(Akiit.com) Fox News host Glenn Beck recently compared America under the Obama administration to the Planet of the Apes. Fox News doesn’t like black people, so is it any surprise that blacks don’t tune in? Recently, Think Progress reported that according to the Nielsen ratings, only 29,000 black viewers have ...
(Akiit.com) In the wake of the House Ethics Committee formerly charging Charles Rangel (D-NY) with thirteen ethics violations, another member of congress is poised to have an ethics trial in the House. It has been reported by numerous sources that Congresswoman Maxine Waters will be charged with improperly intervening with ...
(Akiit.com) A year ago an exasperated White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the legions of so-called “birthers” that are adamant that President Obama is an illegal alien and should be dumped from the White House will never go away. A year later, the president celebrates his 49th birthday, ...
(Akiit.com) As the president’s poll numbers sag among whites and other Americans, conservatives claim that racial allegiance keeps numbers high among African Americans. Here’s what they haven’t factored in… Beginning last week, President Obama’s approval rating is now the lowest it’s ever been, with just 45 percent of Americans saying ...
(Akiit.com) Mostly, yes. But by failing to reform Bush-era laws on housing, the administration has allowed the Crescent City’s recovery to drag. President Barack Obama made a campaign promise that he would not leave New Orleans and the Gulf Coast hanging in their post-Katrina recovery. As the fifth anniversary of ...
(Akiit.com) Now that the speculation is over and Wyclef has officially announced his candidacy in Haiti’s presidential race, it’s high time that he be given the presidential treatment. This isn’t the case of putting the cart before the horse, but it is apropos that Wyclef’s past be explored. In the ...
(Akiit.com) Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was direct, forceful and blunt when he said that the USDA does not tolerate racial discrimination. This was Vilsack’s widely circulated public explanation for firing Shirley Sherrod. There are two problems with this. One, the world now knows that Sherrod did not do or say ...
(Akiit.com) “Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.” – Unknown The above quote is a favorite that has infiltrated Facebook status updates and blogs around the Internet with increasing regularity. It also illustrates why one of the most powerful themes shaping this election ...
(Akiit.com) Reacting to Andrew Cuomo’s all-white political ticket in New York, a Brooklyn councilman has called for a black-led organization. That’s so 1960s… Trying to be a better son, I’m attempting to call my mother more regularly. And I couldn’t believe the doozy she laid on me during a recent ...
(Akiit.com) President Obama gave a speech yesterday at The American University in Washington outlining his vision for immigration reform. He explained how the divisive sentiment in Congress and lack of support from Republican leaders has left the reform agenda held hostage. Their need to win — by ensuring Obama loses ...
(Akiit.com) An Obama will again address the NAACP’s annual convention starting July 9 in Kansas City. It just won’t be President Obama. He spoke last year to the convention, but will not be making a return engagement. First Lady Michelle Obama will give a talk, and it’s not really billed ...
(Akiit.com) Among common Americans, the contentious issue of corporate personhood is not a subject likely to find its way into everyday conversation. A topic that nevertheless impacts every person within the United States and beyond, the rights guaranteed to corporate entities have been, on many occasions, at variance with those ...