So, apparently, I’ve got “Twitter” beef with comedian Darren Knight, AKA “Southern Momma” today because he actually responded to my comment on his Facebook post. First and foremost let me say that I said what I said and je ne regrette rien. I’m not like the Black Panther Party or anything, but if I hear […]
Quaker Oats announced this week that it was retiring the Aunt Jemima brand to end it’s ever-persistent racial undertones forever! The far-left danced in the puddles of the far right’s tears and so continued but also heightened the racist arguments on social media. But little did any of us know, Quaker is lying to ALL […]
Posted on February 11, 2013by The Myrtle Beach Diva So now that we’ve had a brief history of African Americans in politics, let’s take a closer look at the progression of the black race as a whole. In the early 1900’s Jim Crowe laws or Democratic color codes had taken almost all of the wind out the […]
Posted on February 11, 2013by The Myrtle Beach Diva Before the discovery of the historical marker pictured in my previous post , I had no clue that there were black politicians before Jim Clyburn. After taking a closer look into the history I also noticed the trend that the Republican Party had started by manipulating the black […]
Seven years later, I found this piece that I wrote for my first blog RasinEmReal has very significant purpose and insight to the happenings of today. If you wonder why we riot, if you don’t understand why we protest, this doesn’t explain it all, but it should bring it home.
For a few years now I have boycotted the Superbowl and NFL football as a whole. At first, it was a personal reason, but after watching reactions to Collin Kaepernick’s protest of the National Anthem, it became entirely different for me. My protest is now on several levels and too many for me to go […]
It happened. The state of Alabama made abortion a felony punishable by life in prison. Many people are baffled by it, but brace yourselves because nearly all the Red States in the U.S. are prepared to follow suit. But it’s imperative that we understand that this is not random nor is it happenstance. This has […]
With the highly anticipated upcoming release of The Lion King remake this summer a huge announcement just came out of Hollywood that is helping us finally make sense of why we haven’t been able to access some of our favorite childhood characters. Here’s an example. If you were wondering why shows like Luke Cage and […]
Imagine watching a tragedy unfold in your area. Instinctively you reach for your phone to check your social media to see if maybe there’s better news or more recent information on what’s happening. You pull your Facebook and find that it’s “down”. You switching to Instagram and it’s “down” too. Surely not Twitter right? There’s […]
Leave it to Florida to have a man killed by a direct descendant of the Velociraptor that also happened to be his pet. Alachua County Fire and Rescue Department reported to the Gainesville Sun that the victim of this deadly attack, whose name is being withheld at this time, was breeding the birds. […]