Now Our Scholars Are Being Targeted?

News on the arrest of Henry Louis gates Jr.  What does it mean when scholars of color become targets? Not that I think the police officers were educated enough to realize who the man was-I am hard pressed to give them that much credit-but why not give the alleged criminal your name and badge number? [...]

Boricuas at Tuskegee

Despite what we are taught about our differences, we have been aligned with our African bretheren longer than anyone chooses to believe-or in some sad cases- to admit. Check thsi out…

This is what happens when ” in loco parentis” goes awry

If anyone at school would have  insisted on searching my daughter’s underwear for prescription drugs, let’s just say the words  BAIL MONEY would have taken on new meaning for me.  And the fact that Clarence Thomas was the only judge on the Supreme Court that disagreed with the outcome only makes me hate his ass [...]

Murder at a Museum

Well, folks, I really don’t even know what to say about this, except to reiterate what I have said in previous posts: white folks are getting more scared by the day, and fear is a powerful motivator . Yes, oppressors are concerned about the consistent changes,  and yes, the power structure is becoming impacted in [...]

Indigenous People Day

That’s what we should celebrate tomorrow. Forget Columbus; he was a rapist, a pillager of land; in short, a medieval thug. So no, I don’t celebrate a day named for any cultural assassin (s), or a day named for someone who discovered a place that had habitants that knew who and where they were. [...]

Puerto Rican Citizenship?

The newest in a long line of distractions from what is truly going on in Puerto Rico has just arrived; Puerto Rican citizenship papers. According to Wikipedia, citizenship:
“is membership in a political community and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen”.
So, here is my (first) question-how can [...]