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November 10, 2016

About Your Acceptance Speech Donald Trump

The 2016 presidential election cycle was long and tiring. For roughly two years we’ve been campaigned at by numerous hopefuls vying for our vote by extolling their vision of the United States with them behind the Resolute desk. Above all contenders, you, Donald Trump prevailed as the president-elect and recently gave your 15-minute acceptance speech in anticipation of becoming the 45th president of the United States of America. Let’s talk about your acceptance speech. More specifically, let’s talk about something you said in the beginning of the speech. “Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division,...

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Commentary / Lunacy / Mental Slavery / Race Relations

January 10, 2016

RZA is Hypocritical, Wrong, and Dangerous on Police Brutality and Black Fashion

If you put a camera in someone’s face, you never know what you’ll get. RZA has long been respected in Hip Hop and music for his position at the head of the Wu Tang Clan. That respect is being tested after RZA made some very controversial remarks in a Bloomberg interview when questioned about the Black Lives Matter movement. “When you think about some of the brothers who are being brutalized by the police, you also got to have them take a look, and us take a look , in the mirror, at the image we portray. If I’m a...

will is everything - coming out experiment

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Commentary / Culture

July 16, 2015

Coming Out As Gay Experiment gets YouTuber spit in his face

YouTuber Alan Sinclair, who runs the channel Will Is Everything, walked onto a college campus and started telling strangers he was gay. He isn’t. That was the experiment: not a debate, not a protest, not a panel discussion. Just a man, a camera, and a simple statement dropped into the laps of whoever happened to be nearby. What followed was an unscripted cross-section of where America actually stands. Not where it says it stands in polls, not where politicians pretend it stands in speeches. Where it stands when a real person is in front of you, saying something real. The...

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Commentary

June 2, 2015

Chester Hanks, Using the N-word is Not All Love

Chester Hanks aka Chet Haze, son of beloved actor Tom Hanks, says he can say whatever he wants. More specifically, Haze is referring to the N-word. In a recent video posted to his Instagram account, he says “can’t no one tell me what I can’t say” after trying to link his insensitive and ignorant defiance to Hip Hop as he defines it. The accompanying text clarifies what he means and goes on to justify his use by trying to say that it’s a term of endearment for him and even invoking the constitution. If I say the word nigga I...

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Commentary / Twitter

January 12, 2015

Top 5 Twitter Hashtag Fails by Brands of 2014

Twitter is a wonderful yet harsh world. The benefits are many for people, movements, brands, and marketers. It can expand the potential range of your voice and the message you are trying to deliver. It’s a media where the usual controls of what we see and hear aren’t effective. Brands trying to navigate that sea of online reality can win big or fail miserably. This is about failing miserably because this is the Internet and fails are golden. A common hashtag on Twitter is #nofilter because the Internet can be brutally honest. A brand trying to capitalize on the potential of...