Author: black104_wp

 

Keisha and Stacy got knocked the “^@#$$” out!

Have you ever been scrolling through YouTube videos and boxing matches and MMA fights come up; and street fights and brawls pop up. The key to your time on the video is A) the amount of time it takes to get to the knockout punch and B) how dramatically effectiveRead More

Ode to Greenbriar Mall and the Evolution of Black Bourgeois Atlanta

No hyperbole or writer’s license necessary, my first conscious memory was at Greenbriar mall. I was pre-school age and my mom took me to an Easter breakfast program circa 1974 when Rich’s had a restaurant on the second floor that overlooked the mall. My mother and I watched the programRead More

Intergenerational Dysfunction is a hard row to hoe

The white south was so dependent on slavery ideologically and culturally that it nearly completely ignored finance capitalism, manufacturing, technological innovation, industrial innovation and the legal and wage labor benefits and tools that come along with them. The very same elitist cultural forces that kept Black people ignorant and illiterateRead More

Why we Black People Need Healing

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 esteemRead More

Lessons from the Atlanta Street Racing Debacle

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;Read More

A Message to the Black Woman and the Republican Party

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. DoRead More

Grandma was a 70’s Porn Star

I love stories you can’t make up. People either wouldn’t believe you or would question your motives for citing such an outlandish story. But alas it is true. One of my ‘jobs’ that my bachelors in Political Science and my Masters have proffered me as a Black man with aRead More