He Said The Quiet Part Out Loud — I stumbled across an article titled “Top 10 Most Racist Presidents” by Jeffrey Kass, which I found most enlightening. I started reading it to compare to my list, admittedly disappointed that Thomas Jefferson didn’t make his Top 10. I was amazed at what I learned about several Presidents, and the…

Three Incidents Of Towing Cars With People Inside — On June 1, 2023, an SUV was severely damaged when it crashed into a tree. The vehicle was suspected to have been stolen. A 16-year-old boy with non-fatal injuries was found a short distance away, taken to a local hospital, and later arrested. …

Two Groups Cancel Conventions Due To Political Climate — Ron DeSantis says he's for freedom; people are now exercising their Constitutional right to be free of DeSantis and his policies. It started with three groups issuing travel advisories warning their constituents to avoid Florida. The NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and Equality Florida are those…

16 Quotes From The Religious Leader — I've been critiqued recently for speaking ill of the dead in a recent story on Jim Brown and not speaking ill enough of the deceased (Tina Turner). I'm taking a different tact with Pat Robertson, the White Evangelical leader that founded both the Christian Broadcast Network and Regent University. …

Stand Your Ground Sounds More Like The "Casual Killing Act" — In 1669, America's first enduring English Colony in America, Virginia, passed the Casual Killing Act meaning that if you happened to kill an enslaved person while correcting them, there would be no penalty. "And if any slave resist his master, or owner, or other person, by his or her order, correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction, it shall not be accounted felony; but the master, owner, and every such other person so giving correction, shall be free and acquit of all punishment and accusation for the same, as if such accident had never happened. And also, if any negro, mulatto, or Indian, bond or free, shall at any time, lift his or her hand, in opposition against any Christian, not being negro, mulatto, or Indian, he or she so offending, shall, for every such offence, proved by the oath of the party, receive on his or her bare back, thirty lashes, well laid on; cognizable by a justice of the peace for that county wherein such offence shall be committed." — The Casual Killing Act of 1669

Now That He’s Cornered, He Might Do Anything — You can’t know who someone is without knowing where they’ve been. It’s telling that Ron DeSantis recently passed a law making revealing his travel records and who he meets with illegal. Almost every state, including Florida, has a Sunshine Law requiring government officials to disclose meetings and travel when conducting…

Eight Months Pregnant And Lynched For Complaining About Her Husband's Lynching — Depending on the date you choose, slavery ended either on January 1, 1863 (the Emancipation Proclamation), April 9, 1865, when the Civil War Ended, June 19, 1865, when word got to Texas (Juneteenth), or December 6, 1865, when the 13th Amendment was ratified. Ironically it was Georgia, where Mary Turner…

Is It Positive Action Or Distraction? — Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday, was a long time in the making. Actually becoming one came in an instant. Legislation to recognize Juneteenth was first introduced in 1997 by Barbara-Rose Collins (D-MI). A resolution was passed in the House and the Senate, and a piece of paper was issued. Satisfied…

Her Unexplained Death That None Of Her “Friends” Have Knowledge Of — "It's impossible to get the injuries that she had from one fall," — Michelle Graves. Tamla Horsford was a 40-year-old married mother of five. We don't usually speak of 40-year-olds in the past tense, but here we are. Tamla attended a "Football Moms" adult sleepover with seven other women. Some attendees described it as "female only," yet three men were present, including the boyfriend of…