SOS: Taking the Response to Police Acquittals to Another Level
A View from the Battlefield Published at BlackCommentator,com on September 21, 2017 SOS. Save our Ship. Save our Souls. Save our Society. Save our Sons. Same Ole Shit. However we define the acronym, it is a distress call. This country is in crises on so many levels–judicially, politically, spiritually, economically, etc. This can be witnessed […]
Here We Go Again: Black Life Doesn’t Matter
The Naked Truth Published in the Capital City Hues newspaper – September 24, 2017 Once again, the St. Louis metro region has erupted into righteous outage with the acquittal of Jason Stockley. Stockley is a disgraced former St. Louis cop who killed an unarmed Black man in 2011. It’s been three years since the Ferguson […]
Resistance is not a spectator sport
Published in the St. Louis American, August 15, 2017 Looking at the tsunami of the recent hate-motivated, mean-spirited, anti-black racist incidents going on in St. Louis, in Missouri and in the U.S., reminds me of a favorite saying of my mother: This country is going to hell in a hand-basket! To that I reply, […]