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MICHAEL DERK ROBERTS
Small Business Consultant, Editor, and Social Media & Communications Expert, New York
Over the past 20 years I've been a top SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTANT and POLITICAL CAMPAIGN STRATEGIST in Brooklyn, New York, running successful campaigns at the City, State and Federal levels. I'm a published author and award-winning journalist. I've been honored and recognized for my deep, hard-hitting analytical work on socio-economic and political issues confronting the United States in general and New York City in particular. I'm he Senior Consultant, COMMONSENSE STRATEGIES (www.commonsensestrategies.biz ), a Marketing, Social Media & Communications company based in Brooklyn. I also host two weekly podcasts at www.blogtalkradio.com/shangoking .The first, aired on Saturday mornings is called BTS -- Business, Technology and Social Media and the second, The Roberts Report, is aired on Sundays. You can also follow me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mdvroberts. (347) 279-6668.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 18, 2018 October 19, 1983 and The Murder Of Maurice Bishop
But influenced by some close associates and elements hostile to the Grenada Revolution, the prime minister reneged on his position.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 5, 2011 Why Black History Is important
Racism Is The Millstone Around The Necks Of Both Black and White People
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 22, 2010 Wordsmiths And The Delusional
The New Political Catch Phrases And Buzz Words;
Code Words Used In Modern Politics To Stoke Fear And Xenophobia
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 24, 2014 Black On Black Crime: A Critique
After Reams Of Paper, Countless Analyses, Tomes And Essays, No Nearer To A Solution
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, October 28, 2016 Thank You FBI! You Helped To Make President Clinton
Now Comey's action has rendered this proud and efficient agency as a dopey version of the Keystone Kops. A kind of Uncle Gadget-like approach to anything Clinton perhaps a reaction by political osmosis contaminated by his brethren in the Congress.
SHARE Thursday, May 27, 2010 The Roots Of Jamaica's Deadly Violence
The Modern Day Manifestation Of Garrison Violence Is The End-Result Of A Deliberate Set Of Socio-Economic and Political Policies
SHARE Monday, May 31, 2010 Obama's Rightward Immigration Shift
389,000 Deportations In 2009, Mexican Border Fences And Little Else;The Ugly Realities Of A Failed US Immigration Policy
SHARE Friday, February 9, 2018 The African Slave Trade, Economics and Capitalism
Black History 2018: What Africa Gave The World; Modern European and American Cities and States Directly Benefitted From The African Slave Trade
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 17, 2014 Israeli MP:Kill Palestinian Mothers
The New Israel/Palestine "War": Racism Lurks Below The Surface;The Doctrine Of Collective Punishment Learned By Jews From Hitlerite Days Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Understanding American Racism
The Obama Presidency Helped To Expose The Fallacy That Racism Is Dead
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, January 3, 2020 Why Christianity Sucks
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 20, 2015 Me, Myself and I
Narcissism, Stupidity And The Age of "Me"
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 11, 2020 "Commute - Not Pardon" - How Trump Played Roger Stone
Still, lost in all the chatter is the fundamental fact that Roger Stone WAS NOT PARDONED by the president BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT COULD NOT DO THAT and if he had this action would have opened up a legal can of worms and at worst a flagrant and illegal violation of the United States Constitution.
(46 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 29, 2020 An Open Letter To My "Christian Friends:" You're All Hypocrites!
As a critical and thinker, I cannot balance or equate the Christian notion and belief that "God is love" when put against the Old Testament's god-monster who killed multitudes of Egyptian children at Passover and drowned nearly everyone in Noah's flood just because they did not do what he wanted.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 5, 2017 American Narcissism: Body And Beauty
According to the Skincare Foundation, America is home to more than 18,000 tanning salons, with more than one million people frying their skins in them each and every day -- 7 days a week.
SHARE Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Clinton, Haiti And Martelly
Haiti's 208 Years Of Independence:Unfulfilled Promises, Desperation And Serious Challenges Ahead
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 16, 2020 When The Marching Stops"What Next?
I believe it is apropos to ask now: Where does all the energy unleashed by the street protests go? What happens to disband cops when the loud chanting fades?
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 10, 2019 American Socialism - The Facts, Not the Fiction
The United States of America like every other western nation with an advanced economy, such as the Great Britain, Germany, France, and Japan is already a partly socialist country, with a mixed economy and any number of government programs and services that serve the public good.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 20, 2020 Black, African-American or Caribbean-American?
Let me also say that I do not like hyphenated social designations even though, in the case of African-Americans, I understand it.
SHARE Thursday, November 23, 2017 The Thanksgiving Story: Genocide And Land Theft
The effects of American colonization on the Indigenous people reduced their populations and left generational wounds that still linger today -- stubborn and enduring.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 17, 2010 The Independent Voter Myth
Focus On The Upcoming Mid-Term Elections;This Voting Bloc Is No More Independent As Are Democrats Or Republicans
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 4, 2010 Simple Issue: About President Obama's Leadership
The U.S. Mid-Term Election Results And Republican Rout;Democratic Half Measures, Vacillation, Extremism And Obstructionism Defined The Process
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, April 17, 2017 The Threat Of Nuclear War Is Real Again
Who are these crazy men? Let's start with the North Korea leader Kim Jong-un. He's on an aggressive war-binge with an oversized lust for weapons -- including nuclear weapons.
