My Two Cents

Black Americans make up 12% of the general population in America so why do they make up over 40% of the State prison population  and 60% of Federal prison population? Why are minorities the primary targets of the war on drugs? Much of this discrepancy can be traced to practices such as racial profiling. The assumption that minorities are more likely to commit drug crimes and that most minorities commit such crimes will prompt a disproportionate number of investigations, and therefore, arrests of minorities. Drug arrests are easier to accomplish in impoverished inner-city neighborhoods than in stable middle-class neighborhoods, so the insistence of politicians on more arrests results in vastly more arrests of poor, inner-city blacks and Hispanics.   Blacks are not only targeted for drug arrests. They are also 59 percent of those  convicted  of drug offenses and, because they are less likely to strike a favorable plea bargain with a prosecuto...

The original statue of Liberty gifted by the French to America was not the stern-faced green Roman looking woman that you see today holding a tablet and a torch. The original and first Statue of Liberty was a Black woman holding the broken shackles of slavery. She was refused on the notion that the black statue would be a constant reminder of the liberty that the slaves earned, from successfully fighting in the American Civil War. The true Black Statue of Liberty remains rejected, forgotten and lost in broken fragments of Black history. The statue of Liberty that stands today, that so many American’s love and proudly boast, that appears on all sorts of merchandise, in movies, and is the most recognized woman worldwide, is a colossal lie. Every good magician will tell you that the best way to hide something is to have it in plain sight. Undoubtably, a vast amount of important Black history – such as this – has been hidden from us all both Black and White. French historian Edouard ...

Loose Lips Sink Ships: Beneath the Surface of Hornblower Cruises, Allegations of Racism and Intimidation Threaten Its Public Image  By  Andrew Scot Bolsinger Wednesday, May 14 2014 Comments  MIKE KOOZMIN Former Alcatraz security/guest services worker Ayo Jiboku in front of the Hornblower Cruises boat at Pier 3 .       cruises For the thousands of tourists who streamed past his podium in front of Pier 33, Ayo Jiboku considered himself an ambassador. The broadly smiling face under the security cap could greet visitors in one of the four languages he spoke, welcoming them as they arrived to tour Alcatraz. Jiboku's energetic disposition made him popular with fellow employees and the hundreds of tourists who filled out cards praising him. Jiboku spent four and a half years working security for Alcatraz Cruises — a subsidiary of Hornblower Cruises and Events Inc. — the company that ferries tourists back and forth t...