Honest Black Business Reviews (Mostly) & Bits of Personal Randomness
For well over a decade, I’ve seriously considered leaving the United States of America. It wasn’t until I’d learned of late-President Magufuli that I’d started to seriously set my sights on East Africa. Unfortunately, His Greatness is gone, and my desire to live in Tanzania is gone, too.
I didn’t learn about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela until 2013, when her ex-husband, Nelson Mandela, died. Because the latter’d died in December, and World AIDS Day is December 1, I based that week’s historic tribute on Nelson Mandela’s role in the establishment of World AIDS Day; that’s how we get down at Wo’se.
Contact your senators to oppose Jeff Sessions’ Attorney General installation. The idea of calling these important folks makes some of us nervous or fearful. I get it. I’ve been there. In fact, I’m still nervous when calling politicians’ offices, but I suck it up and do I it. Now, I’m askin’ YOU to suck it up and do it.
Nearing the conclusion of The Boondocks’ first season episode, “Return of the King” –after King’s vitriol– every African American NBA player refused to play, citing full troop withdrawal from Iraq as their demand. The possibility of that happening seemed a bit idealistic, and still does, but that scene comes to mind, along with the remembrances of Muhammed Ali, John Carlos, and Tommy Smith — folks who put it all on the line to honor their political belief — when I see Colin Kaepernick on bended knee.