SHARE Friday, September 9, 2016 Manufactured "National Polls" And US Presidential Elections
The Math Favors A President Hillary R. Clinton; unless Trump wins Florida AND Pennsylvania he has NO PATH to the 270 Electoral College votes necessary and needed to win the White House.
SHARE Thursday, September 15, 2016 My Money Is On Bill For A Second Round
Gotham's Politics And The DeBlasio Conundrum; He does not need a majority of the white vote to win re-election
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, October 9, 2017 Columbus: Criminal, Ignoramus And Mass Murderer
Along with Columbus came Tuberculosis, Chicken and Small Pox, venereal diseases of all types, Typhoid, Dysentery and many other diseases that were never seen or known in this part of the world.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 3, 2017 Trump, Religious Hypocrisy And The Bible Belt
Our worldview is influenced and driven by a 24/7 news cycle packaging entertainment as news and living only for the next "5-day wonder."
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 23, 2009 The Obama Peace Prize - A Deserving Award
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize And The Right Wing “Oh No†Corner;All Americans Should Be Proud Especially After 8 Years Of Republican Global Alienating Rule
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 15, 2020 The Coronavirus and a Kakistocracy Like No Other
The Trump Presidency has degenerated into a bumbling, inefficient, toady-centric kakistocracy where "up is down, and "down is up," and truth is what he and is yes men and women say it is.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 4, 2019 Where IS the Anger?
Back-to-back Gun MassacresThe "guns don't kill people" argument is deeply flawed because it sidesteps the real issue. The point is not whether guns can spontaneously kill people on their own.
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 14, 2020 The "Holy" Hypocrites Among Us
And today, American Christianity is right at home with unmitigated and unadulterated hypocrisy. So, pardon me if I do not believe.
SHARE Sunday, March 1, 2020 CARICOM and The CORONAVIRUS
A Nightmare Scenario Looms. The Caribbean MUST put preparations to combat the virus in place NOW
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Why Blacks Are Poor
Wealth Gap Widens In The United States :Rich Gets Super Rich
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 5, 2012 The Iowa Republican Tea Party Caucus
Racism, Ignorance And Prejudice On Display;How Ordinary White Americans Are Led Like Dumb, Driven Cattle By Conniving "Leaders"
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 9, 2016 Why Democrats Lost: Voter Turn Out
Republicans tuned out to vote in far larger numbers than Democrats. For all the best laid plans and strategies you can't stay home and will an election -- it's not a spectator sport.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 30, 2020 Caribbean Hypocrisy
Was the Pompeo Conference in Jamaica aimed at dividing CARICOM? Yes, without a doubt.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 31, 2019 The China Model - Lessons To Be Learned
Yes, the fundamental fact is that China is a very different nation that plays by its own set of political and economic rules. That's what so irks and galls those who wholeheartedly embrace western capitalist "free market" systems in the context of liberal democracies.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 15, 2016 American Democracy And The Tyranny Of The Majority
But is changing the faces of members an elite class in government and in American society every five years a good measure of democracy?
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 6, 2016 Democracy Is Not For Children
Trump's legions, composed primarily of white people, exist in a state of self-induced panic, made more acute by the delusional ramblings of their "champion."
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, July 19, 2019 A Pervasive Racist Meme: "Go Back To Your Country," Defending AOC and Company
Why this has stuck an angry chord in me is the fact that I've heard it before, seen it on Facebook, and many times it's the default position of many Caribbean-Americans when anyone criticizes the United States government or dares to compare it with one of the many "adversaries and enemies" that this country has an ongoing, sustained need for.
SHARE Sunday, May 17, 2020 Conspiracy Thinking and the "Alternative Political Universe"
For all of Mr. Trump's crowing about his base, the fact is that he deeply despises them. They do not belong in his world, class and don't dare go to any of his many luxury hotels or casinos.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, August 7, 2020 Pyrrhic Choice: Democratic and Republican Parties
Moreover, this Democratic and Republican Party's cynicism is an opportunist political maneuver since the Democratic Party know that Black and Brown people have no other political home to go to since they're not wanted in the Republican Party.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 6, 2020 Policing and White Supremacy
"The negro is a beast," they said and "civilizing him" by beatings and brutality was "good for him" they said.
(26 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 13, 2017 Religion Vs Evolution: A Pragmatic Viewpoint
Let me again be blunt and go even further: religion has its origin in and derives its power from the natural world. In response to fear, superstition, and ignorance
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 13, 2016 The "Basket Of Deplorables" Exists
They're Republicans Supporting Donald Trump; Today's Republican Party is a white, ethno-nationalist, and xenophobic organization of exclusively white Americans.
SHARE Thursday, August 8, 2019 The Slippery Slope Of "Domestic Terrorism"
The inherent danger in formalizing and codifying the created and manufactured designation of " domestic terrorism" and the potential for the U.S. Congress to greatly expand and enhance this from its already wide interpretation is that it could be used to justify just about anything.
SHARE Thursday, December 21, 2017 Fuzzy Tax Math
Yes, with only 33 percent of the support for the bill (the same kind of flushy toilet numbers that President Trump is stuck in) the Republicans charged ahead like a crazed herd of wildebeasts heading for grazing grounds.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 15, 2019 Capitalism: Not For Black People
I contend that capitalism is far more than an economic system. Capitalism is a ruling class ideology that is institutionalized for the practice and purpose of governing and controlling the relationships between groups of people and between individuals (the capitalists).
