Reginald Kaigler ― Retail Imploding! Kansas Shooter! Christie for TRUMP! Auto Subprime Loan Problem!

My commentary on the subprime loans in the auto industry, the retail industry struggling, the Kansas shooter, false claims of sexism and racism. Plus Politics. Rubio blew it! Cruz' support is limited to social conservatives. It's over! Trump is the nominee.

Akil Alleyne ― Rand Paul Supporters: Keep Calm & Carry On

Your man may be able to do more for liberty from the Senate than from the White House anyway.

 

Akil Alleyne ― Stacey Dash & the REAL Black History Month Double Standard

Why is it that white ethnic groups can celebrate their heritage without controversy, but African-Americans' celebration of their culture is considered suspect?

Reginald Kaigler — Obama's ATF GUN Scandal! PLANET X Beyond Pluto! ORAL SEX Increases Cancer Risk

My commentary on a new development in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, astronomers claiming that there may be a 10th planet in our solar system, the boom in existing home sales and a study claiming that oral sex maybe linked to an increase in cancer.

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Black Libertarian Speaks to Black America

                


 

Are black Americans ultimately fucking themselves over by voting for Democrats every time?

Is bigger government the answer to rise out of poverty? Or do we need to lead the change ourselves?

Bryant Jackson-Green ― Re-entry reform must be a policy priority in 2016

Criminal-justice reform can only be successful if policymakers work to remove barriers to employment and work.

(via Illinois Policy)

Most people expect that a criminal offender will have to serve some time in prison, both as punishment and as a means to protect public safety. But too often, people overlook the fact that the criminal-justice system in Illinois continues to punish ex-offenders who’ve already completed their prison sentences and parole – who’ve already repaid their “debt to society.” Many former offenders are locked out of jobs and stable employment even after they’ve completed their sentences.

The single biggest factor in reducing crime and poverty in communities throughout the state is employment. For criminal-justice reform to be successful, Illinois must figure out how to promote job opportunities for former offenders. The more barriers there are to work and employment, the more likely it is that ex-offenders will resort to returning to crime.

Here are three policy changes that Illinois politicians should consider in 2016.

Read the full article HERE.

Akil Alleyne ― The Oregon Incident & the Meaning of Terrorism

No, the militia stunt in Oregon doesn't qualify as terrorism, because it doesn't involve deliberate, politically driven violence against civilians.



Reginald Kaigler — NeoCons Dominate 2016 Race! Obamacare Collapsing! UnitedHealth May Exit Exchange!

My commentary on the latest controversies of the Trump campaign, how Clinton and most of the GOP are pushing for the agenda and why Obamacare is failing.

Jonathan Blanks — Reflecting on the 150th Anniversary of the Thirteenth Amendment

via Cato Institute

On this day 150 years ago, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, thus officially ending chattel slavery in the United States. America’s original sin—its birth in freedom based on human slavery—was no longer sanctioned by American law.

To get to this historical moment, the United States wrestled with its heinous contradiction in its homes, cotton fields, courtrooms, public streets, legislature...s, Bleeding Kansas and, ultimately, the many battlefields of the Civil War. The racism that supported slavery was so ingrained in our national character and economy that it cost the United States hundreds of thousands of lives.

Of course, America’s racial wounds were not healed with Abolition. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments went further to ensure racial equality (for men) before the law—on paper, anyway. Years of Jim Crow and state-tolerated white terrorism after the end of Reconstruction showed America’s laws and purported ideals could still be subverted by the enduring legacy of racism throughout the country.

Today, black Americans are far freer than ever, but still face unequal treatment by law enforcement. Certain police practices are almost exclusively deployed in black neighborhoods—the neighborhoods themselves remnants of de jure segregation—reifying not-yet-equal status for too many black Americans. And the aggressive application of our criminal laws has led to mass incarceration, which disproportionally imprisons African Americans across the country.

Read the full article HERE.

Randall Kennedy: Sellout

Author Randall Kennedy grapples with a stigma of our racial discourse that is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in black America: "selling out," or racial betrayal. The new book, which comes in the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, shows how usage of the word "sellout" bedevils blacks and whites, while elucidating the effects it has on individuals and on our society as a whole.