Or the Original Deep Fake (White Jesus) excerpted from Circumventing Your Religion to Find My God(s) Maybe it was that picture of The Last Supper I found in the basement — the one stored away…
Black Jesus
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Tulsa, MOVE, and Now: America’s Unbroken Pattern
In Tulsa, 1921, the cover story was “an uprising.” White mobs, backed by police, burned down Greenwood and dropped fire from the sky. The truth never had to be proven; the accusation was enough to…
The Problem Ain’t Guns, It’s White Men with Guns
Remember Minority Report with Tom Cruise? The precogs could predict who was going to commit murder and the cops would swoop in before it happened. Crime nearly vanished because they followed the pattern. We don’t…
Shots Fired
I keep thinking about when the first shot will be fired, the one that sparks the next Civil War. Will it come from a trigger-happy weekend warrior in the National Guard?Will it come from a…
The Most Dangerous People on Earth
Some of you will be offended by what I’m about to say, but as the old saying goes, a hit dog will holler. On the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till’s murder, I woke up furious.…
Integration Was the Fire
“I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Integration – the act or process of integrating.A: Incorporation as equals into society or an organization.B: Coordination…
Winners vs. Losers
This was prompted by listening to the Clay Cane Show on SiriusXM Let’s get something straight, the Confederacy lost.Not just on the battlefield, but morally, historically, and spiritually. They lost. But if you’ve looked around…
The Ghost in the Mulch Pile
Originally written August 2022 This weekend I had an “ah-ha” moment—one of those realizations that many Black people may already know deep down, but I hadn’t fully connected the dots until now. I now have…
Abusive Relationship
Originally written and published by as op-ed piece for the Micheal Smerconish Show on SiriusXM, August 2022 Black America is in an abusive relationship. A relationship where everybody knows about it but, our friends, neighbors,…
Independence (Day)
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I used to be a flag-waving, fireworks-shooting, parade-attending, cookout-going patriot on the 4th. Proud African American. Two things changed that.Knocked that patriotism shit right out of me. The first happened pre-pandemic.(It’s funny how we’ve started…