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 6, 2018 Et Tu Susan?
The upshot is that Susan Collins has now risked her entire political legacy on Brett Kavanaugh's vague, vapid and dodgy assurances that he will impartially judge all of the facts.
SHARE Tuesday, June 18, 2019 The Question Of Democratic Socialism
Still, progressive thinkers have long exposed the roots of suffering and pain of the 99 percent at the bottom rung of the United States socio-economic ladder
SHARE Friday, February 7, 2020 Tuff Gong Still Rules - Remembering Bob Marley at 75
Marley's classic reggae offering, "One Love" expresses the deeply spiritual and social code of Jamaican Rastafarianism - "One God, One Aim, One Destiny."
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, August 19, 2016 Neo-Capitalism And the American Middle Class Myth
Fact is that in the first decade of the 21st century in America, the much-ballyhooed Middle Class is a phantom, a figment of the collective imagination of dishonest politicians long adept at hoodwinking the American people.
SHARE Saturday, October 16, 2010 Forgotten Nation
10 Months After The Haitian Earthquake Of 2010;Off The World's Radar Screen The Haitian Situation Is Still Very Dire
SHARE Saturday, June 23, 2018 Towards A Progressive 21st Century Black Agenda
The Black Problem Stated: Black people urgently need a progressive roadmap for the 21st century, and what that roadmap must contain, look like, and the action items needed to make this happen.
SHARE Friday, February 7, 2020 Grenada Independence - Still Moving On
Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique today depends on its service industry tourism - as the foundation of the economy.
(15 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 21, 2015 Guns + Racism = Mass Murder
The Rise Of The Angry White Man;North Carolina's White Supremacist Past On Full Display
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, May 16, 2016 The Age Of Political Stupid
Even With Technological Innovation and Creativeness The American Voter Is Dumber Than Ever
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 22, 2014 New American Racism
Changing The Language On Racism And Segregation; Persistent Ugliness And A False Narrative Hides The Modern Version of Racism
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 16, 2010 The Illogic of Anger and Extremism
The Idiocy Of America's Present Political Climate;Noise,Not News, Drives The Political-Media Complex Of Today
SHARE Tuesday, March 13, 2018 The Grenada Revolution 1979-1983
The Revolutionary Government has demonstrated more respect and regard for human rights than any other government before it
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 9, 2016 Trump, American Hypocrisy And Sex
Male-mating language, many and oftentimes sexually objectifying of women, and utterly crude, is unfortunately normal.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 27, 2016 America: Still Separate and Unequal
Changing The Language Of Racism And Segregation; A Persistent Ugliness And A False Narrative Hides The Modern Version of Racism
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 26, 2014 The Enduring Stench Of Racism
From King To Obama:Black People, Including President Obama, Now Called “Mud Monkeys†And Worse
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 19, 2020 COVID-19 and The Cost Of Medicine For Profit
We need to look no further than the issue of ventilators and their short supply to understand what Americans are facing relative to the global pandemic.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 20, 2019 The $1 Trillion US Debt in China Trade War
China has its own range of financial firepower at its disposal to punish the US for the tariffs war, including its massive $1.123 trillion piggybank of US Treasury bills.
SHARE Wednesday, October 18, 2023 War Crimes Are NOT Justified
The Israel vs Palestinian Conflict:
Killing unarmed people is wrong and reprehensible - by BOTH sides
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, January 6, 2017 Russian Chess And False Flag Operations
There is an old saying in the Caribbean: "look at the pot telling the kettle its bottom is black."
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 8, 2012 Political Mathematics
The Art And Science Of Modern Political Campaigns;How Democrats Can Make The GOP Politically Irrelevant
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Religion And History
Intolerance, Violence And Superstition
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 3, 2020 American Capitalism, working class and COVID-19
Today, we see the desperate policies of a panic-driven government whose response to an invisible enemy is throwing huge amounts of money at a collapsed economy.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 27, 2015 Xenophobia, Hypocrisy and Thanksgiving
But terrorism brings politicians together in sickening ways. It's a godsend gift used to attack groups of defenseless people who can't fight back.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 7, 2017 Capitalism And American Politics
The reality of capitalism's American-Dream-Turned-Nightmare is that now there are millions of hardworking, intelligent people who are living from paycheck-to-paycheck and are stuck in jobs with few opportunities for advancement and little hope for the future.
SHARE Monday, January 16, 2012 Beautifying Racism
The GOP And The Myth Of A Post-Racial Society;The Old Days Of "Coded And Loaded" Words Ended When Barack Obama Became President Of The USA
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, November 27, 2020 The Modern Cult of Ignorance
The Trump Era has ushered in dangerous times. Never have so many Americans had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to truth and learning anything.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 24, 2018 God and Google
But one thing is not in doubt -- Google and God are on our daily human agendas.
SHARE Sunday, October 26, 2014 The Racism Papers
The Myth Of A Post Racial American Society Is Deliberately Blind To Facts
SHARE Sunday, February 11, 2018 National Pantheon Of Grenadian Heroes
Badgered by a political system that in 2018 is still emerging, under-developed, backward and weak, Grenada still suffer from periods of tepid progress, pronounced retrogression, and limited improvements of the quality of life for all Grenadians (here I include Carriacouians and Petite Martiniquians in this characterization).
