(Akiit.com) Much is made of the fact that liberals and conservatives see racial issues differently, which they do. But these differences have too often been seen as simply those on the right being racist and those on the left not. You can cherry-pick the evidence to reach that conclusion. But ...
(Akiit.com) I was recently made very proud, and also very humbled, by receiving the Ronald Reagan Award, given at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference by the American Conservative Union. Regarding the award, ACU says: “The winners of this award, our highest honor, are not household names, but the men ...
(Akiit.com) Since the founding of the United States the construction of race and racial inequality has had economics at its foundation. Economic development and accumulation was the driving force behind the genocide against Indigenous peoples on this continent and the mass enslavement of African people. From these great original sins, ...
(Akiit.com) The primaries march on, with Donald Trump in the lead. But he doesn’t have a lock on the Republican Party nomination. He needs to win more than half of the remaining delegates, no easy task while facing his two toughest opponents. But apparently he’s afraid to share a stage ...
(Akiit.com) For the last 40 year’s government policies aimed at African Americans have helped create crumbling, crime ridden, drug invested, urban communities with little to no real job or educational opportunities. Low income rural areas have been forgotten. If African Americans think the solution is to vote as usual for ...
(Akiit.com) With the Democratic primary season upon us, political pundits have wondered whether Hillary Clinton will enjoy the same enthusiastic support from the African-American community in her presidential bid that President Barack Obama received. Others have wondered whether she actually deserves the same level of allegiance from African-American voters. Based ...
(Akiit.com) The conventional wisdom is that the GOP candidate who poses the far greater peril than Donald Trump can’t possibly win the GOP presidential nomination, and would have absolutely no chance in a general election. The result is that few have actually taken the time to closely scrutinize Ted Cruz’s ...
(Akiit.com) I once heard Al Sharpton say that if you were not getting arrested during the 1960s in America, he would have to question your leadership around racial justice issues. While I do not often agree with Sharpton, I full heartedly agree with that statement. So, this begs the question: ...
(Akiit.com) Most people do not understand the differences between Sunni and Shia Islam. For that reason, we wanted to set the record straight today by presenting you with some excellent information. We’ll try to keep things as simple as possible because there is no need to overcomplicate the situation. Also, ...
(Akiit.com) Here are two scenarios on January 20, 2017. That’s the first day on the job for the 45th president of the U.S. Scenario one. President Sanders or Clinton, unlike President Obama on his first day on the job, are faced with a GOP controlled House and a GOP controlled ...
(Akiit.com) When it’s all said and done, and the 2016 political season has come to an end – two things will have assuredly happened. First, we will have elected a new President of the United States. Second, the tone of electoral politics will have changed forever in the United States. ...
(Akiit.com) Bernie Sanders has a 100 percent rating from the NAACP. He endorsed the presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson in both 1984 and 1988. He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King. He was a member of both the Congress on Racial Equality and the anti-racist Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in ...