White Devil Becomes White Angel – Tony D. R.I.P. (1966-2009)
Very few white boys in hip-hop could make the Black heads say, “Damn!” Rick Rubin did it. Eminem could too. And so could the producer Tony D. I still have clear memories of that day, 20 years ago, when my roommate Paul incessantly imitated a song he heard on Red Alert’s radio show, a song […]
2:00 a.m., Harlem
Still noises of celebration in the streets… Good Night, and God Bless America. Tonight, she deserves those blessings.
A Nation Changed, A Nation Unchanged
From my piece in NewsOne: The election of the first Black president of the United States is not the end of white supremacy in America. But it is the beginning of the end. America was founded upon the very idea of the white man reigning. America was conceived by conquering, colonial, Christian Europeans. They vanquished […]
I might vote Republican. Sike.
If the Republicans truly were who they said they were, I might vote Republican. If the Republicans were truly fiscally responsible, they might have my vote. It’s good to spend less than you make. But the past three Republican administrations have presided over the biggest expansion of debt in U.S. history. If the Republicans were […]
That’s. What. You. Get.
The U.S. House of Representatives just rejected Bush’s bailout plan, 228 to 205. The revolt was led largely by members of the President’s own party. That’s what you get when you elect Republicans on the false pretense that they’re going to cut spending from big government and cut taxes for the little guy. What they […]