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 1, 2016 Castro, Revolution And Cuba
So the reaction to his death by the US media was predictable. There was no love lost between the United States and the old uncompromising revolutionary even after the historic visit of President Obama.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 5, 2012 American Idol On Steroids
How Republican Politics Have Degenerated: Theater Of The Absurd
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, May 14, 2010 Politics And Facts In The Age Of Obama
When Lies Trump Truth:
Mainstream Media And Political Commentators Now Lie Consciously And Routinely To A Gullible Public
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, June 5, 2017 A New American Future: Socialism
The bold fact is that American capitalism, as a system, is now increasingly challenged.
SHARE Tuesday, August 16, 2016 Why The Olympics Is More Politics Than Sports
In Rio the pre-Olympic eviction and displacement process was realized by the state's Police Pacification Units being dispatched to the city's favelas -- the poor districts of Rio.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Democracy By Illusion
Media Manipulation,Big Money And Subjective Politics Will Define The New American Reality
SHARE Wednesday, February 1, 2017 American Dictatorship And Republican Cowardice
Welcome to United States of Caesarism; enter Republican cowardice and complicity with an arrogant, narcissistic White House and leader.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 18, 2010 Dentist X For Police Commissioner
New York City Public Education And Mayor Bloomberg's Chancellor Pick;How Square Pegs Ending In Round Holes Do Not Apply To Elites
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 18, 2016 The Gutter Duo: Julian Assange And Donald Trump
Assangehe has abandoned any pretense or attempt at behaving as the folk hero fighting institutional corruption and governmental wrongdoings as he's now completely genuflected to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
SHARE Friday, February 23, 2018 Grenada's March 13th Elections: Critical and Historic
Despite some cosmetic and strategic differences both parties are basically center-right organizations (political parties that lean to the right of the left--right political spectrum, but are closer to the center than other right-wing variants).
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Politics Of Victimhood
The World Is Tired Of IsrBel's Holocaust Syndrome, Its "blame-the-Victim" Spin That Is Used To Cover Up Its Belligerence
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 5, 2020 American "Exceptionalism" And COVID-19
Today the MAGA crowd have gotten their "exceptionalism" wish as the United States leads the world in this global and deadly pandemic, racing well past other nations in the numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 21, 2010 Extreme Stupidity
Justice Clarence Thomas' Wife "Senior Moment," Jacked Up And Delusional
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 18, 2010 Obama's Bold Political Gambit: Triangulation
The Politics Of Triangulation;
Borrowing A Page From Bill Clinton's Political Play Book Fraught With Serious Repercussions
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 4, 2018 Yes. Christians Do Love Satan
Here in America a poll taken about five years ago found that about 60 percent of the population believes in a literal Devil.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 3, 2009 In Defense Of ACORN
The Republican Right-Wing's Continuing War On ACORN;Bashing A “Poor People's†Organization Can Have Far-Reaching Effects Down The Road
SHARE Sunday, August 28, 2022 The "American Bull" In A China Shop
No matter what top United States politicians - including President Joe Biden - say, one thing is certain. They all want a war with China. The recent provocations by Speaker Nancy Pelosi et al is evidence of this goading China into a dangerous military confrontation. But, the so-called West, led by the United States, do not want a protracted, bloody nasty war for a whole lot of unintended circumstances. Besides, a long, bloody
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 16, 2020 The Comedy Of Errors Will Soon End
Indeed, both Senate Republicans and the GOP now have copious amounts of egg on their faces.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 27, 2014 Israel And The Whirlwind
The Simple Reasons For The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict;Palestinians Have Only Their Chains To Lose
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 24, 2016 The Law of Meaningless Things
Yes, I'm the kind of person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions. I am an iconoclast. And proud of it.
SHARE Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Staten Island: New York's Copland
The Eric Garner Non-Indictment;The Whitest And Most Racist Borough Is An Ultra-Conservative Outpost And Bastion Of Reputed Mafioso
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 27, 2020 A Pageantry Of Lies and Buffoonery
This convention also exposed the utter cowardice of the Republican Party and its morbid and abject fear of Donald Trump.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Drug Nation
It seems as if everybody is on something in America - from Prozac to marijuana and everything in between. We've long ago lost the "War on Drugs." Welcome to your everyday junkie.
SHARE Tuesday, June 9, 2015 The FIFA Conundrum
After Decades Of Endemic And Systemic Corruption, Kickbacks And Nepotism
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 5, 2014 Of Rhetoric, Plantations And Politics
The Bill deBlasio Inauguration: Verbal Fireworks;Public Advocate Tish James And Others Draw Fire For Loaded Symbolism In Speeches
SHARE Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Facebook's Ugly And Dark Side
And the other takeaway is that the people who engage in this kind of behavior -- I hate to say it -- are not the most educated or sophisticated on Facebook or social media.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 17, 2016 Redux: Why I Hate Sheep II
Open Letter To The Donald And The Trumpites;Trump has infamously hated Rosie O'Donnell because she's an independent, strong-willed, and assertive woman.
SHARE Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Donald Trump's Kakistocracy
This den of questionable characters are repugnant, lack any scruples, and appear ignorant of the meaning of integrity, give validation and meaning to the term "kakistocracy" -- government by the worst people.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 19, 2012 Republican Party Transformation
A New, Modern And More Virulent Form Of Jim Crowism Is Revolutionizing The GOP --The Wrong Way
SHARE Monday, July 24, 2017 21st Century Black "Nobodiness"
It therefore is not hard to see why "Black nobodiness'" persists. Or that Black children - and their elders - look into mirrors every day and see no one special standing there.
