(Akiit.com) While America’s economic recovery continued at a steady pace, racial disparity in hiring continues to plague the African American labor market, according to the Labor Department’s August jobs report. It does not seem mathematically possible, but employment of white workers grew by 1.1 million in July, compared to just ...
(Akiit.com) We’re familiar with the metaphor “thinking outside the box.” which means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective. But the metaphor presumes the box is serviceable. Suppose the box is functionally obsolete, has outlived its usefulness, just doesn’t work anymore. This means, you need a new box. ...
(Akiit.com) As a lifelong student of history, I believe that past is prologue and I tend to rely on history to help inform my decisions in public life. I often paraphrase George Santayana, who is credited with having said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ...
(Akiit.com) It’s been six weeks now. The ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks have come and gone. There were memorials. The names of the nearly 3,000 victims killed in the attacks were read and memorialized— again. American flags waved. Twenty years later, we still don’t know the ...
(Akiit.com) The instant the news broke from Bend, Oregon that 22-year-old Barry Washington was shot dead by Ian Cranston in a bar dispute the messages, emails and calls poured into the Deschutes County District Attorney’s office. They all said one thing: remember Emmett Till. Till’s lynch murder in 1955 in ...
(Akiit.com) The war on terror was codified after the attack on our nation on September 1, 2001, with the institutionalization of the Patriot Act and establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. Theoretically, this agency would be aimed at confronting attacks on the U.S. from abroad. My have things changed since then. ...
(Akiit.com) Sometimes, I wonder what is wrong with Black America and my African American brothers and sisters? We still have not learned from the past and we continue to make the same mistakes over and over again; even though, racist white America continues to piss, defecate, stomped, humiliate, beat, assault, ...
(Akiit.com) In an attempt to increase the white population and maintain white political control, the city of Atlanta expanded its borders northward to include the once rural area called Bulkhead. This successful annexation was made in 1952 under Mayor William Hartfield’s “Plan of Improvement”. Today, Atlanta is a far different ...
(Akiit.com) One of the best documentaries I’ve watched on Jim Jones and Jonestown was made by Stanley Nelson Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple. It chronicles the events and people involved with Jones San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple and ending with what culminated in Jonestown, Guyana ...
(Akiit.com) There is an old African proverb that captures one of the challenges that too many financially successful Black business leaders face today in America. That proverb is, “Your earned riches may engender envy and jealous criticism but be not dismayed by the foolishness of the envious.” Across the nation ...
(Akiit.com) “We’ve got the president of the United States on our side,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “Got 96% of the members of the Democratic caucus in the House on our side. We got all but two senators at this point in the Democratic caucus on ...
(Akiit.com) Conservatives are increasingly looking for alternatives to mainstream products and services as we’re getting kicked out of society. We’ve been kicked off of social media platforms, hosting providers, payment providers, domain name registrars, fundraising sites and more. That’s defensive mode. But we should also be in offensive mood, aggressively avoiding ...