As I reflect on the UGA National Championship win and the institution of football and football culture in the psyche of the deep south; it default and de facto is the last remnant of the antebellum southern Black/White structural dynamic of political economy. White leadership and control and Black labor for nearly majority White institutions of higher learning. Black labor and physicality and White leadership and everybody is happy. Black people and White people united in some kind of Elysian Fields of the old south like our provincial (if oft times brutal) southern institutions and methods of organization; that is…

I’m writing this morning because I couldn’t Youtube info on Brunhilda from Wagner operas. That is a bizarre segue into our topic for today; westerns and western themed dramas. I’m here because of late I have been interested in figures from Native American history. Yes, I’m over 50 and when I was growing up we got taught the white version of ‘how the west was won’. Honorable cowboys and homesteaders running off recalcitrant or unruly natives and such excitement and opportunities for white men to be heroic. I’m one of those generations of little Black boys siding with the Lone…

I often tell people that my experiences in a mainline American Christian denomination were rougher than my experiences selling dope in the streets on the block. This is to argue in an around about way that the thugs I encountered in the church hierarchy were worse in many regards than the thugs I encountered on the streets of Atlanta and South Carolina where I hustled. Just when I thought I had put all that behind me, an article comes out in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about how the United Methodist Church is seizing Mt. Bethel UMC’s assets. Immediately I was…

I need to present my Naomi Osaka and a couple of other essays as part of a series in which I am transvaluating values. I borrowed the word “transvaluation” from Nietztsche. His bizarre little philosophy. I love it so. But yet it is little; a world collapsing in upon itself into madness and self-annihilation. How could I not love one who “philosophizes with hammer”…that is to say in an effort to destroy idols! The only problem is the atheist’s final paradox from which he or she cannot escape. It is summed up thusly; it is not so much that the…

We broke intellectuals have dangerous habits. In this regard we like to take assumptions, traditional ways of thinking and logic and flip them on their heads….to as it were, see if they can stand on their heads as good as they can stand on their feet. The best philosophies, religions and practices nearly always do so, (that is, are able to stand on their heads just as good as their feet)or not. It was at this point in my intellectual life that I reflected on the White boy that shot up the Asian massage parlors because they had taken advantaged…

Jesus didn’t advertise, didn’t buy billboards in the next town. He didn’t advertise ‘it’ because he was ‘it’, when you are ‘it’ you don’t have to advertise, presumably. Come on brothers, when you go out to the basketball court, you can tell whether or not somebody got game by how they dribble, not what comes out of their mouths. Fellow tennis players, when you see a ninja serve you pretty much know what you’re going to be getting. It’s an old anecdote because it’s been true a long time, ‘if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…