(Akiit.com) Dick Gregory left us in August of last year. At least a year before passing away, he told me we’d soon be facing chaos. Well, naturally, since so many, including me, thought that Hillary Clinton would be our President and our nation would function normally, we could not imagine what ...
(Akiit.com) Usually, I call him 45. Don’t want to feed the ego of a narcissist by calling out his name. But every shred of ignominy that is associated with this era needs to be associated with this putrid 45th President of the United States. So let’s call it, the Trump era. ...
(Akiit.com) Democrats have nothing to offer voters this election cycle except outrage and protests. As a recovering liberal myself, I’ve told my radio audience for years “democrats make you mad, so you don’t have to think.” Heading into the midterm elections, it’s clear their strategy hasn’t changed post-Obama. I’ve grown increasingly ...
(Akiit.com) The bitter acrimony directed toward President Trump and his family is unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. Many attackers are has-been “personalities” who think attacking him will somehow reboot their failed careers or save whatever career they think they have. Take, for instance, Kathy Griffin. She was no better-known ...
(Akiit.com) After Sarah Sanders and her family were kicked out of a restaurant owned by a Trump-hater, Rep. Maxine Waters said on MSNBC, “I have no sympathy for these people that are in this administration who know it’s wrong for what they’re doing on so many fronts.” She added, “I want ...
(Akiit.com) The idea behind the justice system is that it’s designed for just that: justice. It’s meant to be impartial, honest, and, most importantly, fair. Despite this, however, there’s one thing that happens far too often. Innocent people are wrongfully convicted of crimes that they didn’t commit. Of course, these are ...
(Akiit.com) Every single day, hundreds of thousands of people fall victim to situations of injustice. This is a sad fact. What’s more? The majority of these individuals tend to come from marginalised groups in society – minorities who often do not have the means to fight their own corner effectively. Now, ...
(Akiit.com) Each year, the trustees of Social Security and Medicare issue their report delivering the news, invariably dismal, about the financial condition of the nation’s two largest entitlement programs. This year, in the report just issued, it’s worse than usual. Last year, the trustees forecast that Social Security and Medicare’s hospital ...
(Akiit.com) “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” Benito Mussolini When you look at professional sports, especially pro football in the US, you notice a pattern; almost every stadium is named after a corporate entity. Take a look at the NFL stadium ...
(Akiit.com) It’s that time again. It occurs every year around the same time like clockwork. It’s election season. Political signs infiltrate Black neighborhoods, placed by campaign operatives hoping you remember their respective political candidate come election time. More importantly, these political operatives are hoping your familiarity with their respective candidate will ...
(Akiit.com) The most recent unemployment rate report seems to contain nothing but good news. The overall unemployment rate is down to 3.8 percent, the lowest that it has been since 2000. The Black unemployment rate, at 5.9 percent, is lower than it has ever been. With the white unemployment rate at ...
(Akiit.com) Unfortunately, there have been a large number of terrorist attacks that have occurred in this millennium. Of course, 9/11 was one of the worst terrorist attacks of all time, and since then trains and buses have been targeted in numerous countries across the world. In light of the attacks that ...