The first thing I saw this morning when I opened Internet Explorer was this article on Black History Month. The article basically discusses the varying feelings around there being a month dedicated to black history. One of the things that I discovered from the article was that February being the designated month may not necessarily be the smack in [...]
I keep a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. shaking hands hanging above my bed. It's my favorite thing to look at when I'm feeling like I can't face the next day, or when I feel like the hurdles that life puts before me are getting tougher and tougher to jump over. I think [...]
A friend (let's call her "Friend") went to her off-site office party last week and had quite the tale to tell the next day. I'm not talking about the usual story of executive staff getting frisky with their subordinates after downing too many free Mojitos. We can all tell that story. I'm talking about something [...]
Correct me if I'm wrong but in all the years that Seinfeld was on the air there were maybe three black people featured on a few episodes. These people were usually in roles portraying people in various servitude capacities including waiters and store checkout staff. They also featured a character that was obviously a parody [...]
Today we finished off the summer field-trip trifecta with a trip to the New York Aquarium. Knowing that my son looses his freaking mind late in the afternoon, we rushed out of the house at about 10:30am to get an early start. We arrived at the aquarium just in time to see the sea lion [...]
I'm all for Labor Day, really I am. Any governement sanctioned day off that I can use to spend time with my wife and son is a good day. Any day that recognizes the average working Joe, which I am, is a day I can support. Any day that encourages firing up the barbecue and swilling (lite) [...]
I was talking to a white woman and one of my dawgs earlier this week when the conversation somehow ended up on diversity. Obviously not taking into account her audience, she said with a straight face that "diversity is not about color." She claimed that Polish people and Russian peole are diversifying [America] becasue of their different languages and cultures. [...]
