in a northern Ohio city. All was going well until he said, “Let’s talk about ‘Black Lives Matter.” He said the room exploded. The officers were offended that he would bring up the ...
(Akiit.com) With a woman heading the ticket of the Democratic Party, it may be challenging for us to remember that women have had the right to vote for less than a century (and Black folks less that). But the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote was ratified ...
(Akiit.com) Hillary Clinton is doing what Democrats should have been doing all along and that’s looking and sounding and, if given the chance, acting like FDR. This means going big, big, big and fully using government to radically ramp up new programs and initiatives to tackle everything from the nation’s ...
(Akiit.com) Since Donald Trump effectively won the Republican Party nomination by winning the New York primary in May, keeping up with every outrageous statement and small lie and Big Lie he utters has become even more difficult. Instead of becoming “more presidential,” as he and his aides promised then, he’s ...
(Akiit.com) Early 20th century modernism ignored classical rules of expression. But late 20th century postmodernism blew up those rules altogether. Barack Obama was a modernist candidate. He turned out vast numbers of young and minority voters, mastered new social media, and in 2008 overturned the old-guard Democratic furniture such as ...
(Akiit.com) The North Carolina NAACP President, Rev. William Barber, tore it up and then threw down in a powerful speech at the Democratic National Convention on July 28th. He called on those assembled to be a “moral defibrillator of our time,” to shock our nation with the power of love and ...
(Akiit.com) The Black Lives Matter Movement has an historic opportunity for unique 21st Century strategic community and political leadership. How they apply and exercise such leadership could potentially make it one of THE most important engines for meaningful social, economic and political justice for decades to come. They recently released a ...
(Akiit.com) A guiding principle for physicians is primum non nocere, the Latin expression for “first, do no harm.” In order not to do harm, whether it’s with medicine or with public policy, the first order of business is accurate diagnostics. Racial discrimination is seen as the cause of many problems ...
(Akiit.com) By now, everyone has seen the video of a man in North Miami, Fla. – an unarmed Black man trying to calm a patient with autism – on the ground, his hands up, warding off police. Charles Kinsey was working with a patient who had a toy gun in ...
(Akiit.com) There was a time that character mattered; but apparently if you are Hillary Clinton, being a liar, an avowed corruptor of justice, with a lifelong career of undermining the rule of law you are viewed as presidential material. There is no acceptable or remotely justifiable reason for Hillary Clinton ...
(Akiit.com) Thursday night in Cleveland, Ohio Donald Trump will give the most important speech of his campaign, hot off the heels of his wife’s speech mishap. Trump’s speech will be dynamic, energetic and controversial. In his unconventional campaign, Trump has utilized his public relations skills like few if any before him. Donald ...