Editorials

Editorials

Silver Spoon

October 13, 2022 Carma Henry 0

     Being born with what many call a silver spoon in your mouth is not all the glamour and glitz it is made out to be. If you keep up with the gossip from England, you very well know that the now “King” Charles had a soiled relationship with the media. His marriage to Lady Diana and affair with the now “Queen” Camilla (explain that one) were played out for the world to see and speculate. His son, Prince Harry and wife Princess Meghan, threw their silver spoon back with some color, “Thanks, but no thanks…” Even so, they have remained in the media with interviews and tell all books from the palace’s hired help. […]

Editorials

Sleeping on History Making Events

October 5, 2022 Carma Henry 0

     Oblivious to his surroundings and circum-stances for 20 years, I am not sure if Rip was sleep as we know sleeping to be or he was most likely simply walking around ignorant, unaware, and disenfranchised. In Spike Lee’s biography of Malcolm X, Denzel Washington gives this line: “Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok!” Whichever one that I choose to represent the total neglect of the possible progress that can be made in the state of Florida is overshadowed by the non-messaging that appeals to the Black voters. […]

Editorials

Do the Right Thing

September 15, 2022 Carma Henry 0

     Spike Lee wrote, directed, and acted in the movie, Do the Right Thing, some 30 years ago. He was trying to demonstrate that doing the right thing is not always doing what’s right. Sometimes we have the right to do something, but it is not necessarily the right thing. […]