It’s really white people’s fault that Ninjas are running around tearing down statues of white confederate history. When any people erases its own history for ANY reason, you are dealing with a very wounded individual people. Someone has been torn down, abused, mocked, demeaned and used when your self esteem is so low that you want to rewrite history and the history of a place because it makes you feel uncomfortable. History itself (that is to say reality itself) is thus some kind of aggression or micro aggression to you that you cannot bear or tolerate to be reminded of?…

Lessons from Atlanta Street Racing Let’s begin with a series of assumptions. Southern country white folk love car racing and NASCAR. Their attachment to it is legendary. As a matter of fact the legends of car racing reads like a deep white country list of biblical patriarchs and their families; Richard Petty, Al Unser, Bobby Allison, Bill Elliot, Earnhardt, Wallace, etc. Auto racing has a whole history and ‘thing’ (for lack of a better word) behind it. From stock cars, to Formula 1 to drag racers, to trucks, motorcycles and even go karts, being a child of urban Atlanta I…

I have no problems with female leadership, political or otherwise. The thing to contemplate however is that it is one thing to lead the basketball team because you are 6’1” and everyone else is 5’10”. It is quite another matter to lead the team because you actually have skills. Do you actually have skills or are you just 6’1” and simply the tallest person they could find to build a team around that ‘looks’ competitive on the court? I’m going to offer some hints although I do not want this to be interpreted as a critique of Black Women. I…