Commentary

I’m angered that Kevyn Orr, Detroit’s emergency manager, would approve the city’s plans to spend $400 million to build a new hockey arena when the city is broke and thousands of city workers are worried about receiving their hard-earned pensions. It’s a tragedy that Orr – and Detroit’s city administrators – are gambling with the […]

The last thing Orlando Shaw needs is a reality show. Shaw, 33, who is unemployed, has 22 children by 14 women, and he’s being sued in Nashville, Tennessee’s most expensive child support case. Shaw claims he’s a good father but says he can’t afford the tens of thousands of dollars he owes in child support […]

The sky is blue, water is wet, and most White people would rather not engage in conversations about race that would address reality and subsequently…

Oh, the sheer nerve! The gall! The chutzpah! And Gabe Finger has plenty of all three. Finger, all of 16 years old, is a summer intern for The Daily Caller, a conservative news and commentary web site. Yes, the web site being conservative is pertinent to this story. It should come as no surprise to […]

Jeff Johnson is back with 3 Things You Should Know including Tavis Smiley bashing President Obama in regards to his thoughts on the Zimmerman verdict.…

Is anyone black enough for Cornel West? Not only is West criticizing President Barack Obama at every turn, but now, for reasons that are unclear, West has taken aim at MSNBC, calling it a “Rent-A-Negro” network and then criticizing Rev. Al Sharpton for being on the “Obama plantation.” “I think that it’s been decrepit though, […]

I suppose Cornel West just couldn’t help himself. One day after his sidekick, Tavis Smiley, ripped President Barack Obama on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” West called Obama a “global George Zimmerman” during a rambling critique where West accused Obama of being hypocritical in his response to the Travyon Martin killing and George Zimmerman’s acquittal. “We […]

President Barack Obama finally told his truth about being black and male in America, a powerful 19-minute testimony that black people have been waiting to hear and white people needed to know. In a deeply personal reflection about racial polarization, Obama used his White House bully pulpit to steadfastly align himself with black men in […]

Tavis Smiley refuses to contain his contempt for President Barack Obama. And here’s the pathetic reality: Obama didn’t attend Smiley’s “State of the Black Union” conference in 2008 because he was campaigning for the White House and five years later, Smiley still can’t let it go. On Sunday, during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the […]

Too bad Alvin Wilkerson wasn’t George Zimmerman. If he was, he might be walking around free today for a tragedy that was more of an accident than a crime. But unlike Zimmerman, who is now free more than a year after fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, and claiming it was in self-defense, […]

After this weekend’s shocking decision by an all female and almost all white jury to let George Zimmerman walk, what more evidence do we need…

On Friday I came across a photograph someone posted on Facebook of the deceased body of Trayvon Martin. It was the first time I saw…