There has been a great deal of chatter about the current situation in Afghanistan being embarrassing and chaotic, and frankly, it’s a pathetic take on a highly challenging situation. Do you want to know what’s embarrassing? It’s embarrassing that Bush and Cheney turned a mission to bring down the people who attacked us on 9/11 […]
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Power is the Republican Party’s crack, heroin, and opioid cocktail. Republican politicians will say and do anything to obtain and maintain power. They will even let you die. There is no clearer example of that than how they’ve lied about and managed the COVID-19 pandemic. We are where we are today because Republicans don’t care
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Some of the most, shall we say, enthusiastic and frankly, most tiring debates you’ll see online are about a concept known as the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). The GOAT is the notion that there must be one athlete that undeniably stands at the top of their sport as the best of all time. Having
My experience with student loan programs has been a tale of two cities. Not necessarily the best and worst of times, but I found myself playing two very distinct roles. I was a financial aid administrator for various schools over approximately ten years. There were two universities and two what they used to call proprietary
When I think about our current predicament in the United States, the lyrics of the late, great Amy Winehouse come to mind, “What kind of fuckery is this?” A catastrophe looming on the horizon will be more devastating than any airborne virus. COVID-19 has been the most catastrophic medical and economic crisis our country has
There are so many beautiful things I could tell you about my mother, Leola Alethea Bradley Watlington, but more important than anything was her edicts to us. I took them as seriously as if they were written on tablets and brought down from Mount Sinai. Of all the many demands and directives she shared with
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The Republican Party is the “let’s throw shit up against the wall and let’s see what sticks party.” The latest pile of elephant shit is their coordinated effort, as usual, to make White people deathly afraid that Black people are coming to get you. So, lock up your women, hide your kids, and tonight’s entertainment
During the past 18 months, the Covid 19 virus wasn’t the only outbreak that occurred. An outpouring of cries for social justice has rung out globally. Much of America has been forced to deal with an issue that Black people have been dealing with since the “White Lion” arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, with 20
During the period 1956-1971, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted the Counter- Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). COINTELPRO was a government-funded fascistic operation designed to silence political movements and shut down political and social change. COINTELPRO was a series of government projects developed to destroy many of the movements and organizations responsible for much of the
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On September 14, 1814, a poem was written by Francis Scott key declared that the United States was “the land of the free, home of the brave,” and in 1916, our nation memorialized those words when the poem was adopted as our national anthem. There is no doubt that there have been significant acts and
