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….