SHARE Friday, September 21, 2018 Election Consequences: The Race For NYC Public Advocate
Williams won the New York City vote hands down. The activist Brooklyn city councilman got 436,000 votes on primary day -- 150,000 more than Tish James got in her 2017 public advocate primary.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Google And God
The fact is that today, with the click of a mouse button the era of seeking answers and advice about God directly from rabbis, pastors, or imams is gradually coming to an end.
SHARE Tuesday, April 11, 2017 The Bombs Of Springtime
For the umpteenth time, a sitting US president sought to change a set of pesky and annoying subjects and narratives at home by launching an attack abroad.
SHARE Friday, February 9, 2018 Bob Marley At 73
Marley was an unparalleled Black ambassador, a musical innovator, and gifted with visionary talents.
SHARE Thursday, April 22, 2021 Killing Black People IS THE RULE
Today, people's ideas about cops are gleaned from news stories, which often repeat police lies verbatim, and more often, an endless line of TV cop shows, which spew B-roll propaganda into living rooms every night.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, October 5, 2007 The Columbus Myth
Christopher Columbus remains an enigmatic figure with a record of brutality, geographical ignorance and thievery
SHARE Saturday, May 30, 2020 The Establishment Call: Protesters Join Us! You're Kidding?
And too, this system of white brutality against Black people has evolved over the years and have adapted to suit the times. Today's Ku Klak Klan supporter does not wear a white sheet or burn crosses.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, June 6, 2016 Facebook, Black Self-Hatred and "Colorism"
This neo-colorism is the result of self-hatred, a pervasive inferiority complex, and low-self esteem in the "oppressed classes" and their identification with the oppressor.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 1, 2011 The Rise Of The Mimic Men (And Women)
The 2011-2012 Political Agenda And The Political/Media Complex;Spin, Attacks And "Manufactured Consent" Will Drive Quest For The White House
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Putin is a killer? Mr. President what about the Saudi Crown Prince?
Biden could not bring himself to "call out" the Saudi crown prince who oversaw the deliberate, planned and orchestrated murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi - a FACT that Biden's own CIA confirmed.
SHARE Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Egypt People's Revolution
The United States, The Middle East and Politics;Events Caught The West Napping And Still Unable To Understand What Is Happening And Why
SHARE Monday, May 28, 2018 Memorial Day Hypocrisy and Pyrrhic Victory
And thirdly, and most importantly, all of the foregoing begs the crucial questions: who benefits from war and do wars serve any real meaning and progressive purpose?
SHARE Wednesday, October 4, 2023 Dysfunction for Dummies
Underscored the "tyranny of the majority" and the weaknesses of U.S. Democracy
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 17, 2011 King's Timeless Wisdom
Celebrating The 82nd Birthday Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968); Influenced By Christian Social Activism, King Was Perhaps Its Greatest Proponent
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 10, 2015 Before Greece There Was Jamaica
The Troika That's Dismantling Democracy: IMF, The World Bank and World Trade Organization
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 12, 2016 Rebuilding The Democratic Party
The Phoenix Option: Rising from the ashes of defeat; Democrats have been there before.
SHARE Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Weaponizing a Pandemic
But there is no need for facts when peddling conspiracy theories or weaponizing a pandemic.
SHARE Wednesday, December 24, 2014 Racism's Deadly Whirlwind
When Belligerent Rhetoric And Murder Collide;And Its Not Done Blowing Its Vitriol Yet
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 8, 2016 Hillary Clinton Is A Formidable Politician
Many are sometimes miffed at her military hawkishness that is more in line with Republican positions in Congress.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 2, 2023 United States "Forever Wars"
The Embedded Intelligentsia, Violence Exporting Economy, and Infrastructure of a Global Empire
SHARE Monday, September 25, 2017 Trump, Hypocrisy And Sports
For too long, we've bowed, scraped, grinned and skinned (I'm borrowing from Malcolm X), been shot and killed like vermin, called every demeaning and derogatory name, herded into inner city ghettos like dumb, driven cattle, experimented on as so many guinea pigs and, as Angela Mayou so eloquently put it "And Still We Rise."
SHARE Tuesday, July 19, 2011 The Overton Window Fanatics
Lunacy Unleashed;How The Hitherto Unthinkable Ideas Have Now Gone Mainstream
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Black Woman VP? Maybe, Maybe Not
Finally, Biden and his VP pick must prepare for a delayed election result and the shenanigans that are bound to be launched by President Trump and the Republican Party.
SHARE Tuesday, March 28, 2017 The "White Wing" Of American Politics
Then the next morning you get a WFT moment and look at yourself with open revulsion as if you'd just woke up from sleeping with a pig with lipstick.
SHARE Wednesday, February 20, 2019 NYC Public Advocate Race: Jumaane Williams, Activist Political Leader
"I have no problem challenging the people in power. I also have no problem making sure that there are effective policy changes. I'm proud that I can do both." - NYC Councilmember Jumaane Williams.
SHARE Monday, January 23, 2017 Lipstick On A Pig -- Still A Pig
Former United States President, Barack Obama, once inarticulately said: "no matter how much lipstick you put on a pig -- its still a pig." Ditto. Thanks Big O! Words of wisdom! God, I miss you already!
