Higher Learning

Stuck on Stupid. Heard that from a child… what wisdom they possess. Collectively we are stuck… I loved the movie Belly when it came out. Mostly because the cinematography was exceptional. The story was a stretch (at best) and another movie about hustlers changing their lives didn’t really excite me. But, there was a scene [...]

Table Talk 1: Negativity

I was sitting there wondering what to make our first table talk subject and I couldn’t come up with something yet. All of a sudden inspiration hit me. There is always a lot of negative information out there today.
Listen to the news. There is always something wrong or someone killing somebody, obesity statistics, things that [...]

Obama wins South Carolina and other thoughts…

This particular democratic race is turning out to be something crazier than I imagined. I for one would never have thought it would shake out the way it has been thus far. Incase you didn’t know, Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton and John Edwards to win the state of South Carolina.
What is surprising isn’t so [...]

The Round Table Organization

There has been so much going on its hard to keep abreast of everything including this spot. This is not to say that it has been neglected thus far. Not at all.
Here are some of the things we’ve been working on:
The Round Table Organization is finally a reality. As of now there are only a [...]

the right thing, the wrong thing, no thing

There is a recent ideology circulating America regarding race relations. It’s basic premise is that the way to eliminate racism is to cease discussing it. It is an interesting, albeit flawed ideology. The assumption is that racism is merely an ember being fanned by fanatics who refuse to let it die and play the “race [...]

Martin Luther King Day

Dr. King deserves all the respect and accolades that he gets. It definitely cannot be over emphasized. I like to wonder what things would be like if he were still alive. What he’d think of what we’d become since his time.
I am sure he would be proud of how far we have come and by [...]

Why there needs to be change

Some say that America has lost its brain. I’d like to submit that we have lost our hearts. Sure, one could pull out statistic after statistic to show that we are getting lower test scores, our teenagers are disconnected from the real world, college students don’t even know the basic tenets of history and grammar [...]

Indicting the Black Athlete of Today

You know about Elgin Baylor. You’ve seen his records being broken. Maybe you know that in the 61-62 NBA season he averaged 38.3 points to go with 18.6 rebounds. Such numbers are eye popping but there is more to this man than that. You may not know that Elgin was a United States Army Reservist [...]

And so it begins

It hasn’t been but a mere three days since the New Hampshire primary and well, there has been so much “drama” surrounding these events that my head threatens to explode trying to keep track.Then a close friend pointed me to this article. To follow along with what I am about to say, it would be [...]

Consciousness

“We gotta make a change…It’s time for us as a people to start makin’ some changes. Let’s change the way we eat, let’s change the way we live and let’s change the way we treat each other.You see the old way wasn’t working so it’s on us to do what we gotta do, to survive.” [...]