Have You Forgotten Hip Hop?

This holiday season has me buying more music than ever before! The likes of Drake, Wale, and J.Cole have me feeling hip hop again! Yet, I believe there is still an underrepresented story the medium has yet to tell. It’s that of the Black Family. I ask you, just because we become adults and take on our responsibilities, should we forget hip hop? Does the Black Family fit? Continue Reading >>

Public Education Needs Competition

The time for back to school is quickly approaching. And for many Black parents, that leaves no other alternative outside of the tried and true public education system. In business, there is a widely held belief that competition creates better goods and services. Could non-traditional schooling fill that competitor role in motivating public education into a better product? Continue Reading >>

President Obama’s Near End-Term Grade: B+

President Obama’s first term is nearly complete. I feel it is time to grade the Administration up to this point. How has he performed in truly serving the American people? Is he directly improving our quality of life? The President is very sharp on debating talking points. But how is he performing where the rubber meeting the road? In that effort, I think he has earned a solid B+. Continue Reading >>

20 Servers and An I.T. Guy

While on my commute into work this morning, I passed an eighteen wheeler with this tag line on the drivers door: 40 Acres and a Mule. I took a quick look as to who was driving and found a middle-aged Black man with a scruff graying beard. Here is a man still holding on to an ideal of prosperity. Today, that ideal is equivalent to 20 Servers and an IT Guy. Continue Reading >>

The Angry Black…President?

Here is a new one America is trying on for size: Our fairly new, Black President doesn’t get angry enough! (Read that once more for affect.) In a country where the ‘Angry Black Man‘ stereotype is fearfully comforting, the even-tempered Black President is chided as being soft. Is it just me, or is this the epitome of irony given the history of racial stereotypes in America?