(Akiit.com) The reaction was swift and justifiably angry to shock jock Don Imus’s latest racist crack that the Rutgers women’s basketball players were nappy headed ‘hos’ (An even more curious characterization given Imus’s trademark floppy mop). Imus didn’t step over the line of racial incorrectness he obliterated it. He straddled ...
     (Akiit.com) This past weekend, I watched the film “Amazing Grace.†This marvelous film tells the story of the battle abolitionist William Wilberforce waged to end the slave trade in the British Empire. While watching the film, I pondered the fact that our understanding of the origins of our liberty ...
       (Akiit.com) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama beamed as he sat beside Jesse Jackson as Jesse announced that he was formally endorsing Obama’s candidacy. The idea was that Jackson’s endorsement would give Obama a rocket boost with black voters. It won’t.     And there are two glaring reasons why. ...
      Do people realize how rare this is?      (Akiit.com) On March 8th of this year I wrote in my column, The Saga Continues, an op-ed piece called Is Virginia’s apology for slavery significant and how could it affect the national debate.      Though written with a select audience in ...
    (Akiit.com) Every effort to scrap or modify the blatantly unfair minimum mandatory sentencing law for illicit drug abusers has crashed against two things.     The first was then President Bill Clinton’s half-hearted fight to change the disparity sentencing in the law in Congress in the mid-1990s.     Next, it ...
(Akiit.com) General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has come under fire following remarks he gave during an interview with the Chicago Tribune. Responding to questions about the military’s policy of don’t ask, don’t tell, which allows homosexuals to serve in the armed forces so long as ...
5 years ago, President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind law. This piece of legislation was intended to improve the public school system by increasing the penalties for schools that didn’t meet academic standards. Schools were required to test students in math and reading and were held ...
On March 31, 2007, the first full quarter of fundraising will end for the announced 2008 Presidential candidates. Considering that the first primary is little less than a year away, this will be the first significant test of the 2008 Presidential candidates. It is estimated by most election experts that ...
The public reaction to Bloody Sunday in Selma – where civil rights marchers faced clubs and dogs in a police riot – led directly to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 42 years later, the anniversary of Bloody Sunday enjoyed national attention when the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack ...
Recently I was talking to a friend of mine who was, as they say, of the Caucasian persuasion. He and I have had political conversations over the years. He’s usually on the conservative side and I have what I consider to be a bonafide liberal, left of center point-of-view. We ...
When Ohio Congressman Tony Hall introduced two resolutions in 1997 and 2000 asking Congress to officially apologize for slavery, he was blasted from pillar to post. Irate whites called the resolution wasteful and racist. Many blacks ridiculed it as much too little and much too late. But the slavery issue ...
Kenneth Eng has been crucified for writing in Asian Week that blacks are weak-willed, Asian hating, and were complacent in subjection to slavery. But was he totally wrong? Did he have the right to say his hurtful words? Did Asian Week have the right to publish them? And was the ...