By Richard Ray Once upon a time in small communities like Brooklyn, NY, residents would walk down the street and see a neighborhood patrolman, we will call him officer McMurphy, rousing the local hooligans for missing school, loitering or just general perceived mischief. Now back then this wasn’t profiling, racial or otherwise, because McMurphy […]
Stop and Frisk has been in the news constantly since Donald Trump voiced that he would like to effectively invoke it on a national level as a crime preventing measure. First of all, the President, excepting in cases of dire emergency, such as having to invoke Martial Law, does not have the ability on […]
You want to expedite the police and their respective unions ensuring that their officers get better police training as a means of significantly reducing shootings? Enact legislation that makes the police, their unions and their pension funds accountable for paying out on all of the lawsuits and settlements related to police shootings and misconduct. The […]
Hollywood is noted, even criticized for its liberal politicking. Much of Hollywood has spoken out against GOP candidate Trump and its support for the Clintons and President Obama have been widely documented. Hollywood is star power and while none of us are sure what tangible effect they have on US politics no one can argue […]
I am fortunate to travel regularly, both within the United States as well as outside of our borders. Every place I have traveled I ask the same question: “could I live there?” I am not actively trying to move out of our present state let alone leave the country, but the question is always […]
It seems weekly (sometimes even more frequently) Black people are inundated with news regarding another police shooting of a Black male. Each case has distinctly different facts and circumstances, yet the feelings that resonate after each incident are ones of despair and even exhaustion at the emotional draining of seeing these males persecuted, hunted, oppressed […]
Race is a big issue in America. I apologize for the understatement, but it seems that minimally weekly we are reading of a questionable police shooting of a Person Of Color, often times unarmed. Blacks feel as if they are being targeted, Hispanics as well, especially on the issue of immigration status for either […]
The recent shooting of a 13 year old Black teen by a (White) police officer has sparked more outrage and questioning of the tactics and relationship between law enforcement and People Of Color (POC). Every case is, of course, predicated upon different and specific facts so it is hard to group every shooting as […]
If I hear one more Republican pundit excusing the racist bullshit out of their candidates by explaining that we need to remember that they were the party of Lincoln…well we all know I’m not going to do shit…but my fantasy would be to Stooge smack the shit out of each of these fools. I […]
The First Amendment of the US Constitution states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances America is […]
