Browsing: Opinions

      The dream of both political parties is to control the Presidency, House, and Senate; thus, establishing a political trifecta. The 2020, Presidential Election ended the Republicans political tri-fecta and handed it to the democratic party. Newly elected President Biden laid out a bold agenda called “The build Back Better Plan.” But unlike the Republican’s iron clad solidarity governance posture, the Democratic party remains plagued with divisive strategies and moles masquerading as con-servative. Consequently, there lies Democrat’s political dilemma.

      Conventional wisdom tells schoolchildren that the US was the first modern democracy, modeled to some degree after the Greek experiment from a couple thousand years ago. 

Separating the cross and the sword

     Few people realize it, but secular humanism – the progressive crusade to improve life for all – may be the chief driving force of western civilization.

“KAVANAUGH HAS COVID”

Your body my choice?

     He was born in 1909 in the “Jim Crow/Clan” racist South! What would you like to ask this fine man? Consider in his life he has witnessed massive I.B.M. computers that took up a room, reduced to the size of your hand! He saw Jackie Robinson become the first Black man to play in the M.L.B. In the 80’s he witnessed the birth of the ubiquitous “Internet”. In the span of his 112 years he not only witnessed the first Black U.S. President and the first woman Vice President. Madam V.P. also was a Black! To witness all that you know that Mr. Brooks was a Blessed man.

      Yes! America never fails to live up to its creed of inhumane treatment of Black and Brown people including immigrants. Admittedly, we haven’t hesitated to give the countries of origin of these refugees billions of dollars to keep them from our shores. Yet knowing that these provincial governments will as usually squander the money by way of internal theft and a plethora of crooked schemes.

     Elections matter. Right now, instead of more judges hand-picked by right-wing legal activists and their corporate allies, President Biden is making good on his promise to bring greater diversity to our federal courts. Biden is naming far more brilliant Black judges and women judges than any other president – including Barack Obama. 

     It is both a challenge and an opportunity for leadership in the Biden Administration, Congress, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, along with the private sector address to effect policies and practices that reverse the nation’s still-growing racial wealth gap. Tried and true wealth-building tools like targeted homeownership and expanded small business investments together would bring sustainable and meaningful changes to those who historically have been financially marginalized.