PinnedMember-onlyEngland, In The Age Of Brexit, Is As Violently And Virulently Racist As Ever.The events of Sunday and Monday fully confirm what we Black Brits have always known; when we win, we are English, but when we lose, we are monkeys, who should be sent back to our respective jungles. In the last four weeks, over the course of the recently completed European…Racism5 min read
PinnedMember-onlyThe Poorest in Society are Not Worth Saving.Despite the yawning chasm between the haves and have nots and the perpetual gaslighting of the poorest in our midst, why do the poor keep voting against their interests? In 2006, not long before the subprime mortgage episode and fourteen years before the global pandemic, Three employees of a major…United Kingdom10 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·PinnedMember-onlyBarack Obama: A Promised Land ReviewIn William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’ magnum opus, the souls of Blackfolk, the preeminent African American scholar of the 20th century, writes of a double consciousness, the sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of the world that…A Promised Land7 min read
PinnedMember-onlyThe greatest book ever written on Oratory.Ever Since I had a debating contest at the Speakers’ corner in Hyde park, London in January 2011, I have had the privilege of reading several books by a number of classical authors on the subject of rhetoric and oratory at the British Library. After my performance (handily won by…3 min read
19 hours agoMember-onlyA United Working Class Is The Greatest Nightmare of The British Ruling ClassAnd this is why we are locked into the fight our lives… It wasn’t for nothing that Britain’s first woman Prime Minister referred to the trade unions as the ‘enemy within’. Such was the fear of the unions that the British state deployed an army of spies to undermine their…Unions4 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyVagina: The Centerpiece of The 2022 Mid-Term ElectionsNow who would have thought? These days, nearly everyone is obsessed with the female genitalia. And when I say nearly everyone, I am referring to the Supreme Court of the United states, the Republican party, white evangelicals, Catholic priests, Fox News, Donald Trump, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk and…Women4 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyAre Palestinians Children of a Lesser God?When will the world rise up and condemn Israel for its multiple atrocities? A few days ago, 16 Palestinian babies were killed by an Israeli airstrike. As expected, the world said and did nothing. There was a time that widespread condemnation of Israel atrocities used to be the thing, but…Genocide4 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyNaomi Osaka’s Crying Out For Help and No one’s Listening…My two cents Naomi Osaka is easily the most accomplished tennis players of her generation. At 24, she has won 4 grandslam titles along with several other titles on the circuit. Unlike the great female tennis heroines of the past, she has never been afraid to nail her colours to…Mental Health3 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyCats are Far More Intelligent and Charming Than Dogs….And yet another unpopular opinion. Dogs practically invented the term ‘charm offensive’. Far more than any other animal that walks the earth surface, these creatures have found a way to our hearts. Try going on Instagram these days, you will find a billion pages dedicated to the specie that has…Cats3 min read
Published in An Injustice!·6 days agoMember-onlyBrittney Grinier Is a Painful Reminder of The Perils of Travelling While BlackRead on…. — It’s old news that Brittney Grinier has been jailed for nine years for the crime of ‘drug smuggling’ in Russia. Make no mistakes about it: Grinier’s jailing was a politically motivated move by the Russian leader who is clutching at straws. …Travel4 min read
