Note: With race unfortunately becoming a hot topic these days, I thought I’d share with you the first chapter of my book, SELLOUT: Musings from Uncle Tom’s Porch. It’s a personal testimony of my journey as a conservative Christian American who happens to be black. If the topic and the chapter below stir your interest, [...]
The events of the past week or so have come so fast that they’ve made my head spin and my heart despair. We are at a place in this country on the topic of race that I never envisioned for the second decade of the 21st century, and we need to pull back from the [...]
Note: This is an excerpt from my upcoming book “Sellout: Musings from Uncle Tom’s Porch”, which will be released in July or August of this year. Happy Independence Day! Recalling the archetype of the “authentic black,” I suppose the expectation is that I’m supposed to temper my passion for America with my knowledge of her [...]
As we commemorate the 46th anniversary of the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it seems appropriate to assess the current state of one of the key organizations which was in the arena, engaged in the fight leading up to its passage. Every great warrior that lives to fight numerous battles knows they can’t [...]
It would be impossible to overstate the significance of yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling which effectively struck down gun bans nationwide as unconstitutional. The decision, however, resonates even more in the black community, whose people are more likely than any other group to be murdered by a gun-wielding assailant. That fact made two of the protagonists [...]
I’ve been a committed conservative and, with the exception of one year where I listed myself as an independent, a registered Republican since 1978. What makes that rather unremarkable statement more intriguing is that I’m an American who happens to be black. Anyone who follows politics knows that puts me in rare and sometimes lonely [...]
I remember when I first realized the federal government under President Obama had crossed the Rubicon. It was the weekend of March 28-29, 2009, and the news was starting to trickle out that the White House forced the chairman of General Motors, G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. to step down after nine years in the role [...]
