As a School District employee in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, I’ve witnessed a sea of Caucasian teachers entering urban community schools, and while I don’t think race should matter much -unfortunately it does. If someone is coming to impart some needed knowledge on the children in my poverty stricken community, I welcome and applaud them. The children…
Modern Dating vs. Traditional Dating
DATING what does that mean? Well there is a definition for that: “Of a couple, to be in the early stages of a relationship where they go out on dates to find out what each other is like, as a prelude to actually being a fully-fledged couple” (Urban Dictionary.com, 2015). That definition was hard to…
Hip Hop On Life Support
While listening to modern so-called Hip Hop, all I can do is quote the late great Marvin Gay “What’s going on”, because what I’m hearing has no resemblance to what I know to be Hip Hop. My children blast this stuff in their head phones and from the PC’s in the house and for the…
A Black Hole: Ghetto America
What is a Black Hole; well here is NASA’s definition, “A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying. Because no light can…
Guns, Guns, Guns: America Is Still The Wild West
Bullets whizzing overhead, outlaws and gangs everywhere, public safety and civility in jeopardy and the uncertainty of the future is at its highest. The description I made above is of a time in Americas past when it was a young volatile place, full of hope and promise but also, an element of lawlessness and separation….
Black Lives Matter: Too Who?
Hello readers, I have a problem, there’s a lot of talk about cops murdering black men and extreme excessive force on black men and women, sometimes resulting in the victims death. But my problem isn’t so much with those situations -at least not in this post- but with the uproar of community outrage over these…
Songs Of The Week
In my few years on this earth I’ve been privileged to have grown up in the early days of Hip Hop, and got to hear some of the greatest music ever made, from T-la-Rock “it’s yours” to Nas’s “Rewind” and not just Hip Hop but the R&B of the 80’s and 90’s transformed the entire…
The Ghost In A Shell (Terrorist Among Us)
Who are they, What do they want, Where do they come from, When did they arrive, and How are they made? I’m referring to the Islamic Jihadist sleeper agents who walk, eat, sleep, and live among us, but have a deep seeded ghost living inside them awaiting orders to awaken, and attack their sworn enemies,…
The Teachers Are The Heroes
Why does it seem that those with the power to make a real difference rarely do, and those trying to make a change with limited resources, shoulder the blame for those who turn their back on the most vulnerable in our society – The Children? War on Education For the past 10 years, there has…