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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.
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."
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.
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.
Thursday, April 13, 2017(26 comments)
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
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.
Monday, April 10, 2017(2 comments)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Confronting White American Racism
Reshaping and Remaking The Democratic Party After Hillary Clinton Lost The Argument Against White, Christian Americans.
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.
Friday, October 28, 2016(6 comments)
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.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016(9 comments)
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.
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.
Monday, October 17, 2016(1 comments)
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.
Trump, American Hypocrisy And Sex
Male-mating language, many and oftentimes sexually objectifying of women, and utterly crude, is unfortunately normal.
Thursday, October 6, 2016(3 comments)
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."
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.
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.
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
Thursday, August 25, 2016(1 comments)
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 ?
Friday, August 19, 2016(3 comments)
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.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016(1 comments)
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.
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.
Monday, August 15, 2016(1 comments)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