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 10, 2017 The Death Of Truth And Love Of War
Its not that the United States President on down continue to have an adversarial relationship with truth and facts, but it is the nonchalance and uncaring way that they cavalierly just toss around easily discerned falsehoods.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 9, 2011 The Retribution Narrative
The Rise Of The Imperial Presidency;The Osama Bin Laden Killing And American Jurisprudence
SHARE Sunday, May 31, 2020 Please "White America" Do Not Lecture Us!
Finally, even in the modern era, the notion that as Americans we believe in non-violence or have some well-nurtured opposition to rioting is belied by the historical evidence.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 22, 2011 Racism As A Modern Construct
I don't see sagging pants, bling-bling jewelry, gold teeth and illiteracy as somehow being related to my cultural improvement and empowerment
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, November 15, 2013 Obama Stands Alone
Jittery Democrats Know-Tow To Republican Bullying Over The ACA;Democrats Shamelessly Prefer To Placate Republicans Rather Than Back Their President
SHARE Tuesday, November 29, 2016 Confronting White American Racism
Reshaping and Remaking The Democratic Party After Hillary Clinton Lost The Argument Against White, Christian Americans.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 12, 2020 Nope. I'm NOT "Turning The Other Cheek"
You want me to see "one America." You want me to buy in to the "no blue or red states - only the United States." All very lovely platitudes. All divorced from the reality of America today.
SHARE Wednesday, December 28, 2016 Of Cows, Herds And Resolutions
More than 50 percent of Americans make New Year's resolutions every year. But, humans are creatures of habit and so mentally it's very hard to change.
SHARE Friday, July 22, 2016 All Hail King Donald!
That flummoxed convention attendees already jacked up on "Trump Juice" and in no mood to tolerate any open or veiled criticism of their Guy on The Pedestal.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 25, 2016 Trump's Houdini Wall -- Adacadabra!
So will a President Trump just ILLEGALLY confiscate the money legally earned by Mexican businesses and order US banks to cough it up for his wall ?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 28, 2016 The Nature Of Fascism
Part I of Three Part Series
The Rise Of The Angry White Men
SHARE Sunday, March 26, 2017 Trump's Nightmare Budget
Yah! Let's Make America Suffer Again! These cuts represents the widest swath of reductions in federal programs since World War II.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 17, 2016 Debunking Trumpspeak: The Gordian Knot Of Syntax
There is something acutely disturbing about a person whose statements are not always what you hear, what he says you heard or did not hear, or the difference between what he says today and the realities of tomorrow.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, June 13, 2011 Sound And Fury
The Republican Presidential Debate: Demonizing President Obama
SHARE Saturday, February 5, 2011 Class, Counter-Revolution And The Vanguard Party
Egypt's Fragile Revolution and the Rise of Reaction;The Ruling Elite Is More Organized And Will Respond Viciously To Repress A Popular Uprising
SHARE Tuesday, October 6, 2020 The Cruelty and Danger of "Performance Politics"
However, the real danger here is that this performance with Trump as the "star" is telling the "story" that he's "winning" and that should the election go the other way, he'd be the victim of some political fraud and wrongdoing by Democrats.
SHARE Saturday, August 13, 2016 Clean Up After Your Dog
Of Tall Tales, Dog Poo And Spokesgoblins In A Quixotic Campaign
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 15, 2016 The Road To 270 Is Paved With Math
Donald Trump looms large over these races, peeing and pooping on them like a dog with and acute attack of diarrhea
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, August 9, 2010 The Age Of Rage Continues
The Attack On The American Constitution;In The Age Of Obama His Opponents Increasingly Use Bigotry And Racism To Define Politics In America
SHARE Monday, November 23, 2020 Divided We Stand - America, Biden and 70M Trumpites
Given the fact that Trump is an impeached, corrupt, inept, incompetent and failed leader - the absolute worst in American presidential history - any candidate, except Satan, would have been acceptable to the American People.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Democratic Mid-Term Comedy Of Errors
The Rise of the Republican Right: Extremism Upsurge;Democrats Must Take A Cold Sober Look At The Party Or Lose The Presidency In 2016
SHARE Saturday, June 4, 2016 Why Blacks Are Poor Today
The unfinished set tasks left undone by the Civil Rights Movement find manifestation in the corresponding struggles for Black empowerment in economic entrepreneurism and financial literacy.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, May 28, 2010 Criminal Actions
The BP Oil Spill;The Obama Commission Of Inquiry Is A Joke; This Matter Should Be In Court
SHARE Thursday, November 19, 2020 The Murder Of American Democracy
I'm not asking Joe Biden to do the heavy lifting required to save American Democracy and to protect it from the clear and present danger that is Trumpism.
SHARE Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Super Delegates And Democracy
Super Delegates Are Part Of Both Parties' Apparatus and Function in Different Ways
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 26, 2009 Generals Not Always Right
Why President Obama Must Take His Time On Afghanistan;32 Years Ago Another Young President Had To Make Similar Decisions
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 17, 2020 Elective Dictatorship: Exhibit I the Caribbean
In the Caribbean any criticism of the ruling party is immediately interpreted as political treachery and would get the offender sidelined, shunned and relegated to the "back bench."
