The “Usual Suspects”: Cops, Drugs, Guns, Gangs, and White People — Chicago’s major (“mainstream”) media all report that this just past, unconscionably deadly, July Fourth weekend recorded up to eighty-eight people shot, including as many as fourteen killed, across this troubled city’s mostly black South and West Sides. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) reports that from Friday the 2nd through early…

In 1976, after finally winning his first Grammy for “Best Album,” folk songster Paul Simon gave one of the most astounding acceptance speeches of all time. After thanking his fans, his producers, fellow musicians and singers, musical engineers… and even his parents, he then said: “But most of all I…

Proposes Law to Finally End It and Pay Black People for Services Rendered — We can’t let [the failed coup d’état] go because it directly connects with our legacy of racism and hate in this country that stems from the genocide of the indigenous Americans and the enslavement of African Americans. …

The First One was the 400-Year-Long War and Not Quite Total Extermination of Native Americans — Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. They do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing, already given, and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And…

Most “white” people believe (or are open to the idea) that black people are more “simian” than actual or full homo sapiens sapiens — This disgraceful attack is not a dog whistle but a bullhorn of incendiary racist and antisemitic bile, spewed out for the sole purpose of intimidating and sabotaging a lawful, legitimate, fact-based investigation. These ugly, hateful attacks on our judicial system must be universally condemned.

This race is all about “race” — the city’s white supremacist, Trump-loving police union versus the black-dominated teachers’ union. — Image: https://wgnradio.com History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes. — Mark Twain Four years ago, Lori Lightfoot was overwhelmingly elected as Chicago’s first black female and openly gay mayor. She pulled off this amazing feat by appealing directly to Chicago’s black South and West sides, and by promising to…

He’s the Colin Kaepernick of the 6th Grade — Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one…

A ‘dirty little secret’ — Hip-hop artists have expressed strong critiques of black police officers. In its notorious song “Fuck the Police” the group NWA describes black officers as being tougher on black men to “show off” for the white cop. The fact that black men absorb stereotypes about other black men does not mean…