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…