Being a Black Man at the Corner of Progress and Peril is a collection of news articles by the staff at the Washington Post. After reading The Bond, Disintegration and Honky, picking up this book followed suit with my current fascination with race; in particular Black men and how they are percieved by not...
The first of the month is a busy time for all people. This is when bills are due and things are needed to be done. Parents and unemployed people receive their WIC and EBT, which is government assistance. For whatever reason that people qualify for these state benefits, the result it has on other people can...
Disintegration written by Eugene Robinson (Washington Post) is a carefully drawn discussion on Black America in the 21st century. Actually, the book is an analysis of all Black people in the post civil rights era. While race in America remains an unapproachable subject that is often balanced on the razor’s edge, Robinson’s definition of...
Wait a minute, you really think this is my fault? I am not going to go into detail about the US losing its AAA credit rating with S&P. Although the fact that it happened on a Black President’s watch is pretty darn funny, in the funniest unfunny way that I can approach it. (Insert...
In the garden, things grownurtured, soil turned, watered.In time, from the soil, seedlingsbreakthrough.In Time, the grass turns from brown, to lime, to green tobrown, and weeds crawl throughinvasive, creeping slowly,turning green grass brownthen dyingIn Time. A man turns,ages, learns, becomesunderstood and this lifetakes time. In 40 years a treeis still young, still growing.In Time,...
I wrote this paper while I was enrolled as an undergrad at San Diego State University. I did not edit this in any way. I felt compelled to post this because people will allow Gil Scott’s death to go uncelebrated, and unrecognized. I hope they won’t. I won’t because his death diminshes my creative...
Okay, I have hesitated to comment on this homeschool athletics situation on the CA(Commercial Appeal) that has led to a lot of misconceptions/perceptions based on the opinion of people who haven’t homeschooled their children and have probably never been involved in the educational system. I think my voice is a good measuring stick for the...
When I coached high school basketball, I always looked around for the tallest kids on campus. Working at an inner city school in San Diego, that also happened to be the most multi-cultural/racial school in the city, presented problems. Our school, Crawford High School, had incredible soccer, wrestling, and badmiton teams because of the abundance...
I have had countless discussions with artists about the responsibility of the creator of images and sounds. In these conversations, I have found the foundation for my understanding of the importance of art. I have also realized that my ideas about how art should be used, are very constrained. I think that art should...
Okay that title is pretty vague and I will be the first to say that this blog does not get a crazy amount of traffic, so being vague is not a good thing. I love the blog: http://www.shadowandact.com/ . Not because the title derived from my favorite author, but because the blog has the...