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 12, 2012 Ryan Gets A Shellacking
Biden On Offense Scolds, Exposes Ryan's "Doctored Facts"
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 17, 2010 Joe Burton's Unhinged Gibberish
Bought And Paid For By Big Oil Even Republican Colleagues Give Him Arms Length
SHARE Friday, June 17, 2016 John McCain And The Wascally Obama
That wascally Obama done gone and say that since ISIL started to terrorize people in Araq he's killed 120 of their leaders and B-52 bombers are hitting them with precision strikes every day.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, June 18, 2012 White Hot Anger
Presidential Disrespect Exposes the Deep Anger And Racism That White People Still Harbor
SHARE Saturday, May 22, 2010 Simple Math; Hard Politics
An Analysis Of The Just Concluded Primary Elections;Party Primaries Are Very Different From General Elections So Hold The Celebrations
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 6, 2010 Counting Unhatched Chickens
The Looming Mid-Term Elections And The Republican Party;The GOP Is Banking On America's Anger And Fear To Retake The Congress
SHARE Monday, June 13, 2016 "Radical Islam," And Homegrown American Terrorism
Indeed, ALL of the mainstream media appeared to rush to judgment by disregarding the fact that he was born right here and was an American citizen even though his parents were Afghans.
SHARE Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Apocalypse Now
Bush Speaks About Third World War
SHARE Wednesday, June 18, 2014 Delusional Noises From The Right
Dick Cheney, McCain et al;Why Should Americans Listen To The People Who Lied To Them To Invade Iraq?
SHARE Thursday, July 1, 2010 What Did South Africa Get?
The 2010 World Cup And Mass Escapism;No Matter The Hype And Vuvuzelas South Africa's Poor No Better Off
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 9, 2010 Rise Of The Lumpen
Haiti's Botched And Tarnished Presidential Elections;A Fickle and Illiterate Strata Is Exploited By Politicians Since The Days Of Papa Doc Duvalier
SHARE Friday, April 8, 2011 Imperial Realignment
Understanding The New Global Realities;Disguising Naked Aggression And Military Intervention Using United Nations Cover
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 17, 2020 It's Stupid To Blame "Socialism" or "Sloganeering"
Dems Down ballot Losses: And despite all of this Democrats raised over $1,5 billion in donations from July to September 2020 alone.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, February 29, 2016 No, Dr. West. Barack Obama Is No Republican
There is absolutely no question that Dr. Cornel West is, without question, one of America's premier intellectuals of our time
SHARE Friday, June 3, 2016 Donald Trump's "Death Song"
You know someone has presence when they walk in and immediately command the room. Like Barack Obama or Bill Clinton.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 13, 2018 Christmas Gifts For Less Than A Penny
I also hate the pot-bellied gluttons who focus of food, food, and still more food. Christmas for them is a license to gleefully pig out.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, May 30, 2016 The Rise of "Donald The Goat"
How it was that goats have now become sheep -- bleating stupidly and incessantly?
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 31, 2016 The Hypocrites Among Us
The Ruckus Over Harambe The Gorilla and the Hypocritical Reaction
SHARE Thursday, September 10, 2020 Slavish Political Loyalty - How Trump May Win
So, it's now a waste of time to bemoan the actions of, for example, Senate Republicans as gutless, spineless and sycophantic. They are afraid of the enigmatic president's legendary rage and his penchant for exacting spiteful retribution.
SHARE Friday, November 13, 2020 Trump's Right-Wing Base march
All of this can set up a confrontation between MAGA fanatics with their gun-loving genes, and local law enforcement.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 19, 2015 Donald Trump and the GOP
The Jester Runs Things; Xenophobia And Stupidity Trumps Reason And Common Sense
SHARE Wednesday, January 15, 2014 MLK, Black Power and Politics
Remembering MLK in 2014;New Positive Statistics Only Tell How Far Blacks Have Come – Not Where They Are
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 14, 2008 The End Of Neo-Conservatism
Obama's Rout Of The Republican Party Is A Repudiation Of Its Moribund 30-Year Old Neo-Conservative Ideology And Its Touted Omnipotence
SHARE Friday, April 13, 2018 Who Can Urinate The Farthest: China Or The USA?
If President Trump's actions trigger a full-scale trade war with China, among the hardest-hit sectors of the American economy will be the farming states in the mid-west.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 25, 2007 The Invisible, Irrelevant Black Leadership
The United States Democratic Presidential Elections 2008;"Other" Candidates Attempt To Speak For Black People
SHARE Wednesday, June 8, 2016 Hijacking Muhammad Ali's Legacy
The mainstream corporate media conveniently "forgets" that in 1967, Ali was stripped of his boxing license and, like Paul Robeson before him, had his passport taken away, after refusing to serve in the U.S. military.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 16, 2010 The People Spoke. But What Did They Say?
Contrary To Prevailing Punditry The Mid-Term Elections Was No Referendum On The President's Agenda;The Way Forward For President Obama's Supporters And The Democratic Party
SHARE Friday, November 16, 2007 PART I - The Caribbean Dilemma
The Caribbean In 2007: Battered By Cultural Imperialism; Cable Television, Hollywood And Targeted Advertising Have Undermined Caribbean Identity
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 3, 2010 Rhetoric, Noise And Anger
The One Nation Rally: Historic And Timely;ButIn The End Rally Was A Loud Statement About National Dissatisfaction And Disillusionment
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 21, 2016 Why I Hate Sheep
An Open Letter To Senator Mitch McConnell
SHARE Thursday, July 29, 2010 The Age Of Rage
Sign Of The Times: Black Social Collateral Damage;Rushing To Judgment On Flimsy Pretexts Are Now The Norm
SHARE Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Unrest Is not Revolution
The Arab Middle East Crisis;How A Hitherto Loaded Political Word Is Now Fashionable
SHARE Sunday, August 23, 2009 POLITICAL TERRORISM
The Healthcare Debate: The Politics Of Fear In Modern Politics;The Republican Party Wants President Obama To Fail "" Pure and simple.
