Category Archives: race

Big Mouth White Boy

April 28, 2013 – 7:50 pm

The Boston Celtics had assembled the Big Three to win the NBA Championship. In 2008 my team won the title behind Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett with help from center Kendrick Perkins and the playmaking sensation Rajon Rondo. The Celtics met the LA Lakers in 2010 Finals to repeat their success. Kobe subbed [...]

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I Have A Dream

April 6, 2013 – 4:18 pm

He lives.

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

March 1, 2013 – 8:11 pm

I’m not a church-goer and if I hear church music I turn off the station, but banning Sister Rosetta Tharpe from my ears would be a sacrilege. This guitar-playing churchlady was credited with the first rock song in 1942. She was ahead of her times and everyone else too. Sister Rosetta weren’t no beauty, but [...]

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Free At Last In Mississippi

February 20, 2013 – 12:07 pm

The Mormon author of THE REDEMPTION OF COLUMBUS offered the supposition that slavery was a boon to mankind, since that particular institution established a value to human life previously sacrificed to satisfy the blood lust of pagan gods. A GOP politician echoed Orson Scott Card’s theory in the 2012 election by saying that slavery in [...]

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Pope Reverend Ike I

February 19, 2013 – 8:03 pm

The College of Cardinals is gathering in Rome to elect a new pope after Benedict XVI’s sudden resignation. The Media has been playing a guessing game about his successor, however the cardinals will most likely vote for a prelate in the present Pope’s mold, since he elevated 60% of them to higher ecclesiastical office. The [...]

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