(Akiit.com) There’s an age-old adage that states, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” As it is in life, so it is in politics. A political entity’s ability to measure and influence public opinion plays a significant role in its ability to further its ...
(Akiit.com) I have attended far too many funerals of young African American men whose lives have been extinguished – denied the right to experience the full breadth of life – at the hands of someone who looked like them, from the same tribe, who share the same blood, African American ...
(Akiit.com) The current philosophy of governance – and this includes governance of the democrat and republican variety—is that there is tremendous capacity in government to better the lives of average folks; it is the power of administrative policy that can end poverty, cure disease, and ultimately save the planet. It ...
(Akiit.com) Racism is not an either/or proposition. When did the R-word become as offensive as the N-word? During the presidential campaign, then-Sen. Joe Biden made an off-the-cuff observation that his rival, then-Sen. Barack Obama was “… clean …” and “… articulate …” Then Don Imus slurred the Rutgers University’s women’s ...
(Akiit.com) I first spotted the ghoulish, macabre face on the poster with the word “socialism†slapped underneath it on wallboards and on an occasional freeway onramp girder around Los Angeles last April. From time to time the poster would pop up (really more a crude handbill) on walls and even ...
(Akiit.com) One day, America will truly free itself of the chains of its racist past. But this country is a long way from the “post-racial era†that some proclaimed after the election of Barack Obama as the first African American U.S. president. Even Obama acknowledged that in his speech last ...
(Akiit.com) W.E.B. Dubois famously wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line.” This historical reality was dramatized, in Technicolor, in the film Across 110th Street: On one side of he street was the Harlem ghetto and all its poverty; on the other side, ...
(Akiit.com) It’s been weeks since his arrest, but here we are still shouting about what happened that fateful day in Cambridge, Mass. And while it is somewhat striking that the murders of Oscar Grant and Sean Bell failed to generate anywhere near the same level of national attention as the ...
(Akiit.com) We all want a president who takes the time to hear about and understand the everyday struggles we face. But that is exactly what the president failed to do when he took up the issue of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a Cambridge police ...
(Akiit.com) In the age of Obama, the arrest of a prominent Black Harvard Professor on the steps of his own home was sure to ignite a discussion about the state of race relations in America. Upon his return from an overseas trip Henry Louis Gates and his driver were attempting ...
(Akiit.com) The stock basketball one liner came to mind when I heard President Obama utter his now infamous “acting stupid†line referring to the cuffing of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. The star player takes a wild shot and the livid coach screams “no,†“no†“no†and then when the ...
(Akiit.com) Look, I know that what former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick did. He financed and allegedly took great pleasure in running a dogfighting ring. And I know that now that he’s been reinstated by the NFL and cleared to play in October, there will be a firestorm of controversy ...