• From the Vaults

    One from the Vault 2017: Mob Therapy and the destruction of the African American sense of family

    Many Americans watch reality shows but if you are in the Bluff long enough you are living a reality show except there aren’t any cameras (that you know of except police and security cameras) and you are not making any money. Just last week there were three incidents in the Bluff community that would have made Oprah, Dr. Phil and Iyanla (in no particular order Iyanla) salivate. They would feel like “it would be a good show to get inside your heads and see your past and pain and why you act the way you act”. It would make a…

  • From the Vaults

    One From the Vault 2017: that is just as true today

    Lance-Bottoms off to a terrible start in the 2017 Mayoral Race (one from the Vaults that is apropos today and indeed one of reasons I write such good books) Months ago, I called Felicia Moore out on the disingenuity of having a “plan” to solve crime on Bankhead/Hollowell and related areas of urban Atlanta by hiring more police, equipping more police vehicles with license plate reading and other database technologies and putting up more cameras in the area. I argued then that any Republican could have come up with the same exact policies as he insisted on doing something about…