NBC shared that Mitch McConnell is the decedent of slave owners. It was reported that they owned 14 slaves. This isn’t unusual, but the difference is that he’s the senate majority holder. It’s especially interesting because he said he doesn’t think the US should pay African Americans reparations for something that happened over 150 years […]
There’s an old saying that Knowledge is power. We’ve seen this idea proven correct throughout history, with cigarettes, seat belts, helmets, and dietary habits. D.L. wants to know why the same ideology isn’t applied to policing. With everything else named there was research done and from there rules, standards and laws were put in place […]
The President of the US has been accused of rape and D.L. Hughley wants to know why the #MeToo movement is so silent. They haven’t come out and said anything about these allegations, which is unlike them. When athletes, businessmen, actors, congressmen and anyone else has been accused of a sex crime the #MeToo movement […]
A number of states have passed very harsh abortion law. Missouri is currently trying to shut down the one abortion clinic in the state. D.L. finds it bothersome that these types of decisions about women’s bodies and reproductive rights are being made by men. Men cannot carry children therefor they should have no say on […]
About 15 years ago a plane crashed into a corn field because of a grain of sand. After several trips it ended up cutting the planes fan and shutting down the hydraulics system. That grain of sand shouldn’t have been in the plane but, it was a flaw in manufacturing which caused disaster. D.L compares […]
Donald Trump was harder on 5 innocent boys who were wrongly accused of a crime than he is on a Saudi Prince who had a man murdered. He believes the words of lying District Attorneys and Judges but not the FBI or CIA. He chooses to believe what he wants to believe. Talking about When […]
D.L. watched Ava DuVernay’s 4 part Netflix series When They See Us and called it “both the most beautiful and sad thing,” he had ever seen. It tells the story of the Central Park 5; teenage boys who were arrested and convicted of a rape they did not commit. They were targeted and made an […]
All across the country Black people are staring down the barrels of guns. Behind these guns are police officers and citizens with anger issues and racial biases. A recent video circulated on social media really grabbed D.L.’s attention and struck a nerve. In the video a young Black man is being confronted by an officer […]
DL has a message for all of the MAGA government workers who are suffering from the shutdown, “you are not a victim you’re an accomplice.” He says you are now feeling the same fear, hopelessness and heartache that people of color and immigrants had when Trump was elected. He does not feel sorry for you. […]
When it comes to neighborhoods, when Black people move in people think, “there goes the neighborhood.” But when white folks move in the thing “here it comes.” Neighborhoods are not and have never been built for Black people, DL says the only place that has been built for Black people is the “penitentiary.” Don’t Miss […]
There’s a video of a pastor “zip lining” over his congregation and DL says this reinforces his idea that people are “very loud about things that don’t matter and not loud enough about things that do.” A number of churches are silent on the injustices going on in the world today and DL says that’s […]
DL’s dad was not allowed to vote, so it inspires him to vote. When he votes he thinks of the type of world that his father wanted to live in and what kind of world he wants his kids to live in. When he thinks about his dad, he knows that he would be proud […]