SHARE Thursday, December 2, 2010 The WikiLeaks Brouhaha
When Internet Postings Spark Calls To Name Website A Terrorist Organization
SHARE Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Obama's Political Triangulation
Little Different From The Republican Party Agenda; Move To The Canter Reminiscent Of Bill Clinton
(11 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 1, 2007 Mr. Chavez's 'Pseudo Socialism'
Proposed reforms have nothing to do with 'people's power" and all to do with 'presidential power'
SHARE Wednesday, June 16, 2010 What He Did Not Say
President Barack Obama's Prime Time Oil Spill Speech;As His Speeches Go This One Was Great But With Some Disappointments
SHARE Friday, September 25, 2009 Mr. President, Please Push Back
Right Wing Agitation, Scare And Smear Tactics Hindering Obama's Progressive Agenda;Appeasing Republicans And Detractors Is Futile And Counter-Productive
SHARE Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Enablers of Mass Murder
The US and the UK will not stop Israel's genocide in Gaza - They're guilty of similar barbarity
SHARE Monday, December 21, 2015 Christmas: The Other Picture
Indeed, the God of yore has been replaced by the holy trinity of Greed, Hypocrisy and Stupidity
SHARE Sunday, March 3, 2024 Polls, Israel and Joe Biden's Re-Election
To win in 2024, Joe Biden needs motivated young people and people of color to support him with the same enthusiasm as they did in 2020.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 9, 2007 The Obama Dilemma
Why White America will not let Barack Obama become a Black candidate.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Blacks And Politics
Once Blacks Were Republicans, Now They Are Democrats. And Both Parties Have Not Served Their Interests.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 10, 2014 When Children Come Knocking
United States Border Immigration Dilemma;Lawmakers In The United States Looked At The Same Phenomenon In Europe And Said: Cant Happen Here
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Democrats Must Stop Whining
In Defense Of President Obama: Becoming Mitt Romney?;The President Was On Target With Substance Not Playing Loose With The Facts
SHARE Thursday, December 9, 2010 Poor Out In The Cold
The Obama-Republican Tax Compromise Beyond The Hype:Despite The Spin Blacks And Minorities Will Not Benefit
SHARE Thursday, August 2, 2007 China And The Caribbean
China Flexes Its Economic Muscles In The Caribbean; Undermines Taiwan's Influence In The Region.
SHARE Thursday, July 29, 2010 The Age Of Rage
Sign Of The Times: Black Social Collateral Damage;Rushing To Judgment On Flimsy Pretexts Are Now The Norm
SHARE Saturday, July 21, 2007 The Caribbean Dances With George Bush
Caribbean leaders met with President Bush in Washington in June. What's the follow up besides the photo opportunity?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 20, 2007 The African Conundrum
How Poverty, Disease, Wars and Want Are Maintained in Africa and the Complicity of Multi-National Corporations In This
SHARE Thursday, July 1, 2010 What Did South Africa Get?
The 2010 World Cup And Mass Escapism;No Matter The Hype And Vuvuzelas South Africa's Poor No Better Off
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Craig's Toilet Capers
Senator Larry Craig - Caught With His Pants Down
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 23, 2007 Lessons Of Christmas
Today's Socio-Economic And Political Conditions No Different To Those Of 3000 Years Ago
SHARE Friday, September 28, 2007 George Bush's Jaundiced World View
For George Bush And the Neocons the world is divided between "Good and Evil" with America the epitome of Good.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Obama And The Gay Thing
Intolerance Is Bad For Both Gays And Straights
(9 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 14, 2007 Weenie Nation
Where did "we the People" go wrong?
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 13, 2007 Gore Vs Bus
This Time Its Presidential Election 2008
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 5, 2007 Mr. Bush's Spin Doctors
"Old Friends" Come Out To Put New Spin On Iraq Debacle Claiming "Troop Surge" Is Working
SHARE Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Leave All Children Behind
Bush Threatens To Veto SCHIP While Giving This Cronies Trillions in Tax Cuts and While Spending $2 Billion a Week in Iraq
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 11, 2008 "The Bradley Effect?"
'Obamania' And The US Presidential Elections
SHARE Saturday, July 28, 2007 Terrorism's New Face
Britain's Latest Terror Plot: What Drives Intelligent People To Murder?
(19 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 29, 2007 The Pope's Senior Moment
The Pontiff of Rome insults indigenous peoples of Latin America and makes a white supremacist statement in the process.
SHARE Friday, August 3, 2007 The Face Of The Undocumented
No Drag On The Economy. About Eight Million Undocumenteds Pay Social Security, Medicare, And Income Taxes
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 28, 2007 Sane, Sensible Policy
Immigration Issue: New Haven, Connecticut Offers Ray Of Hope; New ID Cards For Undocumented Gives Dignity To Maligned People
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 14, 2007 Karl Rove: Not Really A Political Genius
Karl Rove is no political genius but a loyal Bush flunky, an ambitious, though limited man, who got lucky and with the help of the US Supreme Court had his candidate installed as President of the United States.