I wasn’t enamored with Major League Baseball’s opening day ceremonies where the opposing teams grasped a black ribbon and knelt to one knee as Black Lives Matter was emblazoned on the scoreboards and...
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TheDCVoice
It’s Time to Stop Open Season on Blacks
On February 26, 2012, Travon Martin was stalked and shot to death for just going to the store. Three years later, the world grieved with shock on June 18, 2015, as 9 members of The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...
I’m not a person of color – I’m a Black man
I recently had a conversation with someone I hold in high regard. We have known each other all our life. He recently looked at me with a deep scowl and said “I’m sick and tired of this person of color crap...
Do Black Lives Really Matter?
August 9, 2020 Seven shots rang out, a half dozen or so police cars, detectives, ambulances, and a fire truck rolled up a block away. Knowing immediately that another shooting had taken place mere yards away – it...
What the Hell was WRC Thinking? – Even Fox got it Right!
Imagine my dismay, anger, and contempt as I was switching through the local stations to see the coverage and discussions leading up to the caisson drawn coffin of John Lewis crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, only to...
John Robert Lewis (1940-2020)
One of the last images of John Lewis was taken when he made his way to Lafayette Square to be a part of the Black Lives Matter movement. In the middle of his cancer treatment, this man who devoted his life to civil...
The Militarization of the Police Force and The Black Panther Party
Maybe we can look back to December 8, 1969, as the day the police decided to militarize itself against black people. There’s an Opinion piece on the Los Angeles Times website that pronounces that “50 years...
Please, Sir … a Call for Mom – Enough is Enough!
There are two images that continue to haunt me when watching George Floyd’s life drain away under the knee of a sadistic policeman. It’s the words Floyd gasped as he made his final pleas for mercy;...
Systemic Racism is a Myth
That’s the conclusion the Trump administration wants you to believe. Well, here’s a hint. Take a look at the picture above. We need to be more than a token…on the end.
Mother Sues for $100 Million
NBC News reported that Kenethia Alston, mother of slain Marqueese “Queese” Alston, filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the police department and the officer involved. Visit the NBC New...
Goodbye Wes!
Amidst the protests over the death and memorial of George Floyd, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a country seemingly on the brink, a Washington DC sports icon and legend passed away. Wes Unseld, who anchored the center...
The Vindication of Colin Kaepernick
When Colin Kaepernick took a knee on September 1, 2016, the sports world and conservative media threw a conniption about the irreverence of a young Black man exercising his First Amendment right of free speech by...
What Change Looks Like
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