Over There.
When I examine my living and the legacy I hope to leave I am constantly asking myself, “Who is already where I want to be? What did it cost them to get there? Am I willing to pay that price?” Some days...
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The New Jim Crow
Some time last year I read a book entitled Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. It is a very unsettling look at how, as an American culture, we have shoved ourselves...
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Ariel Castro, Rape, and Justice
Ariel Castro: The Monster So, according to major news outlets, Ariel Castro checked out. More truthfully, he was hanged. By the telling of the accounts we are led to believe that he hanged himself....
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Kanye West Did Not Invent the God Complex
Genius Is As Genius Does About two weeks ago one of the news outlets I peruse occasionally to keep up with the goings on in authentic music culture had an article with linkage to an, at the time,...
View ArticleOut of the Closet #1 — Year One: The Mixtape
No, not that closet. So, I have this complex right. I know I’m not the only one who suffers from it because we all have insecurities if we’re human. But my version of this complex rears its head...
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Born Again…Still Black
I apologize for being so sporadic in my blogging. I actually think it is quite generous to even call what I do here “blogging”. It’s more like “sporadically boiling over due to cultural and...
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“They Ain’t Me.”: Ratchet Media and Cultural Disease
Almost weekly I find myself in conversations with my social media cohorts about the, mostly negative, influence of popular media on overall culture and young Black American culture specifically. It’s...
View ArticleA Brute Connoisseur Radio: Episode 0001
In our inaugural episode we discuss Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp A Butterfly”, the Duke Devils’ Jahlil Okafor’s beautiful relationship with his father, and how we can effectively respond to the most...
View ArticleBetter Left Unsaid
I had to sit for a minute Cry for a minute When I stood up I was somewhere between Cobbs’ “For Your Glory”, “Break Every Chain” And Jay Elec’s “Better In Tune with the Infinite” My spirit dragging my...
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7 Ways To Disagree AND Show Love In A Tough Conversation
The Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage last week has offered me the opportunity to participate in a LOT of conversations (real life and social media) on the role of scripture as it pertains to all...
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4 Reasons I Will Not Vote for “Him”…or “Her”
Welp, the time has come. It’s time for that group-walk we take as a nation every four years where we elect a President. It’s the apple of the eye of our “something like a democracy” governing system....
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A Plan for Thriving in a Trump America Pt. 1
Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat. Here we are, less than a week beyond the most emotionally jarring political development America has experienced in recent history. One side has been celebrating even...
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A Plan For Thriving in A Trump America Pt. 2
Last week, after a Trump-tacular election we all really needed some real ideas for making sure that we are not overwhelmed with fear of a Trump presidency. We needed something of substance to calm our...
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