I was noodling around on Facebook today when I saw a link to an article from the Associated Press, “Only black reporters allowed in Georgia mayoral race event.” The AP is one of the less biased sources of news out there, possibly because it’s the source for many other news media, so I’m inclined to take the piece at face value. So here’s what happened: Last night, a bunch of people (all black, from the way the article reads) went…
Note: This post was originally published on my author blog on 15 January 2016. I recently stumbled across an article on Gateway Pundit titled, “Tavis Smiley: On Every Leading Economic Issue Black Americans Have Lost Ground Under Obama.” In it, the author, citing sources without linking to them, states that, for various recent time periods: Minority household income has fallen by nine to ten percent. Non-white families’ net worth has fallen by around 20% while white families’ net worth has…
Note: This post was originally published on my author blog on 20 November 2015. This photo, captured at a MARTA station in Atlanta by Redd Desmond Thomas, recently went viral. The photographer overheard the woman in the red coat ask her husband to help this earnestly dressed young man with his tie. The husband, likely used to his wife telling him what to do, patiently bent and showed the young man how to tie a tie. This random act of…