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Welcome to the first episode of the Blackitics podcast. Weekly, co-hosts Kwaisi France, Richard Hazel, Dr. Bamidele Olatobosun, and Walter Shelton promote their own unique political views by suggesting worthwhile negotiations the black community should engage in, laws and policy of interest to black people, and what effective resistance to...
I have discussed before how the stock market tends to do better under Democratic Presidents. We’ve had one term of President Trump and here we are hoping a deal for stimulus can be reached to help out struggling businesses and workers due to a pandemic that surely would be killed...
Michelle Krupa’s article “America is changing. Bigoted slurs, immigration bans and racist rallies can’t change that” is a fascinating look at how far we’ve come in America from our first census in 1790 until the present day when it comes to immigration, sexual orientation, and minority business ownership, representation...
During the Obama Administration, Democrats experienced a net loss of 1,042 state and federal posts, This is including congressional and state legislative seats, governorships, and the presidency. Democratic U.S. Senate seats fell from 55 to 46. The share of the House plummeted from 256 seats to 194. Democratic governerships also...
The justification for Trump’s recent ban on Muslims has been “Obama did it first.” Well, Obama didn’t do it first. In fact, Obama did no such thing. There are at least three differences between what Obama enacted, and what Trump and his supporters are claiming are actions similar to Obama’s....
We’ve got kids all across this country who never see a park … we have to change that. Because the beauty of the National Park system is it belongs to everybody.” – President Obama Obama recently took the family on a trip to Yosemite. Under towering waterfalls he spoke of the challenges...
The most recent NBC News SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 7 points, 49 percent to 42 percent buoyed by white voters. The survey of 10,604 adults, including 9,355 registered voters, was conducted online June 6–12. It has an overall margin of error of...
“The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about,” – President George W. Bush a week after 9/11 What the hell happened? You will never confuse me for a supporter of George W. Bush, but he was spot on there....
After more than 10 years of negotiations to address Iran’s nuclear policy, a nuclear deal has finally been reached. We have certainly entered a new phase in our relationship with Iran. This is the end of a long and harrowing diplomatic journey. Iran Was Our Ally Under Shah Mohammad...
I’m a regular listener to the WTF podcast by Marc Maron because, duh, I do standup comedy and like long-form conversations. When I heard that Maron landed POTUS for a talk, my curiosity was piqued. Would Maron make it about himself? Would he somehow bring up Lorne Michaels (as he...