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Stephon "Starbury" Marbury on TV – It's Not Pretty
Former Celtics player and free agent Stephon “Starbury” Marbury is on TV. You heard right. Starbury has pulled off his shirt, bleached his teeth and joined the rising popularity of Justin tv. And yes, it’s a bit like watching a train wreck and a provocative single-camera born again Christian ministry. Starbury has basically set up…
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NYC Homeless Provided with One-Way Ticket Out
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of NYC has a solution to the city’s homeless problem. He wants to provide a one-way ticket out. He wants to send those worrisome, burdensome people who are victims of unaffordable housing, mental illness and the like, out of the city by any means necessary. I’m talking train, plane or bus and…
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Has Schwarzenegger Lost His Mind?
While Obama, Gates and Crowley prepare to knock back a brewsky and solve American race relations, Governor Schwarzenegger is out in Cali acting like a complete Republican, right-wing, lost-his-mind, somebody-slap-him-into-the-middle-of-next-week gangster. I understand my home away from home state of California is under some mammoth budgetary pressure, but Schwarzenegger’s recent veto and budget cuts look…
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Michael Jackson's Death: Addiction or Dr. Conrad Murray?
The news is out: Michael Jackson’s on-site physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, administered the drug Propofol that killed the King of Pop. So now what? Most of us figured this out the day of Michael’s death anyway. I don’t know about you, but I really don’t care. I know that may sound insensitive or unAmerican [you…
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Race, Beer and an Unresolved Nation
It’s official. Skip Gates wants to move on from the drama of last week’s arrest. And honestly, so do I. Gates is thankful for Obama’s controversial support, but he realizes it’s not about him. It’s about something much larger. Black men under siege. Or for many, the overwrought illusion that black men are under siege. …
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The Police and the Black Imagination
What are the Massachusetts cops talking about? What are these American naysayers afraid to admit? The Massachusetts Police Association actually said the only thing stupid in the Gates incident was Obama’s comment that the Cambridge Police’s tactics were stupid. Folks, it’s not rocket science or even quantum physics. Racial profiling exists. Whether one is middle-class…
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Obama Admits Racial Profiling Has Gone Amok
Let’s be clear about something. Most African-Americans do not wake up in the morning looking for racism. Most African-Americans don’t begin their days with a shower, a coffee, and then a calculated plan to seek out racist activity. It usually comes to us. Packaged in institutional and historical bravado or endearing quietness. We’re the ones…
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When is The Right Time for Black Men to React?
It’s the day after the crazy surrounding Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ arrest. The charges have been dropped and Dr. Gates has provided a full account of his so-called “tumultuous” run-in with the Cambridge police department. However, one thing keeps nagging at me. One of TheRoot’s most avid readers, KDOG, posted an intriguing comment yesterday. He…
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Cashing in on Michael J
I’m a skeptic when it comes to people and their good intentions. With that said, what’s up with folks cashing in on Michael Jackson two weeks after his overdose? First, Daddy Joe was promoting his new record label at the BET Awards a few days after his celebrity-son dies. Then there were articles written everywhere…
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Obama and His Wishful Preaching
I love President Obama. And the no-excuses speech he delivered to the NAACP convention yesterday was radical and amazing. I have to admit: I refrained from grinning whenever Obama broke into “black preacher talk”. Everyone knows the man was born into a white family in Hawaii and black preacher talk wasn’t an everyday occurrence, but…
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