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“This is supposed to happen to other people. This was never supposed to happen to me.” As I’m sitting on my mother’s porch on a Tuesday afternoon these are the thoughts that ran through my mind. Its funny how having plenty of time on your hands leads to contemplation. Officially, I will be unemployed as [...]
On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood before a joint session of the United States Congress and declared the attacks by Japan on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, “a date which will live in infamy.” 24 years later on March 8, 1965, no President stood in front of a [...]
“We’re still in a recession. We’re not going to be out of it for a while, but we will get out.” Warren Buffet uttered those words and yet this nation remains dangling off the cliff of fiscal calamity. When President Obama ran for the White House in 2008, he called President Bush’s $10 trillion dollars [...]
“The group most devastated by America’s obsession with the gun, is African Americans. Although making comparisons can be dangerous, there are times when they must be noted. America has the largest prison population in the world. And of the over 2 million men, women and children who make up the incarcerated, the overwhelming majority is [...]
I have been working on special assignment with a program that is charged with making sure that survivors of Hurricane Sandy get the resources they need to rebuild and restore the lives they once enjoyed. When I was assigned to start this project back in mid-December, I came into it with a great sense of hope. [...]
I admit, I thought this post would be easier to write. “A freebie,” I thought to myself after the staff reminded me behind the scenes that Monday, January 21st fell on both Obama’s (ceremonial) Second Inauguration – he was officially sworn in on Sunday – and Martin Luther King, Jr Day. Just so we’re all [...]
As a young African-American man who aspires to one day serve my state in the United States Senate, it would seem, much to my chagrin, that all the odds are not in my favor. The 112th Congress (2011-2013) did not have a single African-American Senator, and the incoming 113th Congress, which will serve from 2013-2015 [...]
There’s a chance after reading this some will call me a sellout, idiot, or worse. Maybe nobody will care. Either way I’m cool with it, but this has to be said. I’m not really expecting much from President Obama in his second term. When I say I’m not expecting much, I mean as it relates [...]
Original Intent In 1856, the new Republican Party fielded its first Presidential candidate in Senator John C. Fremont of California. Fremont would go on to lose to Democratic nominee James Buchanan as we all learned from our American history classes. However, that election was a wake up call that allowed the Republicans to eventually capture [...]
“God bless our troops.” This weekend is Veteran’s Day weekend. The actual holiday falls on Sunday November 11, 2012 this year although most people have Monday off from work (If Veteran’s Day falls on a Saturday we would have Friday off). Sunday marks the anniversary of the signing of the armistice, which ended the World [...]
