Tag: news to me
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Cecil B. Moore Mural Defaced with Racist Graffiti During Black History Month

Sometime over the weekend, some asshats decided that it would be a perfectly fine idea to deface the mural of civil rights leader, Cecil Bassett Moore with racist slurs. Mind you, it’s smack dab in the middle of Black History Month. Now if you are unfamiliar with who he is aside from having a street…
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The Impeachment of Trump: (A not so b*tch-blog)

I was hesitant to talk about or post the Trump Impeachment. Even when I got the early breaking news update yesterday. I mean half of everyone on social media is either talking about this shit today and have either become political experts or are completely confused thinking that Trump will be fired tomorrow. Did anyone…
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Race Matters: A Few Steps Forward

I guess I will start off with the good stuff for now this week. There has been so much that has been trending that was simply awful, I wanted to remain hopeful and spread something good. In recent news, Cyntoia Brown received an early birthday gift, with Governor Bill Haslam granting the 30 year-old clemency.…
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White Referee Forces Black Kid to Cut Locks
Because this is already trending, it’s not really news. But today the amazing Shaun King posted a video, which has now gone viral of this high school wrestler getting his locks cut off. Well according to a white ref, Alan Maloney (whose had prior incidents with racism, substance abuse and assault) they were not in…
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President 45 to Cut Food Stamps
HOT OFF THE PRESSES!!! So this morning while on my way to work, I was preparing to do some crazy blogging! However during my breakfast and coffee ritual, I saw something about President Trump cutting food stamps. As a former recipient, I thought about all the millions of others still in the system trying to…
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A Country on Fire: Gun Violence
Am I the only one pissed off and enraged about these senseless killings? First we hear word of the church slayings, then mayhem with the Marines in Chattanooga and more recently there was a shooting in a local movie theater down in Lafayette, LA! We are a country at war with itself. No matter who pulls…